UK
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.
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The architectural innovation hidden in plain sight at Frieze London 2025
The 2025 Frieze entrance pavilions launch this week alongside the art fair, showcasing a brand-new, modular building system set to shake up the architecture of large-scale events
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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This 100-year-old private members’ club in London feels young at heart
The Sloane Club unveils a stylish new rebrand and redesign courtesy of Russell Sage Studio
By Daven Wu Published
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RIBA Stirling Prize 2025 winner is ‘a radical reimagining of later living’
Appleby Blue Almshouse wins the RIBA Stirling Prize 2025, crowning the social housing complex for over-65s by Witherford Watson Mann Architects, the best building of the year
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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‘Belonging’ – the LFA 2026 theme is revealed, exploring how places can become personal
The idea of belonging and what it means in today’s world will be central at the London Festival of Architecture’s explorations, as the event’s 2026 theme has been announced today
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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The ancient and the erotic inspire Sessions Art Club’s Frieze London 2025 pop-up
‘I think food should hum beneath the skin, like a good painting,’ founder Jonny Gent tells Wallpaper* on the opening of his temporary restaurant-cum-art-installation
By Sofia de la Cruz Published
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Somerset restaurant Osip sets the table for a different kind of art show
Chef Merlin Labron-Johnson’s Michelin-starred restaurant hosts an artist-in-residence exhibition exploring form, materiality and the poetics of place
By Sofia de la Cruz Published
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Community and culture coincide at Mount Street Neighbourhood Arts Festival
With this year’s theme focused on art and books, expect to see various literary moments around the Mayfair address
By Tianna Williams Published
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Join us on a first look inside Regent’s View, the revamped canalside gasholder project in London
Regent's View, the RSHP-designed development for St William, situated on a former gasholder site on a canal in east London, has just completed its first phase
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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The Royal College of Art has announced plans for renewal of its Kensington campus
The Royal College of Art project, led by Witherford Watson Mann Architects, includes the revitalisation of the Darwin Building and more, in the hopes of establishing an open and future-facing place of creativity
By Tianna Williams Published
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Refreshed China Tang at The Dorchester remains a love letter to 1930s Shanghai
Twenty years since it first opened, the beloved Cantonese restaurant in London has been subtly reinvigorated, pairing Haipai style with cosmopolitan decadence for milestones yet to come
By Sofia de la Cruz Published
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Power Hall’s glow-up shines light on science and innovation in Manchester
Power Hall at The Science and Industry Museum in Manchester was given a spruce-up by Carmody Groarke, showcasing the past and future of machines, engineering and sustainable architecture
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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The ultimate foodie guide to Frieze London
Get your fill of both art and food at these London restaurants, cafés, and bars in and around Frieze London 2025 (15-19 October)
By Tianna Williams Last updated
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A sculptural reimagining of hospitality takes over the Mandarin Oriental Mayfair
The Mayfair Design District has curated a tactile exploration of nature and form across the quietly sumptuous London hotel
By Sofia de la Cruz Published
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Celebrate the angular joys of 'Brutal Scotland', a new book from Simon Phipps
'Brutal Scotland' chronicles one country’s relationship with concrete; is brutalism an architectural bogeyman or a monument to a lost era of aspirational community design?
By Jonathan Bell Published
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Labombe by Trivet reinvents an unforgettable Cool Britannia hangout
Is London hospitality about to hit peak 1990s revival? The Como Metropolitan has unveiled a new dining room on the site of the former Met Bar
By Ben McCormack Published
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Wallpaper* checks in at the wonderfully unfussy Swan Inn, Fittleworth
As the night’s draw in, this cosy English inn deep in the Sussex countryside beckons
By Ali Morris Published
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The world’s largest capsule hotel opens in the heart of London
With nearly 1,000 capsules across five floors, Zedwell Capsule Hotel Piccadilly Circus promise cocoon-like calm above the city’s loudest square
By Sofia de la Cruz Published
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Ministry of Sound embraces theatrical brutalism with its new members’ bar
Studio A-nrd dresses the south London superclub’s new No Velvet Rope Society in tactile layers and stark details
By Sofia de la Cruz Published
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The best new hotels to love without reservation
Explore the best new openings in the world, from city buzz in Vienna and Macau to laid-back escapes in Thailand and India
By Nicola Leigh Stewart Last updated
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The new London restaurants to book now
This month, a modern gastropub takes root in Marylebone, Italian flair spices up Fitzrovia, and Japanese precision awaits at The Chancery Rosewood
By Ben McCormack Last updated
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Ming pays tribute to vibrant Notting Hill in a one-of-a-kind jewellery collection
To mark the 25th anniversary of Ming Jewellery, its founder releases 25 unique designs
By Hannah Silver Published
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Max Creasy on the future of architectural photography and a shift to the ‘snapshot’
A show of photographer Max Creasy’s work opens at the AA in London, asking a key question: where is contemporary architectural photography heading?
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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Riccardo Dalisi’s first UK retrospective opens at east London gallery Spazio Leone
Spazio Leone draws together six decades of the Italian visionary’s work, from whimsical coffee pots to radical community workshops
By Reeme Idris Published
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Tour this immaculately composed Islington house for an art collector who loves entertaining
An Islington house by Emil Eve Architects, on coveted Thornhill Road, combines warm minimalism and some expert spatial planning
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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The Turner Prize 2025 shortlisted artists go on show in Bradford
Nnena Kalu, Rene Matić, Mohammed Sami and Zadie Xa are in the running for the Turner Prize 2025 – here they are with their work
By Hannah Silver Last updated
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Wallpaper* checks in at Mason & Fifth, Westbourne Park
A cultural hub disguised as a hospitality concept, Mason & Fifth’s latest property in west London is ambitious, youthful and extroverted
By Sofia de la Cruz Published
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A striking restaurant now crowns Renzo Piano’s ‘glass cube’ building in Paddington
Skyscraper dining always carries a sense of glamour – and Cé La Vi delivers it at full pitch
By Ben McCormack Published