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Dutch police are looking for armed robbers who broke into this year’s edition of TEFAF Maastricht, smashed a glass case, and forced the fair to evacuate.

The Maldives teams with design firm Waterstudio to create an innovative floating city that will house 20,000 people in a lagoon near the country's capital.

Ikea is redesigning its ultra-popular Billy Bookcase to reduce its material footprint by using fewer plastic parts and less real wood.

The long-awaited Taipei Performing Arts Center, designed by OMA, is preparing to open in Taiwan later this summer.

CitizenM will become the first major hospitality group to open a hotel in the metaverse when it enters The Sandbox in coming weeks.

Blue Bottle Coffee opens a blue-toned café in Japan designed to awaken the senses, and other news.

Takashi Murakami curates an edition of the Outsider Art Fair in a vast New York pop-up space, and other news.

The New York Public Library unveils a pristine renovation of an overlooked branch. Though the New York Public Library is perhaps best known for its Stephen A Schwarzman location on Bryant Park, the striking renovation of the neighboring Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library is giving the Beaux-Arts building a run for its money. The $200 million transformation, overseen by Mecanoo and Beyer Blinder Belle, includes 180,000 square feet of space with additional public seating areas, a whole floor ded...

WeWork founder Adam Neumann receives an enormous exit package totaling $445 million, and other news.

Thomas Heatherwick’s maligned will reopen with new suicide prevention measures.   The maligned Thomas Heatherwick–designed Vessel is reopening to the public with new restrictions intended to prevent suicides after three young adults took their own lives there over the past year. One of the signature attractions of the massive Hudson Yards development, the Vessel closed off public access in January after a 21-year-old man wanted for questioning in a deadly stabbing in Texas jumped to his...