'Backrooms' and the architecture of fear

Backrooms and the architecture of fear

What if the villain in a horror movie wasn’t a monster, but a place? Inspired by an internet urban legend and created by a 20-year-old from his bedroom, ‘Backrooms’ turns the fear of empty, ‘in-between’ spaces into one of the year’s most disturbing films

The Los Angeles art exhibitions to see in June

From diving into the history of the World Cup at Torrance Historical Society & Museum to Yoko Ono celebrated work at The Broad – here's how to keep busy in the city

A modernist home in Montréal gets a renovation that stays faithful to its roots

Design studio Vives St-Laurent worked with inherited conditions – modest ceiling heights, sloped roofs and decades of modifications – to draw out the home's original early-20th-century character

What is a spomenik? Tour former Yugoslavia’s lost brutalist symbols of unity

Seven simple smartphones that do things differently

From modern takes on the classic Blackberry to devices designed to banish distraction, there are more leftfield smartphone makers than ever. Here is a series of devices that are built to be different

The story behind Olivia Rodrigo's hand-crafted music video

‘I cannot stress enough that the entire hospital is made out of arts and crafts’, the creators behind 'The Cure' tell Hannah Silver