Lynk & Co, a Chinese car firm, is trying to break Europe and America through a radical approach to technology

An increasing number of designers are promoting their work through holiday rentals

If these architects and visionaries had had their way, the city would look very different

Caught between the first world war and the Great Depression, the jazz age was a period of social transformation. A new exhibition shows how women’s clothes captured the mood

There are millions of tonnes of plastic floating in the world’s oceans. But, as this table at the London Design Biennale proves, we needn’t think of it as trash

One of the most inventive young architects of his generation is working on his most important project yet. But can he fuse his playfulness with the demands of enduring design?

What a terrible design featuring the Brandenburg Gate tells us about Berlin’s charming – and very un-German – carelessness

Most houses could be spruced up with a bit of greenery but some architects have begun to embed living trees within the structure of their buildings. Jonathan Glancey branches out