Colour standards company Pantone has announced a “dramatically provocative and thoughtful purple shade” as the Colour of the Year for 2018. Pantone chooses a different emerging colour to celebrate each year, with ‘colour experts’ at the Pantone Color Institute searching extensively for new colour influences, taking inspiration from the entertainment industry, films in production, travelling art collections, fashion lines, forthcoming buildings and interiors and socio-economic conditions. According to the firm,

Here are some of the stories that appeared on CLAD this week, from a ski slope on a ski slope in France to Zaha Hadid's Mathematics Gallery for London. Monday • A luxury floating hotel with 148 bedrooms has opened at the King George V lock on the River Thames in London. Read here. • Designer Philippe Starck, music icon Lenny Kravitz and architecture studio Gensler have come together to