Carsten Höller transforms London's South Bank into a playground
Belgian artist Carsten Höller has filled the Hayward Gallery and terraces on London's South Bank with interactive installations, including a pair of spiral slides (+ slideshow). More
Belgian artist Carsten Höller has filled the Hayward Gallery and terraces on London's South Bank with interactive installations, including a pair of spiral slides (+ slideshow). More
London Festival of Architecture 2015: Turner Prize-nominated architecture collective Assemble has teamed up with British artist Simon Terrill to create full-size foam replicas of playground designs from architecture's Brutalist era (+ slideshow). More
Architect Zaha Hadid has added a range of stools and a bowl designed to resemble ice formations to her collection of furniture for London's David Gill Gallery. More
A concrete floor merges with seating inside and outside this rusted steel and glass extension to a Victorian-style house in west London, designed by local architecture studio McLaren Excell (+ slideshow). More
London Festival of Architecture 2015: London studio Systems has organised an exhibition that brings together forgotten 1960s toys including Interslot, Bird and Fish, and Marble Run (+ slideshow). More
London-based Soup Architects has completed a pair of matching artist's studios between the trees and pond of a garden in Suffolk, England (+ slideshow). More
Designer Paul Cocksedge has completed a spiral staircase featuring a garden, a library and a tea bar (+ slideshow). More
These sculptural helmets by digital art studio FIELD incorporate Oculus Rift virtual reality headsets (+ movie). More
London Festival of Architecture 2015: visitors to this London "sleeperie" can take a 10-minute nap in a colourful sling within a dimly-lit room, where soothing music is played and all technology is banned (+ slideshow). More
London Design Festival 2015: Mexican architect Frida Escobedo has added a series of adaptable mirrored platforms to the V&A museum's central courtyard, referencing an ancient Aztec city built over a lake (+ slideshow). More
Zaha Hadid has completed a new facility for the University of Oxford – a centre for studying Middle Eastern culture, conceived by the architect as a reflective tunnel suspended in space (+ slideshow). More
London studio Carmody Groarke has used timber and plastic to build a temporary exhibition space for the White Cube art gallery in the grounds of a country house in East Sussex, England (+ slideshow). More
Influenced by ecclesiastical and monastic architecture, this school building in Somerset, England features a row of brick gables that sit on top of a concrete colonnade (+ slideshow). More
Clerkenwell Design Week 2015: Danish brand Carl Hansen & Son has opened a space in London's Clerkenwell to showcase furniture by mid-century designers Hans J Wegner, Kaare Klint and Poul Kjaerholm (+ slideshow). More
Clerkenwell Design Week 2015: Swiss design studio GRUPPE has installed totems of colourful building blocks on the streets of Clerkenwell during the London district's annual design festival (+ slideshow). More
London-based architects Edgley Design used stainless-steel panels more typically applied as roofing to make this ageing Surrey house weather-tight. More
Clerkenwell Design Week 2015: Murano glass sweets provided the inspiration for this pavilion by London studio Cousins & Cousins, which features a mixture of coloured and patterned glazing (+ slideshow). More
Architecture firms Allies and Morrison and O'Donnell & Tuomey have won their bid to design a new cultural quarter at the London 2012 Olympic Park, expected to include new outposts of the V&A and Smithsonian museums. More
Slate-grey bricks applied in zigzagging rows give the walls of this London house extension a faceted texture that contrasts the smooth, pale yellow brickwork of the original property (+ slideshow). More
British artist Steve Messam has installed a weight-bearing bridge across a stream in the UK's Lake District using 20,000 sheets of bright red paper (+ slideshow). More