One of only three big-name female architects working in the world today, Amanda Levete, designer of the new £35 million V&A extension, says there is no mystery to the male dominance... more
Zaha Hadid lives in a pristine white pod, has sacrificed her personal life to architecture, and will brook no opposition from underlings or the establishment. Harry Mount has an audience with the newly crowned winner of the Stirling Prize... more
Serpentine Gallery co-director Hans Ulrich Obrist is now the most powerful figure in international art. Fortunately, as he tells Alison Roberts, he considers the artists to be more important... more
Not content with a multimillion-pound luxury empire and the adulation of the fashion cognoscenti, Miuccia Prada has reinvented herself as an art patron... more
Your first thought as you approach this year’s Serpentine Pavilion is “where is it?” Last year Frank Gehry erected thumping chunks of timber, and before him Rem Koolhaas put up an inflated Zeppelin. All you see now are some skinny poles and an inch-thick sheet of aluminium... more
Tim Jefferies has made a career out of dating London’s most beautiful women. Now he’s a besotted father and busy organising the coveted Serpentine Summer Party... more
Proposals by one of the world’s leading architects – exclusively revealed here – could turn the disused Commonwealth Institute into a new home for the Design Museum ... more
Architect Frank Gehry has designed the new look summer pavillion at the Serpentine Gallery in Hyde Park. He describes it as being “like an urban street”.... more
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