All articles by Oliver Wainwright – Page 7
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OpinionThis Stirling shortlist favours the safe and generic
The usual suspects are once again honoured at the expense of truly stirring architecture.
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BlogsThe boy with the Botta tattoo
Do you love a building so much that you would have it inscribed into your skin forever?
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Building StudyCaruso St John creates a ‘room for the city’ in central Bremen
Sited in the city’s historic temple district, next to the town hall and cathedral, the €33 million, 23,300sq m project will complete the north-western edge of the Domshof central square.The seven-storey building is arranged around an oval-shaped courtyard, conceived as a “room for the city”, open to the sky and ...
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Building StudySouth Norwood Hill Children’s Centre by Erect Architecture
Erect Architecture’s joyful reinvention of a nursery building in South Norwood, London, has a lot to teach us about working with existing buildings and systems, says Oliver Wainwright
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Building StudyJonathan Tuckey’s remodelled school reflects local industrial influences
Jonathan Tuckey Design has revealed plans for Wilberforce Primary School in north Westminster, London.
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ReviewJunya Ishigami: Architecture as Air
Junya Ishigami’s new show builds a fragile yet compelling vision of the power of the almost imperceptible
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Building StudySainsbury Laboratory at Cambridge University, by Stanton Williams
This laboratory in the University of Cambridge’s Botanic Gardens is the ideal habitat for botanists
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BlogsRIP Broadgate
How the “Battle of Broadgate” conclusively revealed that London’s planners have lost their teeth.
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NewsCardiff students build Japanese teahouse
First and second year students at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, have built a Japanese teahouse as part of the two-and-a-half-week-long Vertical Studios programme
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Building StudyLyric Theatre in Belfast by O’Donnell & Tuomey
O’Donnell & Tuomey’s joyful new building is the stuff of theatrical legends,
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ReviewPablo Bronstein: Sketches for Regency Living
The Bartlett dropout has subsequently made his name creating assemblages of architectural history. He takes Oliver Wainwright around his ICA show
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Building StudyAnne Mews housing in Barking by AHMM and Maccreanor Lavington
Allford Hall Monaghan & Morris and Maccreanor Lavington Architects have breathed new life into traditional London housing types to provide the first new council housing built in Barking & Dagenham for 25 years.
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ReviewCurators embrace the riot of designs at the RA's summer show
Highlights of this year’s Royal Academy Summer Exhibition include an embroidered bedspread and a building disguised as a teapot.
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AnalysisHawksmoor site in heritage stand-off
Battle lines are drawn over Scabal Architects’ plans for land abutting Hawksmoor’s Christ Church Spitalfields
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Building StudyDoppelhaus by Lütjens Padmanabhan
On a restricted suburban plot by Lake Zürich, Lütjens Padmanabhan has brought a new wit and richness to the semi-detached house
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Building StudyHepworth Wakefield, by David Chipperfield Architects
Chipperfield’s gallery, which opens this week, draws on the power and heritage of its mill-town setting
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Building StudyWoolf breaks ground in Nairobi
Jonathan Woolf Architects has revealed designs for a 1,300sq m private house in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Building StudySt Pancras Renaissance London Hotel by RHWL and Richard Griffiths
The painstaking restoration of St Pancras station’s neo-Gothic Midland Grand Hotel by architects RHWL and Richard Griffiths honours George Gilbert Scott’s original vision, despite some disappointing fit-out choices.
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Building StudyDavid Chipperfield’s Turner Contemporary Gallery
David Chipperfield’s Margate gallery celebrates its unique light but fails to open up to the town
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Building StudyLondon 2012 Olympic stadium by Populous
Despite a spiralling budget and uncertainty over its legacy, Populous’s Olympic stadium emerges as a lithe all-rounder.