A Sussex stately home is an unlikely place to find truly extravagant modernist imagery. Yet ever since 1997, Goodwood House has played host to a series of extravagantly bold sculptures, of a scale and ambition that evokes the mighty monuments of Soviet-era Russia or the fevered visions of science fiction speculators. Marking the entrance and start to the Goodwood Festival of…
A smarter match of bill and venue is hard to imagine. The 2nd Manchester International Festival opened last night with a double header of American minimalist composer Steve Reich and German electro-pop pioneers Kraftwerk at the city’s Velodrome.
See more images from the spectacular performance last night at Manchester's Velodrome
Built in the mid 1990s, the Velodrome…
What we drive in the next decade is more or less born conceptually from within the walls of the RCA, thanks to its celebrated vehicle design course that continues to produce many of the thinkers and innovators in the automotive world.
This year is no exception. If anything, the young designers have had to explore beyond the confines of what can, at times, be a rather narrow…
Every fashion week the presentation of the presentation is key and venue choices are as important as ever. The latest men's collections in Paris and Milan were certainly no exception. From Moncler Gamme Bleu's commandeering of the Piscina Cozzi to DSquared's recreation of a campsite - the venues were talked about almost more than clothes.
See a round-up of our favourite…
With mini-dwellings and public pavilions springing up everywhere (take for instance SANAA's pavilion for the Serpentine Gallery, which is currently under construction), architectural art spaces and semi-buildings are writing a new language for architects around the world.
Taking this cross-pollinatory shift between art and architecture as its cue, Vienna's Thyssen Bornemisza…