Stories by Jane Englefield
Eight homes with characterful floating staircases that appear to defy gravity
Olaniyi Studio creates “living” footwear designed to decay
Ten bookshelf staircases that add clever storage to living spaces
Victoria Yakusha designs furniture collection as homage to Ukraine
Muted material palette defines monochrome Chinese restaurant by StudioAC
Frank Gehry’s long-awaited Ocean Avenue Project in Santa Monica finally approved
Studio Noju creates intimate colourful spaces within open-plan Seville apartment
Vibrant colours define housing complex in India by Sanjay Puri Architects
Ten residential interiors framed by statement windows
Annabel Karim Kassar reconstructs Beirut house damaged in the 2020 explosion for V&A installation
Jennifer Morden creates “aspirational” mid-century house with sinister dungeon for Fresh
Lara Bohinc designs voluptuous seating collection to be “playful and a little bit sexy”
Cooking Sections and Sakiya explore importance of non-human species in joint exhibition
DZHUS designs metamorphosing Pseudo clothing collection
This week Saudi Arabia unveiled a mirrored megacity for nine million people
Formafantasma and Artek’s Cambio exhibition explores Finnish design’s link to forestry
Serpentine installation an “invitation to develop an intimacy with plants”
This week we revealed the UK’s best homes
Ten Zaha Hadid Design products that go “beyond a simple translation from sketch to object”
Emil Eve Architects retrofits own office in brutalist building in Hackney
Ten scientific inventions to reduce design and architecture’s impact on the planet
Artist Anouska Samms crafts “dysfunctional” pots from human hair