Phaidon Press's Blog, page 432

David Shrigley takes over Sketch

Acerbic artist brings his misfits, freaks and socially awkward characters to upscale Mayfair restaurant

How the Bauhaus houses were rebuilt

Mending bombed buildings in Germany is controversial, yet these ones are a great expression of Teutonic culture

Would you sleep in Antony Gormleys new sculpture

The British artists inhabitable sculpture has a hotel room inside it, and comes with an art market style price tag

Ten buildings changing the way we travel

The Phaidon Atlas picks out airports, ferry terminals and cable-car stations putting the bon into bon voyage

Mystery of a 50-year-old Nauman art object solved

Bruce Nauman book author Peter Plagens reveals the strange story behind infamous funk art object the Slant Step

French Pavilion pairs Jacques Tati with Jean Prouv

The French submission for the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale interrogates and gently lampoons modernism

Banksy likes blotter art, not keen on Sothebys show

The graffiti artist offers a little insight into his unauthorised London show, as well as some trippy appropriation

The Insiders Guide to Salvador

TV presenter Paula Magalhes on her favourite places as revealed in our downloadable Wallpaper City Guide

Look what Renzo Piano has squeezed into Paris

Pianos building for film company Path snakes in between the faades of the XIII arrondissement

So, is there such a thing as national architecture

OMAs Stephan Petermann, Dibdo Francis Kr and MADs Ma Yansong join us for a great debate in Venice