Stories by Alice Morby
Les Halles to reopen as glass-roofed cultural centre and shopping complex
Neri&Hu bases Shanghai burger restaurant on 1950s diners
Asif Khan adds elevated wooden play area to east London primary school
TDO adds boxy plywood-framed extension to old Windsor cottage
Quinn Architects renovates apartment in London’s Brutalist Barbican Estate
MVRDV to transform La Part Dieu shopping centre in Lyon
Manabu Okano transforms 1940s Japanese house into vintage clothing store
Shigeru Ban creates Scale pen for architectural drawing
Tom Dixon to launch Materiality range during Milan design week
China moves to prevent “oversized, xenocentric and weird” architecture
Australian scientists create ultra-thin condom from grass fibres
David Chipperfield completes Bally flagship store in Beverly Hills
Williamson Chong Architects adds “carved” facade to Toronto family home
Anish Kapoor receives exclusive rights to blackest black in the world
Patrick Norguet gives “truly novel” makeover to McDonald’s in Paris
Kengo Kuma’s V&A Dundee receives extra £20 million from Scottish Government
Google granted planning permission for new King’s Cross offices
Hawkins\Brown designs pool that will give the sense of “swimming amongst the trees”
Ayeneh Office creates angled walls and minimal interior for Iranian dental clinic
Competition: five copies of Ten Years of Margaret Howell and Eric Gill to be won
ABC Carpet & Home photographs latest campaign inside Milwaukee Art Museum
Hostem references wooden sculptures for temporary east London store interior