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UK Art, architecture and travel

Let Wallpaper* guide you through the worlds of art, design and architecture in UK - and discover where to go and what to see when you travel to UK.

London’s loveliest bakery, bistro and blow-dry bar gives new meaning to immersive beauty

'15 for 150': leading artists mark 150 years of the London Underground

By Rosa Bertoli Last updated 28 October 22
A Hampstead home by Groves Natcheva brings art deco into the 21st century

By Ellie Stathaki Last updated 28 October 22
Silver lining: Guard Tillman Pollock trace 25 residential projects over 25 years

By Harriet Thorpe Last updated 28 October 22
Tales from the crypt: Dow Jones Architects refurbishes a Hawksmoor icon

By Nicola Fox Hill Last updated 28 October 22
Back to school: Asif Khan and AHEC collaborate on new school playground

By Giovanna Dunmall Last updated 28 October 22
Gone shopping: how Oxford Street’s east end is changing fast

By Ellie Stathaki Last updated 28 October 22

Coffey Architects redesigns an apartment in a former school house in London

Timber tricks and decluttering techniques characterise this clever Clerkenwell conversion

By Harriet Thorpe Last updated 28 October 22
Frida Escobedo is the first solo woman since Zaha Hadid to design a Serpentine Pavilion

By Elly Parsons Last updated 28 October 22
McGonigle McGrath’s County Down compound named RIBA House of the Year

In Northern Ireland, Belfast-based McGonigle McGrath has refined a former farmstead into a family home through a series of edits and additions made with restraint and clarity

By Harriet Thorpe Last updated 28 October 22

Smiljan Radic to design the 2014 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion

By Ellie Stathaki Last updated 28 October 22
London’s brutalist Balfron Tower is brought back to life

By Jonathan Bell Last updated 28 October 22
John Smart Architects create a residential redesign of a Victorian Manor outhouse

By Helen Berg Last updated 28 October 22
BuckleyGrayYeoman adds new layers to a 1920s building in east London

By Harriet Thorpe Last updated 28 October 22
Clerkenwell Design Week 2014: contemporary design meets historic architecture

By Rosa Bertoli Last updated 28 October 22
A piece of history: residential sales about to launch at the BBC’s former home

By Sara Sturges Last updated 28 October 22

David Gill Gallery and ZHA pay tribute to Zaha Hadid at Masterpiece London

By Ellie Stathaki Last updated 28 October 22
Contract work: Aram expands London flagship with commercial showroom

By Sara Sturges Last updated 28 October 22
Clerkenwell Design Week 2013: the highlights

By Jessica Klingelfuss Last updated 28 October 22

In a time disconnection, friendship and community comes first for YMC

Key funding secured for Feilden Fowles' Yorkshire Sculpture Park visitor centre

By Ellie Stathaki Last updated 28 October 22
Make Architects’ London Wall high walk weaves through layers of architectural history

By Harriet Thorpe Last updated 28 October 22
Piece corps: Wallpaper* and Sotheby’s join forces to reveal what great design is made of

By Hugo Macdonald Last updated 28 October 22
British values: Hugh Broughton Architects' redevelopment of the Henry Moore Foundation

By Charlotte Jansen Last updated 28 October 22
Clerkenwell London opens as a multifaceted design destination

By Henrietta Thompson Last updated 28 October 22
Silicon skyscraper: MAKE’s Atlas Building to be highest in London’s Tech City

By Harriet Thorpe Last updated 28 October 22

Heatherwick Studio's Coal Drops Yard in Kings Cross to open in October

By Ellie Stathaki Last updated 28 October 22
Green light for Heatherwick Studio’s Coal Drops Yard in Kings Cross

By Ellie Stathaki Last updated 28 October 22
Paul Cocksedge designs light installation for COS Kings Cross store opening

By Sujata Burman Last updated 28 October 22