She said no pickles. Kate Wagner mourns the loss of garish Hamburgler decor as McDonald’s revamps itself to fit with the trend for boring, brandless spaces.

Drawn together by ArkDes, a group of architects and curators take aim at the myth of Sigurd Lewerentz, and explain why this giant of 20th-century Swedish architecture’s work was so much greater, richer and stranger in reality.

From Disegno #31, a roundtable interview with Herzog & de Meuron on the opening of M+, a Hong Kong museum in built on reclaimed land in a city at a political crossroads.

Disegno explores the architectural pleasures of a ski chalet, shot out of season.

From Disegno #25, Lauren Teixeira tries to escape from the monstrous clutches of Zaha Hadid’s Beijing Daxing International Airport.

A beautiful new wing to Copenhagen’s Rigshospitalet stands in stark contrast to the glowering menace of the existing building, as made famous in Lars von Trier’s TV series Riget.

Andrés Reisinger talks to Francesca Anderson about his latest digital design, Winter House, and why he believes reluctant designers should embrace the metaverse.

As he prepares to open a new clay performance and exhibition at 100 Bishopsgate, artist Anton Alvarez speaks to Disegno about his method.

Alison Sinkewicz explores how a series of controversial artworks from Steven Shearer revealed Vancouver’s toxic mixture of rapacious development, public art, and drug overdoses.

Felix Chabluk Smith explores the Bourse de Commerce in Paris, reimagined and restored by architect Tadao Ando and designers Ronan and Ewan Bouroullec.

Arctic researcher Lola Sheppard interviews architect Dorte Mandrup about the Ilulissat Icefjord Centre in Greenland, a visitor hub serving witness to a glacier beaten back by climate change.

Balkrishna Doshi, architect of low-cost housing for the poor in India, has expressed his delight at winning a Royal Gold Medal at the age of 94.

Benjamin Bansal and Manuel Oka explore the empty streets of Naypyidaw, Myanmar’s capital that was purpose-built by the military junta to deter protesters.

Niall McLaughlin Architects’s timber library for Magdalene College, Cambridge, has won the Wood Awards’ 2021 Gold Award.

Grafton Architects’ Town House for Kingston University has won the Stirling Prize, but does its concrete construction justify itself in an era of climate collapse?

Catherine Slessor has been named as the next president of the UK’s Twentieth Century Society.

Counterspace’s 2021 pavilion has opened in Hyde Park, formed from architectural elements sampled from around the city.

The Spanish architect, educator and theorist has been given the highest accolade from the Venice Architecture Biennale, which opens on 22 May.