The Vessel, a 150ft-tall labyrinth of staircases designed by Thomas Heatherwick for New York's Hudson Yards development, is to reopen tomorrow with a raft of new security measures. The Vessel was closed in January 2021, after three people had killed themselves in less than a year by jumping from the structure. Prior to the structure having opened...

Paulo Mendes da Rocha, the Brazilian Pritzker Prize-winning architect, has died, aged 92. Mendes da Rocha had been ill with lunge cancer and passed away in São Paulo, the city in which much of his work was built. Born in 1928 in Vitoria, Brazil, Mendes da Rocha rose to prominence as part of the Paulista School of modernist architects. His work...

Ken Garland, the graphic designer who launched the ‘First Things First’ manifesto and redesigned the peace symbol, has died aged 92. Born in Southampton in 1929, Garland trained at London's School of Central Arts and Crafts before serving as the art editor of _Design Magazine_ between 1956 and 1962, published by the Council of Industrial Britain....

The architect Stefano Boeri has been appointed the curator of this year's Salone del Mobile trade fair. Boeri, who is also the president of the Triennale Milano museum, is being placed in charge of a revamped format that will include the option for visitors to the fair to buy products at discounted prices. Boeri said “The event we are working...

Lilli Hollein, the co-founder and former director of Vienna Design Week will head up MAK – Museum of Applied Arts from September 2021. “To get to head the MAK, one of the most beautiful and oldest museums of applied arts in the world with its unparalleled collection and to position it as an institution that communicates actively in manifold ways...

Maison & Object, the Paris-based design fair, has confirmed that its September 2021 edition will go ahead as planned. The fair will run from 9 to 13 September at Paris Nord Villepinte. The dates coincides with Paris Design Week, which runs from 9 to 18 September. “In order to definitively confirm the September 2021 edition, we were impatiently...