Rupal Rathore stays in Auroville and uncovers an intentional community splintered by controversy over the realisation of a decades-old masterplan.

Four designers gather for a roundtable discussion on the importance and complexities of using the word “care” to think about design.

Disegno explores Supermodels, an exhibition from Piercy&Company that highlights the pleasures of architectural model making.

BIG’s enclosure at Copenhagen Zoo prompts Kristina Rapacki to reflect on the political power of the panda.

1970s feminist architecture collective Matrix tell curator Viviane Stappmanns how they made space for women in design in this roundtable interview.

Members of All in Awe, the co-operative non-profit studio founded by Eva Feldkamp, gather for a roundtable discussion on the importance of altruism in design.

Less Gesamtkunstwerk and more 3D-simulated catalogue, the first Muji-branded hotel in Shenzhen offers Brendan Cormier a hollow experience.

Brian Hioe walks the unfinished corridors of the much-delayed Taipei Performing Arts Center, an OMA-designed building mired in local political controversy.

Disegno and the Het Nieuwe Instituut present Design Drafts #1 with this online exclusive from Andrew Pasquier on the festivalisation of nightlife design.

How new technology is threatening traditional architecture in India’s remote border region of Ladakh.

Resistance and performance at Casa do Povo, São Paulo’s historic anti-fascist Jewish community centre.

A trip into Eimear McBride’s novel Strange Hotel reveals the rich literary potential of hotel architecture.

Bulldozers are moving in to Mumbai’s chawls, but plans to replace low-cost, low-rise worker housing with high-density towers could destroy existing communities.

Inside Emeco’s home away from home, as the furniture makers overhaul an “architecturally dishevelled” 1940s former workshop in Venice, Los Angeles.

The stories East Quay, a new kind of arts and community centre designed by the Onion Collective and Invisible Studio in one of England’s most deprived regions.

With demolition underway of Tokyo’s Nakagin Capsule Tower, Aki Ishida tracks the decline of this once-futuristic landmark against Japan’s shifting gender roles.

Immersed in the surreal world of Tokyo’s pachinko arcades, Luke Caspar Pearson elaborates on the architectural complexity of Japanese medal games.

Artist Ariel Caine meets architect Dima Srouji and archaeologist Silvia Truini to discuss archaeology as a tool of colonisation and settlement in Palestine.