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The National Gallery’s £750m new wing has reignited London’s art turf war

“When should painters become old masters?” Former National Gallery director Philip Hendy put that question to then Tate director John Rothenstein almost 70 years ago. Founded in 1897 as the National Gallery’s annexe for British Art, by the 1950s Tate had developed into a gallery of modern as well as…

The Conversation · Apr 14

OPINION - The National Gallery’s new wing is bland, but the modern art going in it is the problem

For the National Gallery to expand its remit to include 21st-century art (hello, Tracey Emin) is something else

Evening Standard · Apr 11

National Gallery picks Tokyo Olympic stadium architect to design new wing

London gallery to undergo biggest transformation in its 200-year history, with Kengo Kuma’s design called ‘exemplary’

The Guardian - UK · Apr 7

The most whimsical hotel Christmas trees around the world

We round up the best hotel Christmas tree collaborations of the year, from an abstract take in Madrid to a heritage-rooted installation in Amsterdam

Wallpaper · Dec 24, 2024

New exhibition, ‘Architecture for Dogs' celebrates the human-canine bond

As a showcase of designs for dogs opens in Milan, we find out why inviting our four-legged friends into exhibitions benefits everybody.

Wallpaper · Dec 23, 2024

Minimal curves and skilled lines are the focal point of Kengo Kuma's Christmas trees

Kengo Kuma unveiled his two Christmas trees, each carefully designed to harmonise with their settings in two hotels he also designed: The Tokyo Edition, Toranomon and The Tokyo Edition, Ginza

Wallpaper · Nov 26, 2024

Kengo Kuma’s new Kyoto hotel is ‘a sanctuary of ethereal beauty’

A former ryokan inn, Banyan Tree Higashiyama Kyoto offers onsen rooms equipped with natural hot spring water, and a contemporary take on a Noh theatre

Wallpaper · Oct 2, 2024

Gulbenkian Foundation's new art centre by Kengo Kuma is light and inviting

Lisbon's Gulbenkian Foundation reveals its redesign and new contemporary art museum, Centro de Arte Moderna (CAM), by Kengo Kuma with landscape architects VDLA

Wallpaper · Aug 19, 2024

Kengo Kuma on making Tokyo Edition Ginza ‘warm, intimate, and spiritual’

The new Tokyo Edition Ginza, designed by Kengo Kuma and Ian Schrager, marks the brand’s second chapter in Japan

Wallpaper · Feb 10, 2024

Dallas' new Hotel Swexan caters to old souls and the young at heart

Hotel Swexan is a new classic character in the cultural history of Texas

Wallpaper · Dec 16, 2023