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Plans have been revealed for London's BT Tower to be transformed into a hotel by London-based studio Orms Architecture. The consultation, which took place on Monday (13 July 2026), included details of the planned overhaul of the 177m-tall tower, such as the extension of the tower’s podium buildings, a swimming pool, and a public square.The proposal also revealed the project's construction schedule – and it is sooner than you’d think. After the second consultation in July is finalised, along with

Fashion designer Jil Sander made her first foray into furniture design in 2025. Collaborating with the German furniture designer Thonet, she brought her minimalist yet innovative approach to reinterpretations of classic Bauhaus designs by Mart Stam, Marcel Breuer, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. JS Thonet ‘S411’ chair, ‘Nordic’ edition, in light caramel (Image credit: Naegele art Haris Epaminonda)Now, she has added two new designs to the resulting JS Thonet collection: the ‘S 411’ lounge chair and

It turns out that portability is the key to happy living with a projector. The old days of having a hefty machine hard-wired into the ceiling to approximate a cinematic screening room have long been usurped by compact, powerful devices that are happy to be moved from room to room depending on the occasion. XGIMI Elfin Flip Laser projector (Image credit: XGIMI)XGIMI is boosting its projector portfolio with two new products, following on from last year’s ultra-compact Vibe One. The new Elfin Flip

A Blakely Island cabin was designed for immersive forest living among the mature trees of the San Juan Islands archipelago on the Salish Sea. This corner of Washington state is rich in nature, with the particular site nestled between a glacial erratic rock and Douglas fir trees. Within this leafy setting, Wittman Estes has designed a private retreat drawing on the most basic of architectural escapes, in the tradition of Thoreau’s Walden Cabin and Le Corbusier’s 1952 Cabanon. (Image credit: Andre

All credit to We Are Rewind for taking the cult of the cassette to new and unexpected places. Not content with being amongst the first manufacturers to get back into the format back in 2022, the French company has continued to keep the compact cassette in the hearts and minds of analogue fetishists with a slew of limited editions, including the colourful Edith WE-001 and the Curtis GB-001 boombox. The dark side of the WE-001 Pink Floyd edition (Image credit: We Are Rewind)Now there’s yet another

Spiked hair, torn fishnets, safety pins pushed through skin and clothing: punk has often announced itself through the body. It is a fitting point of departure for ‘Unruly – The Body in Punk’, now on view at ARoS in Aarhus, which reconsiders the movement not simply as a sound or a style, but as a physical language of protest, in which the body became a charged site of rebellion.Bringing together more than 130 works – from photography and film to collage, installation and fashion ephemera – many o

It’s been a busy few years for Selldorf Architects, the award-winning New York practice helmed by US400 architect Annabelle Selldorf, with museum projects including The Frick, The National Gallery and The Louvre in the books or on the boards. The Clark Art Institute, a renowned museum and research institute located in Williamstown, Massachusetts, is also set to receive the Selldorf treatment, via a new 15,000 sq ft wing, slated to open in 2028. (Image credit: Design by Selldorf Architects; rende

Since Margaret Howell began her eponymous label in 1970, the designer has always favoured the timeless over ephemeral trends. ‘Consistency in authenticity’ is the brand’s tagline, and its continuing success, over half a century on, is a testament to Howell’s eye for creating a wardrobe that is built to last.She applies this same philosophy to her collaborations, which have seen her unite with other companies with a similar ethos: she has worked with heritage outerwear brand Barbour, Japanese spo

Although both open- and hard-topped versions of the new 849 Testarossa were announced together last September, Ferrari has staggered the launches, with the Spider following a few months after Ferrari allowed the media to put the hard-top through its paces on Seville’s Monteblanco circuit.Ferrari 849 Testarossa Spider (Image credit: Ferrari)Whilst a track is more in keeping with the Testarossa’s racing heritage, the Spider variant was launched in Tenerife, a very different set of circumstances t

Although Richard and Maurice McDonald only held on to their hamburger empire for 21 years (selling out to Ray Kroc in 1961), the brothers not only laid the groundwork for global fast food but pioneered the idea of architecture as signage. The first McDonald’s restaurant to showcase the Golden Arches was their second restaurant, located in San Bernadino and designed by local architect Stanley Clark Meston, a specialist in the car-focused roadside architecture that proliferated in the 40s and 50s.

Sitting among tangles of oak and Monterey pine, on the lip of a canyon in Carmel-by-the-Sea, Owl House is part art, part architecture, its rich contradictions impossible to grasp at a glance. The redwood structure looks different from every angle, emerging onto the street like a fox's den hollowed out of the brush, or perched like a massive nest from the canyon behind. Where it looms largest, however, it is also generously glazed, giving it the all-seeing gaze of its namesake. Inside, it feels e

Felice’s newest New York restaurant opens at one of Flatiron’s most privileged corners, where Fifth Avenue meets 26th Street beside Madison Square Park. Set inside a 21-storey neo-Gothic building completed in 1912, the site gives the family-run Italian brand a dining room with unusual scale, daylight from three sides and a strong connection to the street.Wallpaper* dines at Felice Flaitron, New YorkThe mood: go big and come home(Image credit: Photography: Thomas Loof. Art direction: Michael Reyn

As seen in the August 2026 ‘Creative America at 250’ issue of Wallpaper*, we pay homage to seminal American graphics.Calvin Klein’s sans-serif logo, first introduced by its namesake designer in 1968, is an exercise in simplicity and directness – a reflection of Klein’s approach to fashion, which would flourish in the 1990s (alongside designers like Helmut Lang and Miuccia Prada, his work would herald the new minimalism of the era). And, while the logo has appeared on everything from fragrance bo

The first thing you see as you enter Vibeke Tandberg’s new show is her face, twice. A monitor shows Merge (1998), a 16mm film in which the photographer has double-exposed herself onto herself. It’s a simple effect, but this low-res doubling is a synecdoche of Tandberg’s body of work: there is no one single self.Questions of identity and performativity run throughout ‘They Live’, a new exhibition at Bergen’s Kode in Tandberg’s native Norway. The show tracks Tandberg’s career, from her early photo

After eight years under the leadership of architect Stefano Boeri, the Triennale di Milano today inaugurated a new president. Vincenzo Trione, a professor of art and media history at Milan's IULM University, a columnist for Corriere della Sera and a curator of modern and contemporary art, used his first press conference to lay out his vision for what he described as a 'deeply Italian' next four years.'We are living in an age in which it is perhaps more important to ask questions than to offer an

If your summer has been a warm one, relief is at hand – La Maison du Chocolat has launched a new collection of ice creams and frozen chocolates, the perfect way to cool down and refresh those taste buds at the same time. Melt into La Maison du Chocolat's summer collection Frozen Gift Box 12 Chocolates

Beach cars are back in fashion and it’s not hard to see why. The stripped-back aesthetic of seaside-centric automobiles is the perfect intersection of nautical style and custom design. Castagna Milano’s custom Topolino Spiaggina, Fiat’s own Topolino Vilebrequin (recently updated for 2026), the closely related Citroën Ami Buggy, the revived electric Moke, the restomodded Fiat 500 Jolly Spiaggina Icon-e or even the Renault 4 JP4x4 Concept are all vying for the attention of smart seaside sets aroun

You may have heard of Cuban-born American artist Ana Mendieta (1948-1985), but how much do you know about her art? Her multidisciplinary practice encompassed sculpture, film, performance, photography, painting and drawing, but she is best known for her ‘silueta’, or ‘earth-body', works, in which she outlined her body in nature.More than 120 of Mendieta’s works are now on view in a new retrospective at Tate Modern in London (15 July 2026 – 17 January 2027), including a nude woman’s form in a tomb

Who would think a fridge could be cute and collectable? Well, Rocco’s smart fridge got that bit more exciting thanks to a limited-edition collaboration with Gohar World. The viral mini fridge company (which teamed up with New York’s renowned Kat’z Deli on a limited edition in 2025) has revealed a new version in a sleek piano-black finish, chosen to merge into any setting as a piece of furniture. Rocco, which specialises in high-tech, temperature-controlled drinks fridges, aims to make ‘every day

Like many potential disruptive technologies, Electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft were predicted, theorised, prototyped and over-hyped long before any practical solutions had even taken to the air. Emerging in parallel with concurrent disruptors like AI-driven autonomy, the eVTOL market is awash with potential players yet full-scale public services always seem to be a few years away. Archer Aviation's Midnight eVTOL aircraft (Image credit: Archer Aviation)Archer Aviation is on