Architecture
LA’s graffiti-tagged skyscraper: a work of art – and symbol of city’s wider failings
After its Chinese backers pulled out, Oceanwide Plaza stands abandoned – could it be turned over to those who need it most?
Oliver Wainwright
17, Mar, 2024 @2:00 PM
The Phoenix, Lewes: a new riverside neighbourhood that sounds almost too good to be true
A dream team of architects has planning permission to convert a former ironworks in the old Sussex market town into a sustainable new community. If built, it could spearhead a transformation of British housing
Rowan Moore
17, Mar, 2024 @11:00 AM
‘A tipping point for the city’: anger in Birmingham as Electric cinema closes
Campaign to save UK’s oldest working cinema and designate Station Street ‘a historic asset’ launched amid redevelopment plans
Jessica Murray Midlands correspondent
10, Mar, 2024 @3:00 PM
New River Wing, Clare College, Cambridge review – a perfect fit
Built offsite in Yorkshire and carefully squeezed into its narrow riverside site, the oak-framed extension to Cambridge’s second oldest college combines Tudor-tech spirit and cutting-edge, ship-in-a-bottle engineering
Rowan Moore
10, Mar, 2024 @11:00 AM
John Miller obituary
Architect who modified Tate Britain and other institutions sympathetically and designed discreet new structures
Deyan Sudjic
08, Mar, 2024 @9:10 PM
A tropical storm, an ancient sisterhood and Toni Morrison sculptures – the week in art
Postcolonial architecture in Ghana, fresh responses to an all-female medieval community and sculptures inspired by radical writing
Jonathan Jones
08, Mar, 2024 @12:00 PM
‘I am not very good at design’: architecture’s top honour goes to Riken Yamamoto
The Pritzker prize has been won by the 78-year-old Japanese master whose work ranges from an open-access Hiroshima fire station to a building seemingly made of books
Oliver Wainwright
05, Mar, 2024 @2:00 PM
New Yorkers rail against luxury tower blocking Empire State Building: ‘The mighty dollar rules the sky’
Amid a nationwide housing crisis, residents say 262 Fifth Avenue – a batch of condos for the wealthiest – is ruining the view downtown
Alaina Demopoulos in New York
05, Mar, 2024 @12:00 PM
‘It’s a monkey’s puzzle’: is it possible to rebuild the Crooked House pub?
The venue’s owners have been told to put it back to its wonky glory after it was gutted by a fire and bulldozed
Jessica Murray Midlands correspondent
03, Mar, 2024 @12:00 PM
Tropical Modernism review – a complex story of power, freedom, craft… and cows
Modernist architecture’s arrival in India and colonial west Africa, and how, post-independence, a new generation of local architects made the style their own, is explored in an intriguing new exhibition
Rowan Moore
03, Mar, 2024 @11:00 AM
‘We don’t need air con’: how Burkina Faso builds schools that stay cool in 40C heat
Architects use local materials and merge traditional techniques with modern technology to make schools and orphanages cool, welcoming places
Èlia Borràs in Burkina Faso
29, Feb, 2024 @12:43 PM
Long-buried Atlas statue raised to guard Temple of Zeus in Sicily once more
Eight-metre statue dating from fifth century BC restored and assembled piece-by-piece to be displayed in Valley of the Temples
Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo
29, Feb, 2024 @12:32 PM
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