All Editorial articles – Page 11
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OpinionGentrification may be brutalism’s best hope
What’s happening at the Balfron has infuriated many but don’t be too quick to criticise, cautions Owen Hopkins. The alternative for many brutalist gems is oblivion
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OpinionShould architecture be for Anywhere or Somewhere?
It’s more than 30 years since Kenneth Frampton brought us critical regionalism but in today’s political landscape it’s as relevant as ever, argues Ben Flatman
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NewsNatural History Museum architect lands Design Museum gig
Chris Hildrey to combine day job with design residency
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NewsSteven Holl's contested Maggie's Centre takes shape
Exclusive construction pictures of US architect’s first English building
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OpinionMental health issues: a new campaign to help architects
Mental health is a big issue for architects. Eleanor Jolliffe welcomes a new campaign launched by RIBA and the Architects Benevolent Society to help
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NewsMartyn Evans appoints six architects as he starts new role
Ash Sakula working on sustainable housing project at Dartington Hall Estate
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OpinionWhy I welcome the rise of east London
Gentrification is not all bad, argues Charles Saumarez Smith, a long-standing resident of the East End
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Building StudyPierre Boulez Saal, Berlin by Gehry Partners
Frank Gehry’s £28.5m Berlin concert hall is an unusual building for this celebrated creator of the unusual. Ike Ijeh finds that through its sharp contradictions of age, shape and material, it achieves a kind of peace
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NewsDow Jones completes £7.5m Garden Museum expansion
Architect won first and second phases of project at listed church
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OpinionWhen is overcrowding not overcrowding?
When you could sleep in the kitchen. Julia Park provides an illuminating history of the many ways landlords and the authorities have dodged their responsibility to provide decent housing rights up to the present day
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OpinionPavilions: There’s no excuse for leaving rigour at the park gate
Mark Middleton excoriates architects and their clients who fail to take a commission for a bit of summer fun seriously
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OpinionWhy new urbanism is the answer all over again
The ground-up movement which helped defeat urban decay in the 1980s is just as relevant now our cities face the opposite problem, argues Hank Dittmar
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NewsKnight to design third bridge across Menai Strait
Crossing will be built alongside bridges by Telford and Stephenson
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Opinion
It's time to divert Garden Bridge funding to other Thames crossings
Our reader poll demonstrates an appetite for more Thames pedestrian crossings. Public money left over from scrapping support for the Garden Bridge would get these moving, says Thomas Lane
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NewsDiamond Jubilee Bridge tops Thames crossing poll
One-World Design Architects’ west London scheme pips downstream rivals
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Technical'We're very happy with the term magic realism'
Job Floris and Sandor Naus of Monadnock talk to Hugh Strange about the mixed legacy of the Superdutch generation and the importance of creating new stories from old traditions
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ReviewBrutalism: Where did it all go wrong?
In a crowded field, this exhibition has much to contribute and deserves a bigger platform than the RA’s architecture ‘corridor’, says Daniel Elsea
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NewsManchester architect to rebuild fire-ravaged Exeter hotel
Buttress’ relationship with engineer led to appointment
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OpinionRegeneration will come naturally to the Lea Valley - after a lot of work
The Leaway has been a long time coming but soon we should be able to let the landscape do the talking, says Gillian Darley
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NewsFobert's Tate St Ives to open 12 years after he was first appointed
Scheme in Cornwall will welcome first visitors this October