Architecture

Design for Eco-City 2020, the city in a mineshaft for 100,000 people

A warren of streets: Eco-City 2020

As Russia plans to build a glass-domed undergound city deep beneath Siberian ice, Nick Duerden explores subterranean dwelling.

Inside Architecture

Paddington's Merchant Square building is a bit of a mind-bender

Friday, 26 November 2010

Britain is awash with large commercial buildings whose façades have been tarted up with supposedly creative gubbins because planners encourage the so-called Per Cent For Art approach. We're not talking Anish Kapoor. Nine times out of ten, that 1 per cent of building cost pays for witless "artistic" glass fins projecting from façades.

As they like it? RSC hopes redesign will win over critics

Wednesday, 24 November 2010

Rob Sharp: After three years and �112m, Stratford has changed its stage.

Shard now UK's tallest building

Wednesday, 24 November 2010

Britain has a new tallest building after the Shard, currently under construction near London Bridge, yesterday outgrew the previous holder, Canary Wharf Tower in Docklands, which stands at 235m (771ft).

Cultural desert: Will Abu Dhabi censor its new museums?

Monday, 15 November 2010

The world's leading architects are building museums in Abu Dhabi as the emirate pours a fortune into trying to become one of the art capitals of the world. But will the works inside be censored?

Austin Williams: The "beauty debate" isn’t even skin deep

Monday, 15 November 2010

At a recent architectural debate in south London, the Strata Tower, the landmark building in Elephant & Castle was lambasted for its ugliness.

Grand designs: winners from the World Architecture Festival

Thursday, 4 November 2010

The world’s biggest architectural event is underway in Barcelona, with the first round of winners announced today.

The Sagrada Familia: Men At Work (for the last 125 years)

Saturday, 30 October 2010

The Pope's visit has induced unusual urgency in the building programme.

Architects angry at Prince's power grab

Friday, 29 October 2010

Rob Sharp: He has damned modern designs for London's National Gallery and Chelsea Barracks, trumpeted a traditionalist model town in Dorset and delivered verdicts on buildings to ministers and world leaders.

Design heritage of Le Corbusier's Indian vision is carved up for sale

Monday, 25 October 2010

When Jawaharlal Nehru commissioned the French architect Le Corbusier to build the city Chandigarh he proclaimed it as the embodiment of a newly independent India “unfettered by the traditions of the past, a symbol of the nation’s faith in the future”.

Shrines to shopping

Monday, 11 October 2010

Jean Nouvel is leading the rush of top architects designing luxury retail outlets – and they show that beauty can have a place in the mall, says Jay Merrick

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