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Oliver Wainwright
Oliver Wainwright is the Guardian's architecture and design critic. Trained as an architect, he has worked for a number of practices, both in the UK and overseas, and written extensively on architecture and design for many international publications. He is also a visiting critic at several architecture schools
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When the Happn app announced that my dating profile was a hit, I thought it was a phishing scam. Then my phone lit up with friends laughing at me
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Our fondness for the Swedish manufacturer has contributed to falling antique sales – and our inability to appreciate other furniture. Here’s a list of six design classics to set the flat-packs packing
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Community land trusts battle gentrification by linking house prices to local wages rather than the market rate. But can this growing movement for ‘permanently affordable’ homes really ease Britain’s housing crisis?
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The tower with a combover, the “90-storey” skyscraper with just 72 floors, the name in huge shiny letters … Trump says his buildings are beautiful. But all they stand for is money, status and power
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Churchill College already has some of Cambridge University’s most unusual buildings – and 6a Architects’ new accommodation block adapts its brutalism to create a sylvan utopia
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The extreme views of Patrik Schumacher, who has taken over at the global firm, are causing outrage. His vision? Let the market rule – and don’t put equality before profit
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Design Museum, London
From the secrets of Grindr to 3D death masks and the shocking truth about jumper fabric, this is a fun ramble through the zeitgeist (but don’t worry, there are still floor lamps)
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Poundbury, the Prince of Wales’s traditionalist village in Dorset, has long been mocked as a feudal Disneyland. But a growing and diverse community suggests it’s getting a lot of things right
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Wiggling ducts, jumbles of planks, coils of cable … William Heath Robinson’s peculiar genius has been given the perfect home
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From Portugal’s all-female bridge-builders to eye-popping behind the scenes glimpses of David Chipperfield’s Neues Museum, Building Site is the star turn of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale
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The UK’s most prestigious architecture prize has been won by the subtle masters of gallery design, 10 years after they were first nominated
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Celebrated for his ‘raw, primal’ concrete structures, the architect adds RIBA honour to growing list of top architectural prizes
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Today we begin a new series looking at the impact of gentrification and rising housing costs all over the world – and the ways some cities are trying to tackle this global phenomenon
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A century in the making, and now completed by Britain’s David Adjaye, the Smithsonian’s gleeful, gleaming upturned pagoda more than holds its own against the sombre Goliaths of America’s monument heartland
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The great photographer’s awesome images – taken from drones, propellor planes and a 50ft selfie stick – show how industry has drilled and drained our planet
Tech and the city Tinder for cities: how tech is making urban planning more inclusive