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Shocking art project spotlights 'insidious' anti-homeless spikes and hostile architecture
Poster of a homeless person pierced by spkes designed to deter rough sleepers, known as hostile architecture
Homelessness

Shocking art project spotlights 'insidious' anti-homeless spikes and hostile architecture

Artist Stuart Semple covered spikes designed to stop people sleeping on the street with photos of rough sleepers in a shocking campaign to uncover ‘insidious’ designs
Why residents must, must, must have a say in the design of their communities
Architecture

Why residents must, must, must have a say in the design of their communities

Comfortable, sustainable and energy efficient: This is what the house of the future will look like
Illustration of a house
Housing

Comfortable, sustainable and energy efficient: This is what the house of the future will look like

A prestigious architecture prize is finding new ways to tackle homelessness
Homelessness

A prestigious architecture prize is finding new ways to tackle homelessness

Top 5 books on colour, chosen by Riccardo Falcinelli
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Top 5 books on colour, chosen by Riccardo Falcinelli

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BetterPod: The radical power of design, with Alice Rawsthorn and Peter Barber
BetterPod Alice Rawsthorn and Peter Barber
Housing

BetterPod: The radical power of design, with Alice Rawsthorn and Peter Barber

Can design solve homelessness, the climate crisis and racism?
Alice Rawsthorn and Peter Barber on BetterPod
BetterPod

Can design solve homelessness, the climate crisis and racism?

The Rolling Stones, Kate Bush, The Cure: Great albums’ cover stories revealed
Album cover stories: The Rolling Stones, Kate Bush, The Cure
Music

The Rolling Stones, Kate Bush, The Cure: Great albums’ cover stories revealed

Big Issue illustrator draws up more success in US award
Giovani Da Re
Art

Big Issue illustrator draws up more success in US award

Big Issue illustrator Ollie Hirst in the running for World Illustration Award
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Art

Big Issue illustrator Ollie Hirst in the running for World Illustration Award

A Big Issue-inspired design has helped a reader scoop a wood engraving prize
Wood engraving Maggie Storm
Art

A Big Issue-inspired design has helped a reader scoop a wood engraving prize

This bench is going to be at the centre of Stuart Semple’s new art show
Stuart Semple bench
Art

This bench is going to be at the centre of Stuart Semple’s new art show

Chronicler of Brexit Coldwar Steve designs exclusive Big Issue cover
Art

Chronicler of Brexit Coldwar Steve designs exclusive Big Issue cover

This LGBT bench design still excluded the homeless
Rainbow bench hostile designs
Housing

This LGBT bench design still excluded the homeless

Meet the bench curing loneliness and social isolation
The Friendly Bench
Housing

Meet the bench curing loneliness and social isolation

This competition could create homeless-friendly architecture of the future
London bench
News

This competition could create homeless-friendly architecture of the future

Hostile takeover: Who is welcome in our public spaces?
News

Hostile takeover: Who is welcome in our public spaces?