Architecture
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Picturing place: The Three Magnets diagram has travelled widely since its original publication in 1898, but divorced from its original text the image has often been mis-read, highlighting the ease with which images can be isolated from their original context and be mobilised in new ways
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The number of women in UK architecture firms is falling, and many urbanists are worried by the ‘very, very male-dominated’ worlds of planning and construction. So how would cities differ if women designed them?
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The Spanish architects, who specialise in semi-submerged builds in harmony with their natural surroundings, promise an ‘experimental’ pavilion that will ‘embrace the garden’
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Picturing place: In an age of intense competition between the world’s cities, authorities are focused on presenting a particular image for global consumption
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Andrew Dempsey writes: I first met David Mackay at the time that he and his firm MBM designed the Homage to Barcelona exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London, in 1985
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The controversial bridge scheme has now been passed by Westminster Council despite vociferous opposition, writes Oliver Wainwright
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This show of the leather-clad architect’s private collection suggests that art’s recession into fashion and luxury is not just inevitable but something to be celebrated
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China’s president Xi Jinping wants artists to move to villages. But some are well ahead of him, writes Oliver Wainwright
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Leading British architect, who works in both cities, bemoans lack of public realm and discussion of buildings’ meaning in Britain
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Picturing Place: In the first of a series looking at how imagery shapes our cities, we look at the origin of Brasilia and how it started life as a simple drawing
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The story of the English railway station since its Victorian heyday is that of a distinctively creative free-for-all, writes Rowan Moore
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Architectural historian who made a compelling case for preserving London’s historic buildings
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The Palm Springs Visitor Center is a prime example of 'desert modernism', the theme of the new Architecture and Design Center in the Californian city
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Reviving the port lands could be this congested island city’s best bet for affordable housing, transport links and public space. But chances like this have been squandered in the past
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Granby Four Streets in Toxteth is a rare success after New Labour initiatives drained the area of life
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Photographer Gabriele Croppi travels the world shooting the most iconic buildings. But his pictures also reveal way more startling things in the urban shadows: a man carrying a nude mannequin, and bands of meditating monks
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Photographer David Moore’s construction images join a long tradition of honouring urban engineering feats – and the workers who sweat to create them
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Country Diary Wrest Park, Bedfordshire: Out of the fog came a jackdaw which landed on its stone head
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While the light-diffusing Sky-Net is a feat of technical virtuosity, the transport hub is grey and glassy, with the placeless feel of a shopping mall
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Architect in the Barcelona practice that designed the athletes’ village and harbour for the city’s Olympic Games in 1992
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The former Smiths guitarist talks to Kathy Sweeney about modernism and magazines, Paul Klee and art manifestos, Maxine Peake – and his fans’ impeccable taste
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John Kampfner: Leaders in all fields of the arts are launching a fightback to boost a success story that is made in Britain
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Rowan Moore: The cost of Joanna Lumley’s idea has risen to £175m so far and the impact on the surrounding area will be horrendous
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Ian Jack on Saturday Buchan trap, blind siphon or Bristol interceptor – whatever you call it, it’s playing havoc with my drains
Ian Jack: A Victorian house is a fragile and aging thing, filled with potential hazards and parts as unnecessary as tonsils or the appendix -
The co-founder of 12hrs Travel Guides finds tranquility at the stunning, modern Chapel of Silence in Helsinki
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An architecture firm has achieved the improbable – completed a building on time and within budget. Oliver Wainwright finds out more
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Architecture and design blog London's garden bridge: the public park where groups and cyclists aren't welcome
Revealed: the garden bridge planned by Thomas Heatherwick and Joanna Lumley is not actually going to be open to all. Instead it will be a privately-managed tourist attraction likely to require advance booking -
From the Guardian archive From the archive, 19 November 1988: Paternoster’s piazzas fit for a prince
Originally published in the Guardian on 19 November 1988: Architects swear it is merely coincidence that the redesigned Paternoster Square adheres so closely to Prince Charles’s classical views -
City’s opposition councillors accused of violating secret ballot that produced slim rejection of Triangle tower project
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Rachel Cooke: The whelk stalls and aniseed balls that were such a part of my childhood are gone – and the wrecking ball will be moving in on the site of Sheffield’s improbably weird and lively institution
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Rowan Moore talks to Farshid Moussavi about fashion, function and the power of physical space in a virtual world
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Financial woes and design glitches have not stopped London’s skyscrapers from changing hands for dizzy sums
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Geographer and designer duo Benedikt Gross and Joey Lee have created “Aerial Bold”, a project that finds typography in satellite imagery, writes Kathryn Bromwich
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A radical overhaul disguised as a modest intervention, the new building wears its ambitions lightly – apart from one serious flaw
Why even an old ruin can be so elevating for the human spirit