Architecture
The battle's on for vintage architecture
Norman Foster's latest creation is a winery outside Madrid. It puts him in direct competition with his greatest rival, Richard Rogers, says Jay Merrick
Inside Architecture
Concrete jungle: How Italy’s modern ruins became art
Sunday, 8 August 2010
Motorways, theatres, car parks... even a polo stadium. The list of incomplete building works littering the Italian landscape is remarkable – scandalous, even. But out of the political shenanigans can something meaningful be created?
Station to station: the new power generation
Thursday, 5 August 2010
Jay Merrick: The architecture of Britain's latest wave of energy plants is the finest since Bankside in the 1940s
Muf is enough
Monday, 2 August 2010
The British representatives at the Venice Architecture Biennale work with rubbish, fragments and cyanide. Jay Merrick meets the two women behind the groundbreaking Muf
Schools and museums on RIBA Stirling shortlist
Thursday, 22 July 2010
It is the first time two schools -Christ’s College School in Guildford and Clapham Manor Primary School - have been shortlisted.
Rural neighbours condemn comedian's modern home plan
Saturday, 17 July 2010
Comedian Rowan Atkinson divided opinion with plans to build a futuristic home in the middle of the countryside.
Milton Keynes mall is listed
Saturday, 17 July 2010
A shopping centre has joined stately homes as a listed building. The 1970s glass-and-steel Milton Keynes shopping centre, known as thecentre:mk, has been given Grade II status, meaning it is "nationally important and of special interest", according to English Heritage.
Jean Nouvel: Good for a prize, but not for a Prince
Sunday, 11 July 2010
The architect whose reputation disconcerted the heir to the throne has brought his provocative talent to two new London projects, one of which is his homage to Sir Christopher Wren
Foster resigns his seat in Lords over 'non-dom' rules
Thursday, 8 July 2010
Lord Foster has pointed out that he is not a nom-domiciled UK resident and has never sought "non-dom" status, his letter setting out his position is here.
Serpentine Pavilion: Rouge awakening
Tuesday, 6 July 2010
Jean Nouvel's vivid red Serpentine Pavilion promises to make a startling contrast with the green of Hyde Park. Jay Merrick charts the lure of the lurid
Will Brighton's Modernist marvel sink without trace?
Thursday, 1 July 2010
Campaigners fight to save decaying 1930s lido from wrecking ball
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