The enduring power of Martin Luther King
On Martin Luther King Day, we look at how Dr King’s work is remembered and celebrated in art, architecture and text
All you need to know about Architizer: The World's Best Architecture 2020
See the greatest new buildings from 2020 and learn where the architecture world is taking us
All you need to know about Radical Architecture of the Future
Beatrice Galilee’s revolutionary survey looks towards tomorrow’s built environment via today’s most exciting architectural projects
Watch David Adjaye, Michael Bierut and Spencer Bailey talk about contemporary memorials
The architect, designer and author got together yesterday to discuss all aspects of Bailey's new book, In Memory Of
RIBA winner Sir David Adjaye on the future of memorials
Following the announcement that the architect is to receive RIBA’s Royal Gold Medal, British architecture’s highest honour, we share some of his thoughts from our new book In Memory Of: Designing Contemporary Memorials
Join Jeanne Gang and Jane Hall at RIBA this Monday!
The Studio Gang founder is in conversation with Breaking Ground author Jane Hall and you're invited
Philip Johnson’s religious side
Our new book highlights the American architect’s surprising enthusiasm for houses of worship
All you need to know about In Memory Of: Designing Contemporary Memorials
Our new book looks at some of the most beautiful, moving and thoughtful memorials of the past four decades
Studio Gang win big at the Architizer A+ Awards
The Chicago practice receives four awards for three of its innovative new buildings
When Philip Johnson joined the protest marchers
In 1963 the great American modernist took to the streets of New York, becoming an unlikely voice against the destruction of a Beaux-Arts landmark
Brutalism catches up with the Kardashians
'I’ve finally made it,' says This Brutal World’s author, as he spies his book in Kylie Jenner’s home
Ready for retail therapy again? Peter Marino's new Dior store in Paris is a beautiful place to start!
The architect and collector has overseen Dior’s huge new, art-filled retail space on rue Saint-Honoré in the French capital
How Philip Johnson looked back, as well as forward
Take a look at the other New Canaan house that proves the acclaimed architect was more than a Mies-inspired Modernist
The motherly ambition that spurred on Philip Johnson
Philip was the vehicle for achieving his mother’s cultural aspirations, and she poured all of her knowledge and energy into his intellectual formation
The New York restaurant where Philip Johnson held court
Did Johnson’s gossipy nature, often indulged at the Four Seasons restaurant help improve architecture in America?
'My job was to go treasure hunting!' Author Ian Volner on his revealing Philip Johnson visual biography
On Johnson’s birthday, the author of Philip Johnson: A Visual Biography discusses his new publication with Hilary Lewis, Chief Curator and Creative Director of The Glass House
John Pawson's Lockdown Life
Britain's best minimalist is loving the long hair and not shaving - and he's been working on some very cool furniture and objects in the last few weeks
Watch Jeanne Gang talk about the Flow in her buildings
Learn how she makes smooth geometries work together to make visitor movements poetry in motion
Watch Jeanne Gang talk about the rhythm in her buildings
Architecture is an unmoving, monumental art, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have rhythm. Watch as the acclaimed architect draws your attention to the sun patterns moving across the face of her buildings
Philip Johnson and Friends: Andy Warhol
“It was joked about Andy that he would ‘attend the opening of an envelope’ — and so might Philip, if only the name on the envelope were interesting enough"
Philip Johnson and friends: Alfred Barr
The inaugural MoMA director shaped Johnson’s tastes - the architect repaid him by donating paintings by Paul Klee, Willem de Kooning, Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol to the museum
Philip Johnson and Friends: Jackie O
JFK's widow was a great friend of the architect but what was the key work of his that she never visited - and why?
Philip Johnson, the AT&T Building, and a fling with postmodernism
Here’s how the mercurial Mr. Johnson first launched, then abandoned a major 20th century architectural movement
Splendid isolation - 5 places we wouldn't mind holing up in
See how some self-isolate in these beautiful homes featured in Living on Vacation
Philip Johnson and the making of the Seagram Building
Mies’s masterpiece might never have towered over NYC, had Johnson not put in some skillful, social groundwork
Philip Johnson, the Glass House, and its dark secrets
Though Mies van der Rohe’s influence is undeniable, this weekend retreat was not without some hidden depths of its own...
The wild styles behind Charles Moore’s last home
Take a look at the eclectic house where this PoMo proponent felt truly at home
All you need to know about Philip Johnson: A Visual Biography
Get up close with the mercurial Mr Johnson - one of the most important figures in American architecture
Best Products, the 70s store that thought outside the box
Our book Postmodern Architecture: Less is a Bore features the catalog chain that disrupted the retail environment
Grafton Architects win the 2020 Pritzker Prize
Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara’s Dublin practice is singled out for its integrity
The Postmodern pool house where Egyptian and old English architecture get on swimmingly
Robert A.M. Stern's indoor pool features John Nash columns and fake Palm trees - and it's in New Jersey
All you need to know about Living on Vacation
Retreat from the world in the most civilized style, via our exquisite survey of beautiful, contemporary holiday homes
Sorry, columns don't always make a new building look old!
A draft US govt order could impose classical architecture styles on new Federal buildings. But might it actually lead to a little Postmodernism?
Grafton Architects win RIBA’s Royal Gold Medal
The Dublin-based practice receive RIBA’s highest honour for their generous, humane and humble work
How Postmodernism became a dirty word
Did politics play a part in the backlash against this permissive, fun and irreverent architectural style?
One thing not to miss in Los Angeles
The art-filled restaurant Manuela is one of the many highlights in our new Wallpaper* City Guide
Did Postmodern Architecture help Disney win over big talent?
That was the view of Disney's CEO, who commissioned 5 of the buildings in our new Postmodern Architecture book
5 Budget Hotels Recommended by Architecture Legends
Where Architects Sleep opens up a world of globe hopping for anyone planning a stylish (and affordable) escape
All you need to know about Postmodern Architecture: Less is a Bore
You might be shocked and possibly even outraged by the buildings in our new book, but you really won’t be bored
5 Desert Getaways Chosen by Architecture Legends
Where Architects Sleep opens up a whole new world of hotel hopping for anyone planning a stylish escape
5 Countryside Retreats Chosen by Architecture Legends
Where Architects Sleep opens up a whole new world of hotel hopping for anyone planning a stylish weekend escape
5 City Break Hotels Chosen by Architecture Legends
Where Architects Sleep opens up a whole new world of hotel hopping for anyone planning a quick and stylish escape
5 winter getaways chosen by Architecture legends
Our new book Where Architects Sleep opens up a whole new world of hotel hopping. These ones could brighten up your January
One thing not to miss in Vancouver
Heading to Canada’s West Coast in 2020? Then look out for this brand-new Bjarke Ingels landmark featured in our new Wallpaper* City Guide
INTERVIEW: Jane Hall on the walls women must climb to make great buildings
Breaking Ground's author says prejudice isn’t the only reason women find it hard to make it in architecture in our Holiday Long Read
INTERVIEW: Pierluigi Serraino on the 'emotional intensity' of Ezra Stoller
The architect and author of our Ezra Stoller book explains why the photographer's archive took his breath away in this Christmas Long Read
INTERVIEW: Dominic Bradbury on how Mid-Century Modernism took over our world - and why we're happy it did
'It was all so evocative, so mesmerising,' the Atlas of Mid-Century Modern Houses author says in this Christmas Holiday Long Read
John Pawson brings less to Los Angeles
Working with legendary hotelier Ian Schrager, Pawson conjures up sophisticated tranquillity on Sunset Strip
GIFTING: Who is William Hall giving his book to this Christmas?
The author of Stone takes us through his year and which family member he's inspiring to become an architect. . .
Why does Snøhetta's co-founder feel like a dinosaur?
Over 30 years, Kjetil Trædal Thorsen recognises how his practice has changed, and how it was ahead of the times
From Book to Bid – Paul Rudolph's Walker Guest House
Here's how this playful little beach house - up for sale via Sotheby's - exemplifies Mid-Century Modern architecture
GIFTING: Who is Jane Hall giving her book to this Christmas?
The Assemble architect and Breaking Ground author runs us through her year and tells us who's on her Christmas list
GIFTING: Who is Dominic Bradbury giving his book to this Christmas?
The author of the Atlas of Mid-Century Modern Houses tells us about his year, and who is on his gift list this season
GIFTING: Who is John Pawson giving his book to this Christmas?
The architect and Phaidon author runs us through his year, and tells us who is on his Christmas list
GIFTING: Who is Pierluigi Serraino giving his book to this Christmas?
The author of our new Ezra Stoller book runs us through his year, and tells us who is on his Christmas list
The New Stone Age: Himalesque radio station, Nepal
What do you use when you're building a multipurpose radio station in the Himalayas? Stone, as our new book notes
One thing not to miss in Havana
This modernist tribute to ice cream is one of the many highlights in our newly published Wallpaper* City Guide
Mid-Century Modern World: White Fox Lodge
Take a tour with the Atlas of Mid-Century Modern Houses. Next stop: The English countryside
Ezra Stoller's Modern America: Kimbell Art Museum
The symbolic breadth of Kahn’s buildings resonated deeply with Stoller, and he shot them for love not money
Ezra Stoller's Modern America: The Whitney Museum
Despite Stoller’s admiration for the architect, this is the only large-scale Marcel Breuer project he photographed
Mid-Century Modern World: Ses Voltes
Take a tour with the Atlas of Mid-Century Modern Houses. Next stop: Ibiza
Pawson Projects: L’Anatomie de la Sensation
How does the noted minimalist architect approach stage design? In his own signature simple, yet emotional, way
Ezra Stoller's Modern America: Philip Morris Research Center Tower
Our new Ezra Stoller book uncovers some little-seen mid-century classics - like this Brutalist tobacco facility
Mid-Century Modern World: The Kaufmann House
Take a tour with the Atlas of Mid-Century Modern Houses. Next stop: the home that defined Desert Modernism
Ezra Stoller’s Modern America: The Glass House
Philip Johnson resisted the photographer's influence, but Stoller's shots may have helped the architect's reputation
Mid-Century Modern World: Thredbo Ski Lodge
Take a tour with the Atlas of Mid-Century Modern Houses. First stop: a ski-lodge in New South Wales
Pawson Projects: Product Design
How do you express the monastic life in a steak knife, or a geological age in an oil lamp? Well, take a look...
The New Stone Age: Uchimura Kanzo Memorial Stone Church
When a very unconventional sect sought to memorialise its founder it chose very conventional building blocks
The New Stone Age: Sancaklar Mosque
This stone building proves you can respect religious needs with challenging contemporary designs
Ezra Stoller’s Modern America: The Seagram Building
Stoller's images of Mies van der Rohe's NYC masterpiece may be wonderful but their relationship was not
Pawson Projects: Palmgren House, Sweden
Look at how the famed British minimalist created a contemporary house in Stockholm’s lakeside suburbs
Ezra Stoller’s Modern America: The TWA Terminal
Eero Saarinen wanted to be a part of history, and he knew Ezra Stoller's photography would secure him a place
Architecture by Women: Sharon Johnston
The pioneering architect proves you can minimise environmental impact, while maximising views
Pawson Projects: Montauk House, USA
John Pawson carved out a family home with a strong sense of place in the shifting dunes of Long Island
The New Stone Age: Lanyang Museum
Kris Yao's museum in Taiwan mixes ancient local stone and aluminium in a thoroughly 21st century way
One thing not to miss in Seoul
Art galleries and clubs are just a few of the many new highlights in our newly released Wallpaper* City Guide
Ezra Stoller’s Modern America: The Guggenheim Museum
The great architectural photographer regarded Wright as a genius, and the feeling may have been mutual
Architecture by Women: Su Rogers
Rogers helped introduce a ground-breaking, high-tech substance into domestic architect via this holiday home
Pawson Projects: St Moritz Church, Germany
The parishioners of Augsburg, Germany wanted a simpler, sparer space. John Pawson answered their prayers
The New Stone Age: Church of San Giovanni Battista
When Mario Botta came to design a new church, he took ancient building materials and gave them a novel twist
Pawson Projects: Home Farm, England
Why did the minimalist architect choose to turn a disordered group of rural buildings into a new home for himself?
Ezra Stoller’s Modern America: The Breuer House
With the help of the architect himself, Stoller captured a brilliantly cohesive vision of mid-century domesticity
Architecture by Women: Elizabeth Diller
The Broad is characterised by Diller's honeycomb outer shell that provides filtered light to view the art inside
Ezra Stoller’s Modern America: The Finnish Pavilion
Stoller’s shot of Aalto’s NYC pavilion initiated an approach that led to some of the best ever architectural photos
Architecture by Women: Špela Videčnik
This Slovenian architect used restriction as a starting point for her creativity with this spectacular new stadium
One thing not to miss in Tokyo
The Sumida Hokusai Museum is one of many highlights in our newly released Wallpaper* City Guide
Architecture by Women: Mariam Kamara
Find out how one female architect brought religious worship and secular learning together in a remote African village
Deyan Sudjic says John Pawson is a bit like Stanley Kubrick
The Design Museum director says the moviemaker and the architect share a remarkable purity of purpose
INTERVIEW: William Hall on why the future of architecture is set in Stone
The author of the latest book in our Building Materials series believes Stone is hard to beat in a climate emergency
All you need to know about John Pawson: Anatomy of Minimum
This powerful new monograph showcases the elements and architectural anatomy at the heart of Pawson's work
The making of Mid-Century Modernism
How did one style of architecture spread right across the globe? Through adaptation, argues Dominic Bradbury
All you need to know about the Atlas of Mid-Century Modern Houses
Love good living? Then you need the most wide-ranging survey of Mid-Century Modern homes around the world
How women architects shape the way we think about building
New book Breaking Ground argues that the theoretical side of the profession can enable women to thrive
What the Notre Dame fire taught our author about stone
As William Hall watched the Parisian cathedral burn he realised the durability of this ancient building material
All you need to know about Breaking Ground
Get this pioneering visual manifesto of 200 plus incredible buildings designed by women all over the world
All you need to know about Stone
Take a tour of some of the world's best buildings - all made from the oldest and most enduring building material
Morten Bo Jensen on how to build an extraordinary house
The architects in Houses: Extraordinary Living explain how they put drama into domestic living
Tom Kundig on how to build an extraordinary house
The architects in Houses: Extraordinary Living explain how they put drama into domestic living
Denise Scott Brown wins Lifetime Achievement Award
She missed out on the Pritzker Prize back in 1991; can a Lisbon Triennale award redress the balance a little?
3 Pools to dive into (and one you might want to avoid)
They look welcoming, though you wouldn’t want to break the surface of every swimming pool in our books. . .
Did you spot this LA landmark in the new Tarantino film?
Once Upon a Time in ... Hollywood features one of LA's best-loved buildings, immortalised by Marvin Rand
6 Beautiful beach houses to admire this summer
Wherever you end up during your time off we hope it’s as striking as these wonderful waterside retreats
Ben van Berkel on how to build an extraordinary house
The architects in Houses: Extraordinary Living explain how they put drama into domestic living
Snarkitecture put a brick in Hudson Yards’ window
The NY practice provides a surprising, see-through intervention in Forty Five Ten’s new Manhattan store
Snøhetta's brainy mountain trail
The architecture practice’s new Path of Perspectives encourages hikers to slow down, think, and take in the view
Fran Silvestre on how to build an extraordinary house
The architects in Houses: Extraordinary Living explain how they put drama into domestic living
Philip Johnson’s Glass House - inside and out
On the anniversary of the architect’s birth, we take a look at the legacy of his most famous domestic creation
MAD’s theatre brings bling to China's jewellery city
The innovative Chinese practice has chosen an ancient motif for its winning design: junk sails
The building of Pierre Cardin’s curvy Bubble Palace
On the designer’s 97th birthday, we take a look at his famously futuristic summer house on the French Riviera
When Gaudí found beauty in brick
On the great Spanish architect’s birthday we look back at his ornate treatment of this humble building block
Pride flag adorns the steps of Louis Kahn’s Four Freedoms Park
The New York City park has added a splash of colour to Louis Kahn’s minimal designs in Pride month
Want a mid-century Richard Neutra classic of your own?
Furniture and kit house company Kettal are offering two new structures based on his classic VDL House
Phaidon Introductions: Sam Lubell on houses and homes
The influential architectural writer looks at how domestic designs have changed to match our aspirations
Marc Jacobs bought this house (but the car didn’t come with it)
Nevertheless, Jacobs’ Frank Lloyd Wright house in Rye, NY State, is still a mid-century modern masterpiece
Got time to unwind in our new reading room?
We’ve teamed up with Herman Miller to create a place to ponder great books inside the TWA Hotel at JFK
I.M. Pei 1917 - 2019
The Chinese-American architect died yesterday - we celebrate his life in 5 of his greatest buildings
Phaidon Introductions: Snøhetta on the backstories it creates
The world-famous practice explains why, when it comes to creating great buildings, narrative comes first
The winning shot from our East Coast architecture guide
This garage might be on the eastern seaboard, but that hasn’t stopped an LA association from recognising it
Did you know that artist architecture is a thing?
There are plenty of places made by artists in our book Houses (but you might not want to live in some of them...)
A Phaidon author witnesses the Notre Dame fire
Our architectural writer was on hand as the flames engulfed the medieval French cathedral. Here’s what he saw
Can you spot the Chinese motif in Snøhetta's Opera House?
Let’s just say the brilliant Norwegian architectural and design firm are big fans of East Asian symbolism
Snøhetta create Europe’s first underwater restaurant
The new building on Norway’s southern-most tip will serve as a restaurant and a marine research station
Why was Le Corbusier so intent on meeting Albert Einstein?
On Einstein's birthday we look at the role the physicist played in helping Le Corbusier promote his influential idea
How Anish Kapoor turned an artwork into a concert hall
On his 65th birthday we look at how he and Arata Isozaki created an abstract work to solve a real world problem
The ruin that Thomas Heatherwick redeemed
Ahead of his Hudson Yards opening, here's an earlier derelict site the British designer helped reinvigorate
Bubbletecture helps Arata Isozaki win the Pritzker Prize
The 2019 prize winner has shown great dynamism in recent years, especially when it comes to inflatable buildings
Six ruins reborn as great contemporary buildings
It’s not just the High Line. Disused facilities all across the world are being turned into new wonders
Frank Gehry’s green dream for the LA River
Will the architect, who turns 90 today, get to transform his hometown’s concrete watercourse?
Come find us at Hudson Yards!
We’ve found the perfect place for Phaidon within New York City's new 28-acre mega-development
One book, 20,000 words and millions of bricks
Watch these videos with William Hall explaining how Brick is even better in its new, mini format
Le Corbusier's Grand Designs: Villa Jacquemet
This house displays his early appreciation of the Arts and Crafts movement (and hides his later love of concrete)
Le Corbusier's Grand Designs: the UN Headquarters New York
Le Corbusier regarded the UN HQ in Manhattan as his work. Despite evidence to the contrary, should we too?
Le Corbusier's Grand Designs: Villa Savoye
You know the house, but have you seen the drawings Le Corbusier made before and after its completion?
Can't afford a Scarpa house? Maybe yours can smell like one
A new line of candles and incense sticks aims to capture the aroma of great 20th century architect-designed houses
William Hall talks about the new mini format Brick
'The smaller format lets the quieter projects stand out' says the author of Concrete, Wood and Brick
Le Corbusier's Grand Designs: The Unité d’Habitation
You probably know the Marseilles version but have you seen his sketches for the others, completed after his death?
Le Corbusier's Grand Designs: The LC2 Chair
You may know Le Corbusier's chair. But have you seen what it looked like on paper before it went into production?
The ancient building block that’s so in right now
New York’s newest luxury condos are using the same building material as Mesopotamia's oldest temples. Why?
Why Louis Kahn would often talk to bricks
A simple, quirky piece of advice to his students showed that this building material had a lot to say
This Brutal World stars in the movie of the moment!
In the Netflix thriller Bird Box our brutalist architecture book is a welcome distraction from uglier scenes outside
Look at John Pawson’s photos of Peter Zumthor’s first UK house
The architect, photographer and Phaidon author visits Zumthor’s Secular Retreat, commissioned by Alain de Botton
What's Alex from Snarkitecture up to in 2019?
Co-founder Alex Mustonen fills us in on the practice’s plans for its new permanent NYC venue, Snark Park
What’s John Pawson up to in 2019?
The architect and Phaidon author will sign off on one of his longest-standing commissions over the next 12 months
Who is Alex from Snarkitecture giving his book to this Christmas?
Co-founder of the innovative NY design studio reveals his 2018 highs and lows and who’ll be getting a great gift
Did Adolf Loos think Ornament was Crime? And was he right?
The architect was born on this day, 10 December, 1870 and created a style of architecture still debated today
Who is John Pawson giving his book to this Christmas?
The architect and author reveals his 2018 highs and lows and which lucky baby will be getting a great gift
Case Study perfection - up for sale at $3.6 million
It was built as an affordable home, but this Mid-Century beauty has risen in price considerably since 1959
Moshe Safdie reworks his old brutalist apartment
The Israeli-Canadian architect's firm has gone back to Habitat 67 to rework its founder’s old brutalist unit
A few more reasons to buy our Atlas of Brutalist Architecture!
Watch Virginia McLeod, the book’s commissioning editor, talk through the making of this great new title
Who is Sam Lubell giving his book to this Christmas?
The architectural writer and curator tells us about his highs and lows of 2018 and who’ll be getting a great gift
The revealing story behind Alejandro Aravena's Novartis HQ
Reclaimed bricks, and less-than-accurate interpretations of his plans formed part of his 'more or less’ strategy
Want Modernism beside the sea? Go to Fire Island!
This summer resort is home to some of America’s best mid-century architecture, as our new guide explains
Alejandro Aravena’s brutal beach house is for sale
Like to slip off your office gear and gaze into a fire at weekends? Got $1.5m? This place could be right for you
5 things we learned on the Brutal Bus tour
Prince Charles called the National Theatre a nuclear power station, The Royal College of Physicians is based on the human body and only 50 people lived in the Barbican when the Barbican was built (none of them architects!)
Get to know Cape Cod Modernism in Massachusetts
This is what happened when Walter Gropius and co took the summer off and went to the beach
Want to catch up with the Harvard Five? Go to New Canaan
The Connecticut village is an architectural gem, says our new Mid-Century Modern Architecture Travel Guide
Get to know Frank Lloyd Wright in Pleasantville
You’ll never see so much of Wright’s style in a single place than when you tour this small, New York state enclave
Get to know Doo-Wop architecture in Wildwood
The Jersey Shore resort is full of this kitsch take on modernism according to our mid-century East Coast guide
Brutalist buildings you can only see in our new book
The wrecking ball has levelled them but they live on forever in our new Atlas of Brutalist Architecture
Sketch to Skyline - what Luis Barragán’s Las Arboledas development in Mexico looked like on day one
The Pritzker laureate brought nature, order and colour together in this Mexican residential development
These Brutalist buildings look a bit like Jenga blocks
There are plenty of structures in our new Atlas that look just a little bit like the popular wooden building block game
Instagrammers campaigned to save these Brutalist buildings
...but they didn't always succeed. Luckily, you can still see the ones they couldn't save in Atlas of Brutalist Architecture
These Brutalist War memorials have very brutal back stories
World War II hit the former Yugoslavia hard and it has many poignant concrete creations to commemorate it
Sketch to Skyline - what Louis Kahn’s Salk Institute in La Jolla, California looked like on day one
Did you know Kahn originally planned a garden in the middle of the site? Drawing Architecture takes up the story
Do you recognise these Brutalist buildings from the big screen?
From sci-fi to horror, indie drama to LA caper, movie makers love a Brutalist backdrop, as our new Atlas notes
Robert Venturi dies aged 93
The American architect, whose work helped define postmodernism, died on Tuesday in Philadelphia
These Brutalist buildings look like they shouldn't stay up
A smart choice of materials and techniques enables architects to dazzle as Atlas of Brutalist Architecture reveals
A Brutalist guide to Open House London
Londoners – here’s how to satisfy your craving for mid-century concrete this coming weekend
These Brutalist buildings are actually really beautiful
It might not be known for its pretty ornamentation or well-balanced forms but Brutalism can still embody beauty
Sketch to Skyline - what Foreign Office Architects' Yokohama International Ferry Terminal looked like on day one
Sometimes the finished structure doesn't look much like the drawing - as this early ink on paper sketch reveals
How Ernö Goldfinger brutalised both east and west
The architect built iconic towers on both sides of London - and was immortalised as a Bond baddie
Sketch to Skyline - What Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano's Pompidou Centre in Paris looked like on day one
This cultural centre in a rundown part of Paris epitomised 'the Bilbao effect' years before the term was coined
Sketch to Skyline - what Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation in Marseilles looked like on day one
This simple colour-coded sketch from the master helped define the style of public housing for years to come
Sketch to Skyline - what The Shard looked like on day one
Here's how the iconic building took form when Renzo Piano first put his trademark green pen to paper in 2000
Eero Saarinen's only UK building is still a great one
On the anniversary of his birth read how his proto-brutalist American Embassy broke the modernist mould
Alejandro Aravena mixes a bank and a bridge to help the poor
The architect’s new proposal for Buenos Aires Villa 31 neighbourhood will help the city’s poorest cross the tracks
Could you picture your cat in a place like this?
On International Cat Day, we pick out a few purrfect kitty dwellings from our new book, Pet-tecture
Is Owen Luder Britain’s most brutal architect?
The creator of Gateshead’s Trinity Square and Portsmouth’s Tricorn Centre celebrates his 90th birthday today
Grafton Architects win award for latest London building
Their Marshall Building for the LSE in Lincoln's Inn Fields is another masterclass in sensitive city construction
Could MAD’s building bring big ideas to northern China?
The firm's new conference centre aims to bring bright ideas and brilliant conversation to Yabuli, the Davos of China
Europe’s tallest building is 50 per cent higher than The Shard
Gazprom - the world's biggest gas provider - has a very, very energy efficient new headquarters in St. Petersburg
These Hamptons dog houses help NY’s rescue mutts
The Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons has some architectural homes perfectly suited to your best friend
Three London gardens to cool off in this lunchtime
Beat the heat in these chilled public gardens, all of which feature in our new book, Green Escapes
Britain's new Brutalist gallery looks back at social housing
Sheffield's S1 Artspace, newly opened in the city's Park Hill estate, offers a balanced view of high-rise life
The Brutal Chicago landmark that's always been cool
Born on this day, Bertrand Goldberg combined brutalism with the kind of amenities we now take for granted
Barber and Osgerby revisit Ronchamp
We love these shots of Le Corb's Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp, taken by the British design duo
What Aldo Rossi gave to Grafton
How the brilliant Irish practice draw from one of the greats of yesteryear when creating buildings for the future
What Le Corbusier gave to Grafton
How the brilliant Irish practice draw from one of the greats of yesteryear when creating buildings for the future
When the West Coast Case Study houses were an exhibition
In July 4 week we're looking at some of the best American architecture exhibitions from our new book Exhibit A
When the Venice Biennale went PoMo
New book Exhibit A looks at ground breaking architecture shows - including one that introduced post modernism
How does photography shape architecture?
A new show examines why the appeal of architecture is changed by how it's photographed
We have a right to good buildings say Grafton Architects
Architecture should be less about objects and more about subjects, according to the Venice Biennale curators
Why Snarkitecture look to Georgia O’Keeffe and Eero Saarinen
The New York studio draws on the work of two 20th century greats when developing its contemporary designs
Olafur Eliasson creates a brick tower for the Lego family
The Fjordenhus is the first building designed entirely by Eliasson and his team and it opens on Saturday
Our exciting California Captured collaboration with Theory
We've teamed up with the fashion label to showcase the vision of mid-century master photographer Marvin Rand
What’s inside Snarkitecture’s Fun House?
The art, architecture and design practice will create a weird domestic environment in their first museum retrospective
Don't miss this if you're visiting New York City!
Going to Frieze in NYC? Destination Architecture recommends you check out this Manhattan marvel
Why Usher loves Snarkitecture
Discover how the R&B singer developed a long-term collaborative relationship with Snarkitecture's Daniel Arsham
Grafton Architects find their happy place (and ours too)
Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell explain why generosity of spirit should be at the core of architecture
What is it with Snarkitecture and white?
Find out here, as the trio talk through their minimal look and forthcoming summer show
France calls Peter Marino 'officer class' in the art world
The American architect and art collector has just been made an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters!
Sou Fujimoto's vertical village for Paris
The Japanese architect’s new Parisian proposal is a winning, wooden fix for the city's urban sprawl
BIG turn a hotel into a ski run
By chopping the five storey block into a zig-zag of slabs, Bjarke Ingels and co. add a new piste to the Alps
These waterside homes offer splendid isolation
Want to get away from it all? Then take a look at these perfectly isolated island homes, featured in Living on Water
How Edwin Luytens created Great Dixter
The architect was born 149 years ago today. Here's how he took two medieval buildings to make something new
Metabolism: the architectural style behind Isle of Dogs
A quick guide to the utopian architectural movement that influenced Wes Anderson’s dystopian dog film
Herzog & de Meuron float a block above the Moscow River
The architects preserve old industrial buildings, create a new park and still make the most of a riverside view
These waterside homes are perfect for a cosy log fire
Want a cool view and a warming hearth? Then these are the architectural retreats just right for you
The brilliant, female gaze of Grafton Architects
‘We were born female and have the pleasure and pain of seeing the world through female eyes,’ say the Irish duo
Snarkitecture creates a sneaker shrine for Kith in LA
The art, architecture and design studio makes the footwear specialist's elite ranges look even more special
These waterside homes are perfect for city dwellers
Want splendid, watery isolation, within reach of an Uber? Then these are the architectural retreats for you
These waterside homes blend perfectly into their surroundings
Love water, nature and the built environment? Then here are some ideal works of architecture for you
Graffiti helps Annabelle Selldorf win a conservation award
The architect’s work on Hauser & Wirth’s LA outpost has just won the city’s most prestigious conservancy award
These waterside homes are perfect - so long as you like heights!
Do you suffer from acrophobia? Then you probably shouldn’t take a trip to these rooms with a view. . .
The Making of Modernist Palm Springs in 5 buildings
It’s Modernism Week in the resort town. Here’s how Palm Springs became an architectural oasis in the Cali desert
California Captured - The Zeidler Residence
Marvin Rand was California's most inconspicuous photographer - but he defined its architectural iconography
California Captured – Case Study House #16
Marvin Rand was California's most inconspicuous photographer - but he defined its architectural iconography
Snøhetta proposes A House to Die In near Munch's old home
Why are people objecting to the practice’s house for Bjarne Melgaard, to be built beside Edvard Munch’s estate?
California Captured – The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Marvin Rand was California's most inconspicuous photographer - but he defined its architectural iconography
5 houses on water (that look really great in winter)
Think that living on water only works when the sun is out? These houses will make you think again
California Captured – The Cinerama Dome
Marvin Rand was California's most inconspicuous photographer - but he defined its architectural iconography
MoMA looks back at Yugoslav Brutalism
MoMA's exhibition, Towards a Concrete Utopia, will be the first major US show to study this state's architecture
BIG brings floating villages to San Francisco
Bjarke Ingels hopes his scheme for Islais Creek will not only hold back the sea, but also the Bay Area's house prices
What to expect from Grafton Architects’ 2018 Venice Biennale
Look out for space, freedom, generosity and “an enormous tea cosy” of architectural concerns at this year’s Biennale
Concrete nanotecture to solve Hong Kong's home squeeze
Could these contemporary, concrete micro-apartments be in the pipeline for cash-strapped singletons?
Snarkitecture’s fantasy islands
The NYC design practice has worked a vintage video game into its new set of kitchen islands
California Captured – The Salk Institute
Marvin Rand was California's most inconspicuous photographer - but he defined its architectural iconography
California Captured - The Capitol Records Building
Marvin Rand was California's most inconspicuous photographer - but he defined its architectural iconography
California Captured - The Palevsky House
Marvin Rand was California's most inconspicuous photographer - but he defined its architectural iconography
Could wood be the future of urban architecture?
A new exhibition in London will make a strong case for timber's place amid the skyline of tomorrow
John Pawson's World of Colour: Brown
From African graffiti to an Austrian ski town, Pawson finds beauty and playfulness even at this point in the spectrum
Spectrum and a design museum membership – a gift for creatives
Give inspiration, and let them see the finished products at Cooper Hewitt in NY and the Design Museum in London
John Pawson's World of Colour: Violet
18-3838 Ultra Violet is Pantone's colour for 2018. But did Spectrum author John Pawson discover the colour first?
John Pawson's World of Colour: Black
Some say black is the total absence of colour but Pawson's dark shots let us see chromatic shades more acutely
John Pawson's World of Colour: Green
In his new book Spectrum the architect shows sensitivity towards both built and natural environment
John Pawson's World of Colour: Red
Israeli porcelain, British pop and Kenyan wildlife all find their way into the red section of Spectrum
Don't miss this if you're visiting Miami!
Going to Art Basel Miami Beach? Then make sure you take in these towers, featured in Destination Architecture
Who knew Bruce Nauman did erotica?
It wasn't quite sex but the artist still warned gallery goers that his Body Pressure work might get ...'erotic!'
John Pawson's World of Colour: Yellow
See everything from the Buddhas of Myanmar to the cornfields of England via Pawson’s Spectrum
John Pawson talks colour with Michael Craig-Martin at RIBA
...and signs copies of his new photography book Spectrum - shot on his travels around the world
Don't miss this if you're visiting Paris!
Forget about the Eiffel Tower - Destination Architecture suggests this 2016 reworking of the classical arch
Don't miss this if you're visiting Basel!
Forget about the Munster - Destination Architecture suggests this new Herzog & de Meuron aluminium hall instead
A Brilliant Black Building for Halloween!
This Victorian house, from our new book Black: Architecture in Monochrome, looks perfect for trick or treating
Take a look at these beautiful black buildings
Met Museum and LACMA's Stella Paul deconstructs architecture’s dark side in our new book Black
Happy birthday Tadao Ando!
As he turns 76 take a look at one of his most beautiful, best-loved buildings, Church of the Light
For sale: an audacious rendition of a Frank Lloyd Wright
There may be cheaper ways of owning a Frank Lloyd Wright but few that will satisfy your inner Bond like this
Selldorf and Diller’s rival plans for UK's national treasure
Diller, Scofidio + Renfro and Selldorf Architects have unveiled two very different visions for a UK stately home
Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech takes shape
The city that the designer took as his second home will house a sleek, red-brick museum dedicated to his work
A Movement in a Moment: The International Style
Discover how a 1932 MoMA exhibition helped introduce the entire world to the joys of modern architecture
Peter Chadwick’s beautiful Brutalist car parks
Though some are threatened by the wrecking ball - in the designer's posters these concrete beauties live on
Could this bendy skyscraper take shape in New York?
Can Manhattanites bear another super-scraper? Architects Oiio think so if the idea is original enough
Liz Diller on the successes, flaws and laws of the High Line
The US architect says everyone in her profession should consider the unwanted effects of outrageous success
Who wants a pop-up, mobile beach house?
A British firm has developed a mobile, self-assembling holiday home, which pops up in around 10 minutes
MAD’s sci-fi base for a truly futuristic car company
Faraday Future’s space-age facility might help usher in an age of superfast, zero-emission self-driving vehicles
A sax-shaped tower for Rotterdam's skyline
MVRDV says its twin-tower and connecting bridge “represents musicality, character and elegance”
Frank Lloyd Wright's smart plan to fix the great depression
The architect planned to create prefab farming units - complete with crèches and beauty parlours
A 21st century winter garden for Denmark’s chilly new city
COBE plans to carve out a leafy public park inside this windswept block on the edge of an old port
Preserving Louis Kahn's Salk Institute
The Getty Conservation Institute has worked hard to ensure a modernist masterpiece is restored to former glories
This LA concrete classic is the star of this new xx video
Alasdair McLellan makes a video for The xx with help from Raf Simons, Calvin Klein and a little LA modernism
A Sottsass penthouse in New York - yours for just $19m!
OK, it's pricey, but then again it is a perfectly preserved example of the Memphis founder’s interior design
Kengo Kuma's plans for Paris
The Japanese architect’s new renderings introduce naturalism to France’s most philosophical quarter
BIG, Adjaye and Sou Fujimoto vie for a Scottish bandstand
The world-famous architecture firms are all shortlisted for Edinburgh’s Ross Pavilion Design Competition
We found the perfect spot for our latest book launch!
Here’s why a gallery in a once-derelict London block proved the perfect fit for our new title, Ornament is Crime
Nendo turns tombs into a fun park in Japan
The Japanese architecture and design practice draws on ancient burial motifs (and pizzas) for its first park
How Charles Rennie Mackintosh changed the Vienna Secession
Discover the architect and designer's often overlooked influence on Austria’s famed art movement
MAD make the walls come alive in this Beijing bathroom
The Chinese architects rethink art bathroom conventions setting LEDs into the walls of Roca Beijing
You can see into North Korea from this very big wheel
But you'll have to have a really good head for heights - it's the biggest 'spokeless' one in the world
Amazon plants out its Spheres
The tech firm is bringing a little Amazonian-style biodiversity to Seattle as it propagates its new meeting space
Korea joins The High Line club
The Dutch architecture practice MVRDV has created a linear park for the South Korean capital Seoul
Why John Pawson is the ideal Noguchi Award winner
Everyone from Ian Schrager to Deyan Sudjic thinks the architect is an apt Isamu Noguchi Award honouree
How Sottsass and Scarpa pushed back against modernism
A new ceramics exhibition sheds light on the ways these two Italians subtly rejected modernism’s restraints
A Carlo Scarpa guide to Venice
Heading to La Serenissima for the art? Great! But don't forget to take a look at the city's architecture too
Annabelle Selldorf shows us her new London gallery
Architect says she has added 'minor interventions' to an 18th century London house for Thaddaeus Ropac
In Production - Ornament Is Crime
Architecture & Design Editor Virginia McLeod gives us a sneak peek at a book about to leave our shelves for yours
Diller Scofidio + Renfro make a roof from jeans
The US architectural practice repurposes 300 pairs of denim strides for 2017's Milan Design Week
Did Warhol inspire Peter Marino’s biker look?
The leather-clad archistar expresses his admiration for Andy’s fright wig in 60 Minutes interview
Understand Edwin Lutyens in 5 buildings
The British architect was born on this day 29 March in 1869 - this is how to get his subtle buildings
Anyone got $15 million for this Sottsass Silicon Valley home?
Built for IDEO's David Kelley, the entire dwelling was laid out in an Italian gym; the furniture was built to scale, dissembled, shipped to the US, and rebuilt by Italian craftsmen - sadly, the great book on the table is not included!
A new home for the Hollywood sign?
Hirsuta's winning competition design could rival landmark LA residences by John Lautner and Frank Gehry
Will MAD finally get to build the Lucas Museum?
After attempts in Chicago and San Francisco LA looks likely to play host to the billion dollar building
How is BIG’s Lego house coming along?
Pretty well it seems - Bjarke Ingels should have it finished by September!
When Lina Bo Bardi built her own home
Celebrating the world's first female brutalist architect on International Women's Day
Why the Pritzker Prize went to a trio
RCR Arquitectes - the first trio to win the prize see collaboration as a way to resist individualism
And the award for best book in the Oscars green room goes to Charles-Édouard Jeanneret!
Aagh! We mean Le Corbusier! Our Le Grand book took centre stage backstage last night. . .
Frank Gehry talks creativity and staying strong
87-year-old Pritzker Laureate offers advice in video to promote his new online Masterclass
The wood that inspired 2017's Serpentine Pavilion
Diébédo Francis Kéré says his pavilion draws from the trees of his African home town
Uncovering the hidden gems of Palm Springs
Phaidon author Sam Lubell talks mid-century architecture fans through the town's highlights
London hair salon swaps mirrors for art
Sam Jacob Studio takes the customers’ minds off the cut and into artistic contemplation
Miracles of Mobitecture - The Sound Booth
Barry Prophet's hut on Lake Nipissing, Ontario is a listening room for the sounds generated on the outside
China's Rose Museum puts the petal to the metal
NEXT Architects create a striking, stainless-steel home for floral appreciation in the Chinese capital, Beijing
Liz Diller plans an opera for the High Line
The architect was inspired to create her forthcoming work following a protest from one of the park's neighbours
Russia's revolution and the buildings that never were
See pictures and plans by El Lissitzky, Sokolov and the Vesnin Brothers at The Design Museum's Imagine Moscow
Mies van der Rohe’s plan for London
What would the capital have looked like had Mies been allowed to create a Seagram Building for Britain?
Miracles of Mobitecture - The Mailroom
This immersive installation on a frozen lake has a desk at which guests can read, write and share experiences
Miracles of Mobitecture - The Starlight Room
Raniero Campigotto's camping cabin in the Dolomites is set on skis, built by artisans - and perfect for stargazing
Miracles of Mobitecture - Richard Horden's Ski Haus
It's winter so let's take a look at the runners (and the riders who invented them) from our new book Mobitecture
Kengo Kuma's high-tech take on wood
The Japanese architect draws from natural forms to create these wooden-slatted chalets on Bali's southern coast
Viñoly joins other starchitects in Miami
Architect's two tower condo, One River Point, boasts skylofts and a skybridge for 'elegantly expensive living'
How The Jetsons inspired a 3-mile-high super tall
Engineers Arcon say the materials and technology to build this future cityscape already exist
Aren't these wooden buildings beautiful?
400 million years old and wood (finally) gets its own book and show!
Bold new stadiums for Chelsea FC and the Raiders
Two world-class sports brands are teaming up with equally prominent architects to oversee new homes
Rem Koolhaas creates a new Factory for Manchester
OMA leans on the city's legendary televisual and musical heritage for its huge new cultural venue
JFK airport gets a $10 billion upgrade
Could a huge cash injection turn this 68-year-old entry point into the kind of airport New York deserves?
Elemental Living - Down Under
Resembling an ancient settlement and built using rammed earth and local crushed rock, Earth House comprises a series of living and sleeping spaces, all connected by a corridor the architect calls the 'disappearing street'
Steven Holl’s wave-like library for Malawi
The brilliant US architect brings his contemplative building design skills to one of the poorest areas of Africa
BIG to rebrand the Nordic countries
Bjarke Ingels’ practice joins Area9, Ole Lund Creative and Mensch in an ambitious rebrand of the region
MAD's Fake Hills solve real world problems
Our new book shows how this coastal block draws on the local geography to bring nature into its residents’ lives
MAD's twisted home for traditional wooden art
Our new book describes how MAD architects created a polished steel home for a wood museum
Ma Yansong on his MAD Tiananmen Square forest
The MAD Architect looks back on his scheme for Beijing and wonders whether he could improve Western cities
How this rural retreat mimics its environment
Look what happens when contemporary architecture meets splendid isolation via our book Elemental Living
When Mies went wild in the country
Our new book Elemental Living looks at the great modernist’s bucolic getaway project, the Farnsworth House
Herzog & de Meuron mix art and science at the RCA
Discover how a Phaidon author is helping the Swiss practice rework the Royal College of Art Campus
Snøhetta help Saudis see the future
Could this new building enable one of the world's biggest oil states to find its place once the wells run dry?
Zaha Hadid and the first wooden football stadium
Architects reveal plans for a 5,000 capacity new home for British eco-friendly side Forest Green Rovers
T Magazine’s Elemental Living weekend getaway
The NY Times style mag offered a virtual weekend escape via Instagram and our book Elemental Living
John Pawson turns bunker into ancient art gallery
This Berlin bunker might appear rather brutal but it's now home to some rarefied East Asian art and furnishings
Could Trump's wall become a Luis Barragán tribute?
That's certainly the proposal from Mexican architects who've painted the candidate's border barrier Barragán pink
Will this LA house be in Blade Runner 2049?
This Frank Lloyd Wright building doubled as Deckard's apartment in the first film. Could it make the sequel?
George Lucas goes MAD for Star Wars museum
Following the unveiling of two new museum proposals, we look at what drew the director towards MAD Architects
A high-rise for Africa's slums
Nigerian designer Olalekan Jeyifous envisions a multi-storey dystopia for Lagos’s poorest citizens
Have fun at Annabelle Selldorf’s YMCA
Reworked by Selldorf Architects the YMCA where Warhol was once a member is on the market for $14.5m
MAD's glowing home for China's leading orchestra
China Philharmonic Orchestra has just revealed its brilliant new Beijing concert hall designed by MAD Architects
How Aussie builders could save this Brutalist gem
Sydney's construction unions ban their members from knocking down architecturally important Sirius building
Steven Holl autographs his new Queens library!
Architect joins community leaders at the topping out ceremony for Hunters Point Community Library, NY
A kiln-style museum for porcelain's ancient home
The history of porcelain will be told in this extraordinary fired-earth structure destined for north-eastern China
Could Atlanta build a High Line over this highway?
City planners hope to bring this linear park to a newly built space above a busy city freeway
Could we shrink, curve or sink NYC's Bus Terminal?
We all know the Port Authority Bus Terminal is a little broken -opinions differ however, on how best it might be fixed
A giant cube will take shape on WTC site
Take a look at these newly unveiled designs for lower Manhattan's next arts venue - courtesy of ex-OMA architects
Heatherwick channels MC Escher in New York
The designer weaves together 154 flights of stairs for Vessel, a new work destined for Hudson Yards
Sou Fujimoto and Douglas Coupland's future vision
The architect's new pavilion provides display space for the writer's 22nd century billboard
No, this Thai skyscraper is not falling down
Buro Ole Scheeren leaves a few chunks out of the country's tallest skyscraper to reveal its inner life
This once derelict Breuer home is now worth $2.3m
The tiny Massachusetts cottage, created with Bauhaus boss Walter Gropius, is one of his masterworks
BIG bend a car port into a luxury villa
Bjarke Ingels’ curled-up modern house packs in an inner garden, great views and space for vintage cars
Inside Yayoi Kusama's Glass House
What Philip Johnson's classic piece of domestic architecture looked like after Yayoi was done with it
What's behind the trend for twisting skyscrapers?
New report ranks 28 twisting scrapers in the world right now and explains why there are many more to come. . .
A stadium to keep sports stars and fans cool in Dubai
Could this bowl-shaped, water-cooled building keep the temperature down on the pitch and in the stands?
Snøhetta bring gardens to this Lebanese bank
The firm's winning design for Banque Libano-Française’s headquarters also includes amphitheatre-style seating
Tom Ford’s Tadao Ando ranch hits the market
$75m gets you the designer's ranch, built by the Pritzker Prize laureate, right next to an old cowboy movie set
A hothouse High Line?
Could Philip Johnson's World's Fair relic be the next piece of NY architecture to undergo a radical reinvention?
5 things we learned from Peter Marino on Artspace
The art-world architect opens up on Warhol, childhood trauma and meeting the world via the New York art scene
Turning a Turkish sea wall into a luxury island
US firm Forum Studio hope their Pearl of Istanbul project will hold back the waves and draw in the global elite
The MAD building for the future of Chinese fashion
China's leading high-end womenswear producer hopes this Ma Yansong building with give it a design edge
A Modernist house that spins in the wind
Could Alex Schweder and Ward Shelley’s ReActor house help you with your domestic relationships?
Watch Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s Shed come to life
In a new animation DS+R show how their NYC building will actually move to house a wide range of programming
Annabelle Selldorf: from kitchen to art gallery
Watch the architect describe how she went from worktops to Werner in New York
Steven Holl's summer house for a 19thC painter
The architect has drawn up a folly plan for the Hudson River School artist Frederic Edwin Church's house
Olympics architect creates Museum of London
London architect Asif Khan has reworked the city's Smithfield Meat Market in this winning design
London’s V&A is set to move East!
Renderings for London’s new Olympic Park cultural centre and creative hub have just been released
Why Frank Lloyd Wright didn't make UNESCO's list
Le Corbusier was added to the World Heritage List a few days ago but not Wright - there's a reason for that
What will happen to this Wild Art building?
Can the Longaberger Basket Company, Ohio, find a buyer for its idiosyncratic office building?
Annabelle Selldorf - 'Good taste has gotten a bad rep'
'Good taste actually has nothing to do with being proper' she tells Elle Decoration in illuminating new interview
Shigeru Ban's timber trapezoid tower for Vancouver
The Japanaese architect's first building in the city will be the tallest hybrid timber structure in the world
UNESCO honours Le Corbusier
17 buildings by the master modernist including Villa Savoye and Unité d'Habitation, added to World heritage list
OMA rework a brutalist Paris warehouse
See how Rem Koolhaas has helped turn Entrepôt Macdonald into a welcoming urban environment
Classic interiors meet modern Miami
Look at what happens when French interior designer Jean-Louis Deniot works with the architects Arquitectonica
Zaha Hadid's hyacinth hotel blooms in the desert
The architect may have passed away but plans for this flower-inspired structure have just been unveiled in the Gulf
Álvaro Siza's latest project is tinged with sadness
Portuguese artist Nadir Afonso never lived to see the brilliant new museum dedicated to his work
Annabelle Selldorf reinvents another London gallery
The architect is set to incorporate a modern art space into historic Ely House for Thaddaeus Ropac
Le Corbusier's Brutal rooftop is now a trompe l'oeil
Xavier Veilhan’s Open Sky exhibition aims to re-engage visitors with Le Corbusier’s “monumental” housing block
James Corner brings icebergs to Washington DC
The British-born landscape architect’s new installation at the National Building Museum mimics a glacial ice field
Barbican set to get all Jutaku next year
Gallery endorses Phaidon’s love of East Asian architecture in forthcoming show The Japanese House
How icebergs shape this Olafur Eliasson building
He hopes his Ice Void will make the experience of visiting a Greenland glacier more understandable for all
Sou Fujimoto rethinks the rented apartment
Fancy sharing a TV with everyone in your block? Take a look at Sou’s radical ideas at Tokyo's House Vision show
Why Steven Holl punched holes in his library
The architect's wall cuts add drama to this Hunters Point building while also paying tribute to a local landmark
The story behind this Brutalist beauty
The structure on This Brutal World's cover may look mid century but it was actually built by Herzog & de Meuron
How you can save this Marcel Breuer building
The architect’s American Press Institute could be flattened – you can help hold back the wrecking ball
This is Norman Foster's first building in Brooklyn
Up and coming Red Hook gets a glossy, glassy waterfront office block courtesy of the British architect
Bjarke Ingels talks about his Serpentine pavilion
The Danish architect told us about the cathedral-like qualities of his new creation at last night's launch in London
Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater explained
Discover how this perfect mid-century holiday home, kick-started the brilliant US architect's flagging career
When Breuer joined the Bauhaus
How a brilliant student made the cutting-edge products of the design school available to everyone
Can the Venice Biennale change how the Brits live?
Forget the models and drawings the British Pavilion is addressing the UK's biggest challenge for young people
Why is the USA staging a postcard show in Venice?
Find out why the US Pavilion at the 2016 Architecture Biennale is focusing on just one troubled city - Detroit
Sou Fujimoto's sensible building with a silly name
The Japanese architect has designed Potato Head's latest outpost in Hong Kong
Who will save Breuer's Brutalist Atlanta library?
Some see this building as the Whitney of the South. So why is the city so keen to demolish this masterwork?
How the Met Breuer went back to the future
Could the Met's restoration of this fifty-year old building point the way for contemporary art gallery architecture?
Coop Himmelb(l)au creates two museums in one
The Austrian practice has designed two co-joined museums for Shenzhen - one for art, the other for architecture
Take a look at Zaha Hadid's incredible paintings
The late Pritzker laureate's unrealised painterly plans go on display at a career retrospective in Venice this month
Brutalist car park becomes a wooden skyscraper
Well it's one way to turn a much loved but outdated 20th century relic into a 21st century apartment complex. . .
How the trees shaped Steven Holl’s latest building
Architect's drawings reveal how he used the canopies of Pennsylvania's trees to guide the form of this arts building
Annabelle Selldorf's grand designs
Find out how the NY architect built the new Steinway Hall inside the old Center of International Photography
New Sou Fujimoto book explains how he did this!
The balconies on the architect’s L’arbre Blanc building in Montpelier have confounded everyone – until now
Annabelle Selldorf hits the right note in NYC
Iconic artists, gallerists and curators all dropped in to the contemporary architect’s recent Phaidon book launch
Could this Dubai tower become the world’s tallest?
The Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava hopes his structure will top the Burj Khalifa once it is completed
Will this wooden supertall rise above London?
The world’s tallest timber structure has been proposed for the iconic brutalist Barbican estate
Lost art of letter writing makes post office go digital
Toronto Architects RDH are bringing 21st century technology into a 19th century public building
Volker Giencke's glazed orange cone rises in Latvia
Over 100 years after funding began the 'Genius of Graz's' glazed amber concert hall opens in Liepāja
Annabelle Selldorf remembers Zaha Hadid
'She didn't represent the conventional model' says the New York-based architect and Portfolio and Projects subject
John Pawson does Jutaku!
The British architect discovered his love of simplicity in Japan - now he’s returned to build a house there
Gaudí-inspired house perches precariously
Some people might resist pitching their home on a 42 degree angle - but not this young Spanish couple
'Mum I DO want to go to school today!'
Studio 505 split in two earlier this year but they've left us with some great work - including this school in Singapore
Herzog & de Meuron design new gallery for Vitra
Swiss architecture practice complete second project in Germany for giants of the design world
Foster pays homage to Mies with Manhattan tower
Foster + Partners' new tower slips neatly into the space next to Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building
Zaha Hadid 1950 - 2016
Dame Zaha Hadid died of a heart attack today. here are some of the great buildings she's left us
Zaha Hadid by Sir Peter Cook
'She ventured where few would dare, if Paul Klee took a line for a walk, Zaha took the surfaces for a dance'
Discover the big ideas behind some tiny architecture
Come to our RIBA talk next Tuesday and find out just what goes into making today's tiny buildings a big surprise
Erm... what have they done to Central Park?
Winning plan for urban oasis proposes a horizontal 'sidescraper' underneath newly landscaped rocks and foliage
Lunch is a tall order at this Mexican restaurant
Tall Arquitectos has designed this cantilevered restaurant for a ravine four times the size of the Grand Canyon
Can BIG fix that scraper above Penn Station?
Bjarke Ingels has a frilly plan for the unloved 1960s building above New York station
A Movement in a Moment: Brutalism
All you need to know about a hard, unforgiving style of architecture that many of us have grown to love
Looking for the perfect Brutalist getaway?
Fresh air! Restored concrete! Good reasons why brutal architecture lovers should stay at Van Wassenhove House
A Brutalist guide to the film High-Rise
The architecture that informed the new movie adaptation, courtesy of This Brutal World's Peter Chadwick
Bring a surfboard to BIG’s new Redskins stadium
And your skates in winter, all thanks to a new plan to add watersports to this Washington football facility
Happy Birthday National Theatre!
Life begins at 40 today for Denys Lasdun's masterpiece, featured in our new architecture book This Brutal World
Sou Fujimoto creates timber tower French vineyard
The Japanese architect spearheads revamp of Bordeaux as it opens a high speed train link with Paris
A mosque for Foster's World Trade Centre
British architect Amanda Levete's new religious building combines Islamic traditions with 21st century technology
‘There's a spiritual quality about looking at art you don’t want to undermine’ - Annabelle Selldorf
On the opening of Hauser Wirth & Schimmel the architect describes the power of sculpting art spaces
The phantasmagorical world of Vasily Klyukin
Has this Russian-born banker turned design dilettante created the architectural equivalent of outsider art?
A truly transparent Islamic Centre for NYC
Designing an Islamic Centre for NYC was not an easy commission but we think Koray Duman has pulled it off
Dada's birthplace to be recreated for Manifesta 11
Cabaret Voltaire will be recreated with a 21st century twist for the Christian Jankowski-curated event this summer
On International Women's Day meet Annabelle!
Learn how architect Annabelle Selldorf introduced classicism, utility and restraint into today's art galleries
The London playground inspired by a Japanese photo
Look at these Hélène Binet images of Asif Khan’s new playground inspired by a Rinko Kawauchi photograph
Sou Fujimoto and David Chipperfield reinvent Paris
Fujimoto’s Thousand Trees scheme wins one of the 23 sites earmarked for, ahem, root-and branch regeneration
Take a look at these tiny kaleidoscopic buildings
New book Nanotecture brings together some of the smallest best built things including these playful creations
We join Charlize Theron backstage at the Oscars!
Did you spot the ultimate Phaidon shelfie in the green room at last night's 88th Academy Awards?
Steven Holl updates Mumbai’s oldest museum
Architect cuts apertures into gallery spaces allowing exactly 25 lumens of light to flood interior spaces
Modern new look for folk museum
This timber-clad extension to the Romsdal Museum is designed to complement some far older local buildings
Take a look at these shiny, tiny buildings
Our book Nanotecture brings together some of the smallest built things, including these great reflective dwellings
Animating Frank Lloyd Wright
Hear the great architect talk religion, nature and money, in this little-seen, newly animated 1957 interview
BIG goes small for Serpentine Pavilion
Bjarke Ingels joins Asif Khan, Kunlé Adeyemi, Barkow Leibinger and Yona Friedman in Nanotecture celebration
MoMA hosts anti-starchitect show
A Japanese Constellation demonstrates how architecture is best viewed as a collaborative enterprise
Álvaro Siza takes to the stage in Catalonia
Red brick building in small town is latest example of the slow burn architect's mastery of simple, austere beauty
Tokyo’s cloud-harvesting vertical commuter town
Kohn Pedersen Fox and Leslie E. Robertson Associates aim to build it by 2045. Will they succeed?
A bright new look for the City of Light
Peripheriques Marin+Trottin Architectes hatch multi-faceted, novel plan to deal with the density of urban Paris
Snøhetta gives Philly a Silicon Valley style library
This Philadelphia university's glass, stone and timber building majors on break-out spaces, not book stacks
Annabelle Selldorf talks galleries and garbage
The acclaimed architect discusses her wide-ranging portfolio of projects at Cooper Union this week
Frank Lloyd Wright's $3m starter home
Learn why this LA house, originally built for middle-income Americans, has moved well into seven figure territory
A high-density High Line for Stockholm
Could this inspired residential railway regeneration project break ground in the Swedish capital?
Will this cubist brutal building rise in Costa Rica?
Brooklyn architects CAZA propose new congress hall of enormous concrete cubes in the placid capital San José
Cool new look for Zurich's National Museum
Concrete and geometric abstraction delights in Christ & Gantenbein's new addition to Gustav Gull's original building
A Jutaku-style home for Main Street America
One New Orleans architect finds a distinctly east-Asian way to make America’s starter-homes affordable
The only time you'll see a cat story on Phaidon.com
Probably. Nanotecture is packed with very small houses - here are some that only the smallest can fit into
A futuristic treatment for a Texan library
Could this strikingly modern take on a public book-lending institution touch down in Houston some time soon?
The Steven Holl sculpture that will become a home
The work, going on show in NYC, forms part of Holl’s mission to rethink the way a building's space is used
BIG 's new twist on The High Line
Danish architecture practice's pair of contorted skyscrapers are destined for Manhattan's Meatpacking District
When Marcel Breuer built a brutalist ski resort
The Bauhaus founder's work in Flaine still inspires - just ask our brutal architecture book author Peter Chadwick
When catastrophe leads to creative design
A new RIBA show looks at the wealth of architectural creativity that springs up in the wake of natural disasters
Why 2016's Pritzker winner makes half-built houses
The Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena wins praise for the parts of the building he chooses to leave out
The capsule hotel with a sea view
Gianluca Santosuosso's MORPHotel concept offers a more aesthetically pleasing alternative to cruise ships
What links MAD and Benjamin Britten?
MAD's new music venue in China has something in common with composer's one in Suffolk. Can you guess what?
Is this New York's strangest new supertall?
Mark Foster Gage's proposed Manhattan structure looks like it was created by a modern day Michelangelo
Ferrari designers take to the skies
Pininfarina and AECOM beat Zaha, Fuksas and Grimshaw to create towering tulip design for new Istanbul airport
The architects creating 2016's landmark art spaces
John Pawson, Annabelle Selldorf and co. ensure that 2016's new exhibition spaces look as good as the art on show
Steven Holl’s Copenhagen towers get the go ahead
Work will start on an ambitious harbour project - seven years after Holl got the gig
OMA architects talk about their Prince Plaza project
OMA's David Gianotten and Bauke Albada tell us why the future for architecture in China might just be local
How Isamu Noguchi pioneered land art
On the anniversary of the sculptor’s birth, we look at how his land work served as an example for other artists
The original Desert Modernist house goes up for sale
The Palm Springs home once owned by the architect that defined this hot-and-dry style is on the market for $1.75m
We just launched The High Line book!
And where better to do it than overlooking the park itself with some of the biggest names in architecture and art
Is it a stadium? Is it a swimming pool? No it's a mixed use surf park having an identity crisis!
'It’s not a crazy, billion dollar project, it’s feasible and we could get it going as soon as footy finishes' say MJA Studio
Steven Holl’s dance project premiers on Friday
The architect’s collaboration with New York choreographer Jessica Lang opens at Chicago’s Architecture Biennial
Steven Holl comes to a halt in Moscow
Impressive geometric housing scheme close to the Kremlin sadly fails to get the go ahead
Mussolini’s Roman palazzo is Fendi's new HQ
Mussolini's Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana is now home to the fashion house - more reason to wear black if visiting
Steven Holl on Childhood, China and The High Line
The architect recalls building boyhood tree houses - as well as some more recent and rather trickier commissions
Will Renzo Piano get another Shard off the ground?
The architect's new plans for a glass tower in Paddington could fall foul of London's anti-skyscraper lobby
The grass is greener at new Euronews HQ
The colour of Jakob + Macfarlane's new HQ for news channel references the nearby river (so don't eat the fish!)
Steven Holl on the art happenings of 70s New York
The brilliant US architect remembers the early influence of Joseph Beuys, Vito Acconci and Richard Serra
Kengo Kuma plays with topography in China
The Japanese architect works in local, vernacular flourishes to his China Academy of Arts’ Folk Art Museum
Steven Holl on the buildings that shaped him
How Seattle’s Space Needle, Rome’s Pantheon, and Le Corbusier’s Unité d'Habitation informed his work
BIG blends city living with the country life
Bjarke Ingels' 79 & Park complex manages to merge 140 apartments into Stockholm's Royal National City Park
Steven Holl on the early days of Zaha Hadid
The acclaimed American architect recalls his encounters with the Pritzker Prize winner in London in the 70s
Steven Holl on New York's architecture fail
"No one would call it architecture - it’s just rent-collecting space!" he says about the new look Manhattan
Fancy a quick lie down at Frieze? You're in luck!
Art collective ÅYR build a six-room installation at the art fair in a comment on 'the commodification of cosiness'
Why Jeff Wall likes this Herzog & de Meuron gallery
The Phaidon fine-art photographer appreciates what the Swiss firm has planned for his hometown Vancouver
Steven Holl - 'Architecture brings art into our lives'
In the first part of a wide ranging interview the great architect tells us how buildings connect us to the spiritual
Rafael Viñoly's Sears Tower homage
Architect unveils new Chicago South Loop proposal - to be built one tower at a time
A hotel to hold back the Gobi Desert
Could Margot Krasojević's high-concept sand-turbine hotel save China’s fragile northern environment?
How Diller Scofidio + Renfro put hidden art on show
At LA's new museum the Broad, visitors can see the works in storage, thanks to the building's ingenious design
Drone targets BIG's first New York building
Drone footage captures the scale and unusual beauty of Bjarke Engels' Via 57 West as it rises above Manhattan
Why do Japanese houses look so unusual?
That's the question Naomi Pollock asked herself on arriving in Japan - 27 years later she answers it in Jutaku
James Corner's High Line vision
The landscape architect and co-creator of the High Line’s unique design recalls his first trip to the abandoned railway - and the ways in which he helped transform it into a work of art that attracted six million visitors last year
Frank Gehry's vision for Sunset Boulevard
Could this development of 249 residential units create a “walkable community” in LA? Gehry thinks so
Chile’s answer to Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye
What do you make of this Latin American architect’s interpretation of modernism's greatest country house?
The skyscraper that aims to open up Africa
Could the Casablanca Finance City Tower by Morphosis prove to be the beginning of a beautiful friendship?
Planting a forest in one of America's dirtiest cities
Could this proposal to bring an arboreal landscape into the centre of Cleveland help fix the city's problems?
How China's regulations gave rise to this building
Dutch NEXT firm have created this undulating exterior to fit this apartment block into a crowded city centre
Liz Diller on the High Line’s surprising success
The architect and co-author of our High Line book describes the park’s conception and its subsequent popularity
Putting spiritual back into our cityscape
Can plants bring harmony to our fast-urbanising world? The designers in 30:30 Landscape Architecture think so
Zaha Hadid’s world-record breaking bridge
The firm’s winning competition entry looks beautiful, and it could also prove to be an engineering marvel too
China's caveman capital gets a new look
HASSELL Studios finds novel ways to display and preserve China's prehistoric heartland in Nanjing
Zaha Hadid's High Line installation
The British-Iraqi architect has turned her firm's protective site hoarding into a swooping sculptural tunnel
A space-age home with aircraft stairs
This sleek suburban Spanish home by Barcelona firm NOEM packs includes some innovative, recycled features
Visit the world's wildest domestic environment
Our new book Jutaku illustrates just how varied, innovative and beautiful Japanese housing stock has become
Daniel Libeskind’s Pyramid for Jerusalem
The architect hopes his 26-storey tower will provide “a vibrant public space in the heart of the ancient city”
Check out the concert hall that thinks it's a castle
Mies van der Rohe Award given to Barcelona duo Barozzi Veiga's new fortress-like Philharmonic Hall
Snøhetta takes to the mountains in style
Scandanavian superstar architecture practice turns its attention to the Italian Alps - just in time for winter
Steven Holl designs expansion of Kennedy Centre
Architect breaks down the barriers between artists and public in Texas, Virginia, Iowa - and now Washington
Landscaping the cities of the future
30 30 Landscape Architecture author Meaghan Kombol gives us the lowdown on the new scenery of the city
Richard Rogers divulges spy museum design
The most secretive industry in the world is about to get a more welcoming museum - feel free to share
Is this the first architecture CGI to feature a selfie?
BIG's Metzler Tower in Frankfurt is a graceful addition to the city's skyline - but what's going on at ground level?
All you need to know about Landscape Architecture
It can make the morning commute bearable and downtime more up - but what exactly is landscape architecture?
Hadid and Libeskind give Le Corbusier a makeover
The architects are proposing additions to Villa Le Lac - the house Le Corb built for his parents by a Swiss lake
The High Line - by the people who made it
Get a first-hand account of the inspirations and tribulations behind the creation of NYC's transformative linear park
What would you do with Preston Bus Station?
Five designs have been put forward to turn this brutalist Grade II listed classic into a youth-oriented civic space
Daniel Libeskind’s amazing glazing
The award-winning US architect makes his South American debut with this classy, glassy residential tower
What makes Steven Holl and Le Corbusier alike?
Learn how the architect took on the ambitions of Le Corb et al, shaping (and sketching) them for a new era
Ex-student reworks Cornell's 104-year-old library
Viennese architect Wolfgang Tschapeller returns to his alma mater to renovate the university's Rand Hall
Oyster shell museum will celebrate Mexican culture
Mexican firm FR-EE hopes this unusually shaped building will help preserve and promote local traditions
If you could build your house on the side of a cliff. . .
Would it look like this one? Click through to see OPA's 'subterranean Casa Malaparte' proposal, Casa Brutale
Moon Hoon's display of brotherly love
Korean architecture practice creates a brace of lunar landscape-inspired properties for two brothers
Name the architects behind the Serpentine Pavilions
Pentagram helps the Serpentine launch its 2015 Build Your Own Pavilion project by illustrating every one of them
Whatever you do, don't look down!
The Inside Awards in Singapore celebrate the world's best interiors - take a look at these great images
MAD build hilltop village in Beverly Hills
Chinese practice reinvents the Mediterranean hill town for 21st century LA - complete with vertical garden
From Real Estate to Surreal Estate
MoMA's latest exhibition looks at one of the most radical reinterpretations of domestic architecture ever
A+ Architecture – the Grotto Sauna
This Canadian sauna uses modern technology and age-old craft to create a breathtaking, lakeside interior
Foster banishes the car underground in China
Architect's new project cleverly relocates traffic beneath the feet of Wuhan residents and workers
A first look at the 2015 Serpentine Pavilion
A gallery of images detailing the construction of this year's pavilion by Madrid architects SelgasCano
Libeskind and Hadid remember their childhoods
New show sees prominent architects and designers reflecting on their formative experiences as kids
Is this ex-OMA architect 'doing a Dujardin'?
Ole Scheeren's Vancouver skyscraper reminds us of the work of Shooting Space photographer Philip Dujardin
Margot Krasojevic's Himalayan snow shelter
Zaha Hadid protegé's latest structure boasts a sci-fi power system to warm the heart of any lost trekker
Norman Foster remembers Louis Kahn
The Pritzker Laureate pays tribute to the pioneering architect on accepting The Louis Kahn Memorial Award
Herzog & de Meuron’s forest-inspired stadium
Swiss architects draw inspiration from the slim trees in the nearby Landes Forest of Bordeaux
Live-sleep-eat-in-it office space unveiled
Hotel in a shipping container aims to capitalise on underused urban space - good bye work life balance. .
New shopping mall resembles a flower display
Vincent Callebaut's latest development aims to up the feel good factor - good for consumers and retailers
A+ Architecture – Restaurant Steirereck
This winning Austrian restaurant manages to combine contemporary design with a high degree of cosiness
BIG and OMA make Lego on the High Line
And you can join in and design your own city of the future at the Collectivity Project
Steven Holl keeps it in the family
How did a small gallery on the Hudson come to show works by the prominent architect - and his brother?
Could OMA’s new hotel redefine Dutch architecture?
Rem Koolhaas’s firm hopes its plans for the Netherlands' largest hotel will shape a new look for Amsterdam
A+ Architecture – The Three Cusps Chalet
This Portuguese renovation from our Architizer A+Awards book combines local styles with a Brazilian influence
A+ Architecture - House in Tamatsu
This residential house by Ido, Kenji from our Architizer A+Awards book is a truly captivating piece of microtecture
How this floating prison could power a small town
Zaha Hadid protégé Margot Krasojevic says her sea jail could generate enough electricity for 2000 homes
New Sufi centre channels Philip Johnson's spirit
This Californian Sufi sanctuary draws inspiration from one of the Pritzker laureate’s earlier Islamic-influenced works
A+Architecture - Ice & Snow Apartment
Architizer+Awards 2015 features 100 of the best buildings in the world today including this Chinese ski chalet
A great night at the Architizer A+Awards
Architizer's A+Awards celebrate the diversity of the world’s architecture at New York gala
Gombrich explains the Palace of Versailles
As the UK goes to the polls we look at how, 351 years ago, another European leader influenced the masses
Shanghai's History Museum has an organic form
Glass wall of atrium 'inspired by the cellular structure of plants and animals' say architects Perkins + Will
OMA's 'race against time' for Venice Biennale
The architect overseeing OMA's work on the Chinese Pavilion tells us what to expect next month
The Winter Olympics resort that serves as a TV screen
LEDs set into the façade of this South Korean resort could allow its guests to watch the 2018 Games
French architects plan a vertical city in the Sahara
OXO Architectes and Nicolas Laisne Associes' la Ville Tour des Sables will create a souk in the sky
Richard Rogers’s parents house is going to Harvard
The architect’s late sixties creation will serve as a London base for the university’s Graduate School of Design
Modern stadium draws on ancient motifs
Can you spot the medieval architectural influences in this Anatolian soccer facility, currently under construction?
Stories from the Secession - Otto Wagner's revolt
How the inspired Austrian architect came to rebel against his own work, as revealed in our book Art in Vienna
'Even modernists like Mies loved bricks. . .'
From Bavarian viaducts to Mesopotamian zigurats, Brick author William Hall also loves them - we ask him why
The Store Detective: Carturesti Carusel, Bucharest
Books provide a happy ending to this cavernous 19th century bank building in Bucharest’s old town
A stainless steel tribute to Jean Prouvé
Anne Démians' Quai Quest in Nancy, France, draws on Prouvé’s mid-century work to reinvigorate his home city
The LA landmark set to become a design museum
Is this contemporary art and design museum just the kind of investment Los Angeles’ Old Bank District needs?
Why would an architect burn a wooden building?
The Phaidon Atlas focuses on an ancient Japanese preservation technique employed by contemporary architects
Hiroshi Sugimoto creates his own museum
After his criticism of museums by OMA and Libeskind the photographer is designing his own coastal art complex
One thing not to miss in Paris
Spring has sprung and with it comes a new Wallpaper* City Guide, packed with cool things to see and do
Why Heatherwick's hub is made for modern learning
The British designer hopes this towering new university facility in Singapore will encourage impromptu exchanges
What was Louis Kahn working on, the day he died?
The architect died at Penn Station on this day in 1974, when his briefcase was opened it contained these sketches
Michael Graves RIP
One of the influential 'New York Five' architects and designer of the postmodern Blue Bird Kettle dies at 80
What's Bjarke Ingels done to the skyscraper?
Danish firm's wedge-shaped blocks fit into modest city plot and boast plenty of room at the top
This year's Pritzker Prize winner on last year's
Shortly before his death this week, Frei Otto outlined his admiration for Shigeru Ban - this is what he told us
Bricks are beautiful at this boutique hotel
Bangkok firm Onion creates remarkably modern hotel from remarkably ancient man-made building material
Sacred Stories: The Buddhist Meditation Centre
How a group of Dutch Buddhists came to meditate in a thirteen-bedroom mansard barn in rural Europe
Heatherwick and BIG design Google’s moveable HQ
The European architects have designed a complex that can be reconfigured to suit the firm's changing needs
Paris gets a concrete wave right beside Euro Disney
Paris architect Jean-Philippe Pargade uses bridge-building technology to create undulating academic facility
Five buildings bringing brick back
How one of the oldest materials is being worked into contemporary architecture in some very surprising ways
The latest example of the Guggenheim effect?
Arquipélago - Contemporary Arts Centre in the Azores hopes to draw in an international art and architecture crowd
Ancient river inspires Taipei's stunning new museum
KRIS YAO|ARTECH says its New Taipei City Museum of Art draws inspiration from the site's natural environment
Who fancies a bit of African Modernism?
The Vitra Design Museum's new exhibition examines the striking buildings that arose after African independence
Playmobil create a Bauhaus-inspired 'mansion'
Is the German toy firm trying to court big kids with a play house inspired by another great Teutonic institution?
Sacred Stories: The GKD Crematorium
Learn how an Indian practice adapted ancient burial practices to suit one of the country's fastest growing cities
Peter Zumthor's tourism designs for an old zinc mine
The Swiss architect and Pritzker laureate works industrial-style buildings into Norway's Allmannajuvet gorge
Three libraries that are changing our cities
As this latest Phaidon Atlas Focus shows, a change in book lending has also altered our urban environment
Sacred Stories - LJG Synagogue
How the Dutch practice SeARCH created what's only the second synagogue in the Netherlands since WWII
Brutalist icons go from concrete to cardboard
We love brutalist architecture so the thought of erecting some on our desk pleases us #SorryWorkMates
Inside OMA's Super Theater
OMA's Inge Goudsmit explains how Taiwan's theatrical history led the team to push the limits of this new space
Sacred Stories - Prayer and Meditation Pavilion
How Studio Tamassociati accommodated two ancient religions in one striking, contemporary place of worship
Sacred Stories - Bruder Klaus Field Chapel
How did Pritzker laureate Peter Zumthor come to build this tiny, rural chapel? Our book, Sacred Spaces, explains
Coop Himmelb(l)au's Flying Garden Tower
The Austrian practice designed this centrepiece tower for Frankfurt’s new airport
Will this sci-fi city get off the ground?
Suspended over a quarry, Asymptote's Hunan eco city boasts hi-tech transport and robot-delivered takeouts
5 buildings making power production look good
Latest Phaidon Atlas Editors' Focus looks at power plants that please the eye
This library shows how beautiful bricks can be
A young Finnish practice used an old building material to construct the country's biggest university library
Where will Obama read his Phaidon books?
Snøhetta, Allied Works and Mos Architects battle it out for presidential library seal of approval in Hawaii
Take a look at the new wave of Mexican architecture
From funerary bunkers to wineries, the latest Atlas Focus offers sharp insight into some innovative buildings
Rocks and plants festoon new Tapei Tower
'Housing project is a fusion between local nature and primitive rocks,' says architect Fernando Menis
A surprisingly natural form inspired this hospital
Two Australian practices ditched the tower-and-podium model to create this great new Brisbane paediatrics facility
Zaha Hadid makes a splash on Copacabana Beach
Architect's Casa Atlântica sees her squeezing spine like apartment building into Burle Marx Promenade
Sou Fujimoto strikes the right note again
The Japanese architect has won an anonymous competition to design the House of Hungarian Music in Budapest
Is this the smartest railway ticket office ever?
Designed to look like a jewel, the greenest building in Sweden breaks ground in the new year
Gary Nader's Latin American Art Museum unveiled
FR-EE's irregularly stacked floor plates will each accommodate around 25 of the collector's sculptures
Photographer commissions 'Dracula castle' in Seoul
Does Seoul's SangSang Museum capture the spirit of the famous vampire, as Moon Hoon architects intended?
The 2015 Serpentine Pavilion architects in 3 works
Want to know about SelgasCano, who'll be doing next year's Serpentine Pavilion? Let the Phaidon Atlas guide you
Would you live in this Japanese underwater city?
The Shimizu Corporation believes its Ocean Spiral proposal could overcome key urban challenges
Andean volcano gets high tech viewing platform
Smart architectural intervention gives viewers the sensation of flight
Have you seen Cornell's bright new Gates Hall?
Take a look at this - another beautiful academic building from Morphosis, the firm behind 41 Cooper Square
Desert Modern Style celebrated in Palm Springs
New Architecture and Design Center housed in Marmol Radziner-restored E. Stewart Williams building
An Athens Modernist icon is reborn
Having languished for years, Greece's Doxiadis Building gets a sympathetic makeover and a new name
The coolest architectural drawings are in The Atlas
Online architectural resource focuses on architectural drawings changing the nature of building today
Tadao Ando's thatched art retreat
The Pritzker laureate pairs Mexican vernacular building techniques with his signature concrete castings
Ice cube refuge proposed for Slovak mountains
Atelier 8000 joins the likes of Hadid, Zumthor and Fantastic Norway in proposing eye-popping mountain retreat
Herzog & de Meuron design Israel’s national library
Sweeping curve of stone above four subterranean floors will nestle alongside the 1960s Knesset building
5 young UK architects adapting to their environment
A Phaidon Atlas Focus on a group of projects that use local features to develop a subtle, contemporary language
World's tallest twin towers will go up in Dubai
But the architect for the The Dubai Creek Harbour at The Lagoons remains a mystery. Could it be SOM?
MAD unveil their George 'Star Wars' Lucas museum
Mies van der Rohe-inspired Chicago building peaks in a ‘floating’ disc with a 360-degree observation deck
Milk bar is transformed for Warsaw’s bourgeoisie
Sojka & Wojciechowski rework an Eastern European Socialist staple for a 21st-century audience
Tropical Modernism is back in Puerto Rico
Fuster + Architects' new hotel in Puerto Rico leans on the work of Henry Klumb in the region
Three new museums for major South China city
Guangzhou urban planners attempt to multiply the Bilbao effect by three with new cultural proposal
Foster and Hadid build Dubai-style hotels in China
The Jumeirah Group plans suite of resorts designed by Pritzker laureates
Is it just us or does this skate park look like an igloo?
Cebra design a venue for ‘unorganised’ sports in the Jutland town of Haderslev, Denmark
Jean Nouvel and Patrick Blanc's sky high garden
Architect and eccentric vertical gardener team up for One Central Park in Sydney
Nicolas Grospierre's axonometric Manhattan
How the photographer created this amazing photograph of a modernist housing estate in Łódź, Poland
OMA reinvents the bridge (again)
Rem Koolhaas's practice manages to close the gap between two distinct Washington DC communities
Gombrich Explains Sir Christopher Wren
Britain’s greatest architect, the Story of Art author writes, was able to pair baroque styles with English restraint
What do you think this wild new hotel looks like?
The Kempinski group says its luxurious new hotel on Lake Yanqi is shaped like a fish, a scallop and the sun
Zaha Hadid’s worthy wooden memorial
Architect hopes her Sleuk Rith Institute for victims of the Khmer Rouge will help Cambodians reassess their past
Hélène Binet on the importance of slowing time down
The Shooting Space photographer tells us about spotting unseen details in the darkroom
5 buildings you must not miss at Open House NY
We pick our highlights from the city's annual public-access architecture event this coming weekend
Snøhetta unveils 'floating' library design in Canada
Calgary design will feature arches inspired by cloud formations and will house over half-a-million books
Will Tokyo's Capsule Tower dodge the wrecking ball?
These tiny apartments were built to be replaced so why are their residents fighting to save them?
Saving Beijing’s hutongs with UV lamps and string
reMIX Studio shows the residents of the city's oldest neighborhoods a new way of life
Manila’s banana-shaped business hub
Filipino practice U26 Architecture Studio offers local food producers a delightful literal design for their new offices
How to create a tiny museum with a big impact
Seoul's Museum of War and Women's Human Rights tells a terrible tale from the confines of a suburban house
Ten questions for writer and curator Elias Redstone
The Shooting Space author and Constructing Worlds co-curator on new ways of looking at modernist icons, architecture as the backdrop to our lived experience and why he's still enthused and excited by the city
Is the new Budapest metro better than your metro?
Spora Architects reimagines two stations in the Hungarian capital with stunning results
Schrager, Pawson and Herzog & de Meuron in NYC
Real-estate developer calls upon Phaidon author and architect and Pritzker laureates for downtown development
Gehry brings his Bilbao effect to Panama
The Pritzker laureate employs local, colourful tin roofing in quest to put Panama on the global museum map
Toyo Ito creates opera house from sprayable concrete
The Pritzker laureate's labyrinthine new structure in Taiwan is designed to act as a sound cave
Latin America’s tallest tower set for Buenos Aires
Parabolic curve is “a geometric abstraction that represents Argentina” says the government
Introducing the new wave of cool Chilean architects
Latest Atlas Focus looks at practitioners working in one of the world’s most inspiring natural environments
Miami’s new observation tower could come with rides
The developers of Florida’s answer to the Eiffel Tower promise fairground-style amusements as well as views
How sustainable is Foster + Partners' new airport?
It might sound like an oxymoron, but that's what the Pritzker-laureate’s firm is proposing for Mexico City
Could you live in this cliff house?
An Australian housing firm says its concept house could enable home building on tricky parcels of coastal land
OMA's three in one theatre nears completion
Theatre-goers and thesps alike will be shaken up in Taiwan next year
Renzo Piano on how to design a museum
As it nears completion, Piano explains why his new home for the Whitney will 'hit NYC like a meteorite'
Supertall skyscraper is adapted for London cityscape
SURE Architecture think this massive block could be adapted to suit the ancient streets of the British capital
The Tehran house that turns with the seasons
In response to the Iranian capital’s extreme climate, a local architect has created a house with rotating rooms
Mexican architects squeeze a city into a skyscraper
Studio Cachoua Torres Camilletti think their speculative proposal might suit a Hong Kong of the near future
Beirut’s startling underground museum plans
The Lebanese architect Galal Mahmoud wants to turn Martyrs’ Square into a permanent archaeological dig
Six radically converted historical buildings
The Phaidon Atlas’s latest feature proves contemporary architecture can incorporate both old and new buildings
Frank Lloyd Wright to put LA on the UNESCO map
The architect’s first house in Los Angeles is shortlisted for World Heritage status and due to reopen later this year
Copenhagen’s orange bike highway
A new £3.5m elevated cycle path relieves two-wheeled congestion enlivens the Danish capital’s waterfront
Herzog & de Meuron build a stadium in a favela
The Pritzker-laureates cut out the air con and waive their fee to create the neighbourhood facility, Arena do Morro
A French concrete firm turns into an urban sculpture
That's the claim of VIB Architecture make for their new Ciments Calcia facility they've constructed in Paris
See Lebbeus Woods’ futuristic sketches in Berlin
Early drawings by the radical architect and artist are on show at a new Berlin museum dedicated to draftsmanship
Shigeru Ban imagines Aspen Art Museum as a basket
New ski resort museum also references those early cardboard designs you'll find in his Phaidon monograph
Álvaro Siza makes his first splash in China
81-year-old's horseshoe structure perched on an island in Jiangsu Province is also his first on water
Turkish architect reinvents the mosque
Main prayer hall is replaced by two identical sacred spaces side by side in new design
BIG creates a Zootopia for the animal kingdom
Not content with making life better for us humans, Bjarke Ingels and co turn their attention to the animal world
Robert McCarter celebrates Alvar Aalto
Here's what happened at our Aalto book launch in Minneapolis last night
Atkins reinvents office windows in China
Architects say 001 symbolises Guangzhou as first Chinese city open for international trading many dynasties ago
A bus terminal worth waiting for
Turkey's youngest architecture practice Bahadir Kul Architects bring a sense of style to the bus terminal in Kayseri
The best new city houses are in the Phaidon Atlas
From irregular concrete gridded blocks in Lisbon to leaf-covered façades in Ho Chi Minh City they're all here
Inflatable concrete housing - who knew?
The Binishell is a cheap, quick and, its proponents say, environmentally friendly building solution
What a Shigeru Ban airport looks like on day one
Fascinating sketches reveal thinking behind architect's new tea plantation-inspired Mount Fuji airport design
What you get when you mash up Mies with Le Corb
Farnsavoye, a hybrid of two 20th-century masterpieces, where plagiarism is a key design feature
Take a look inside a real gardener's garden
We launch our new book The Gardener's Garden at Munstead Wood, the quintessential English garden
The future of North Korean tourism: flying hotels?
Utopian visions, one of the most intriguing Venice Biennale presentations, inspires a real architecture tour
Frank Gehry’s models on the move in France
The Pritzker laureate’s maquettes feature in a new Arles show, alongside works by David Lynch and Tino Sehgal
UK architects make the Hollywood sign disappear
What has London practice Ordinary Architecture done to this landmark, as part of LA's On The Road project?
Bold new Belgian architecture in the Atlas
Our online resource takes a look at some of the finest new buildings from the land of Magritte and moules-frites
The story behind Mies van der Rohe's name changes
With his numerous name changes he joined a roll call of avant-garde artists intent on reinventing themselves
The most experimental buildings in the Phaidon Atlas
The latest Phaidon Atlas focus is on buildings that push the limits of inspiration, technology and technique
Moshe Safdie's tropical airport complex
Can Moshe Safdie and Associates Project Jewel turn Singapore’s Changi Airport into a genuine tourist attraction?
Carlo Scarpa’s surprisingly traditional legacy
The architect’s work might still look modern, yet as a new Venetian show makes clear, Scarpa built on traditions
Could this propeller-shaped airport get airborne?
Bangkok practice offers land-locked Niger a sleek transport hub based on an antique aeronautical design
How Louis Kahn's drawings changed his architecture
New show and Phaidon monograph show how drawings from Egypt influenced use of form, light and shape
Have you seen BIG’s new Washington maze?
'I had anxiety attacks that it was going to be too easy,' says Bjarke Ingels, 'but it’s actually pretty confusing'
Tadao Ando's new gallery puts the landscape on show
The Pritzker laureate says his new Clark Visitor Center allows art and nature to be enjoyed simultaneously
Five buildings that will help you work smarter
Our new Phaidon Atlas focus looks at how architects are helping us break away from the desk and cubicle model
Kengo Kuma rolls out the barrel in Tokyo
Kayanoya in Tokyo is latest - perhaps greatest - example of architect's current wood first approach
John Pawson on retuning the Design Museum
We talk to the acclaimed architect and Phaidon author about his work on the Commonwealth Institute building
KREOD's Olympian ascent
Rio Pavilion is the latest project from the fast-growing design and architecture practice
Ross Lovegrove on design, nature and computers
We catch up on the great British designer's plans for the future at the launch of the online Phaidon Atlas
Young Americans of the Atlas
This week's Editor's Focus in the Phaidon online Atlas takes a look at new architectural talent in the United States
Less is More at Valentino's Chipperfield NYC store
The British architect is brought in by the Italian label to reduce 'superficial decoration' in its key flagship stores
Why Chilean architecture is having a moment
As the Serpentine Pavilion opens, we talk to Chile's cultural attaché and the minister for architecture and design
Sou Fujimoto tells us about the bus stop he built
What happened when the Serpentine Pavilion architect went to the tiny Austrian village of Krumbach?
Odile Decq on her new architecture school
Celebrated Parisian architect and educator aims to engage students in the 'laboratory of everywhere'
Le Corbusier cousin’s house reimagined in Basel
Art duo Kolkoz rework Pierre Jeanneret’s prefab house in a celebration of the architect and designer’s work
David Adjaye does neo-brutalism in New York
Affordable housing references Sugar Hill area's rows of terraced housing by placing one 'row' on top of another
Focus on these futuristic façades
The Phaidon Atlas takes a look at some beautifully rhythmic digitally fabricated skins
Tadao Ando’s first New York City project
The Pritzker laureate hopes his modest seven-storey block will “embrace the industrial character of the area”
MAD Architects talk about latest project
Nanjing urban complex references mountains, water and winding pathways found in Chinese shan-shui paintings
Barry Bergdoll 'New York is starting to feel nostalgic'
MoMA architecture curator says "London is a much more dynamic place these days than New York"
Floating city proposal for China's super rich
Electric cars speed along underwater tunnels, there's on-island food production and bespoke power generation
The Israeli Pavilion draws lines in the sand
At this year's Venice Biennale Israel presents a brilliantly engaging meditation on its national urban sprawl
Ten buildings changing the way we travel
The Phaidon Atlas picks out airports, ferry terminals and cable-car stations putting the bon into bon voyage
French Pavilion pairs Jacques Tati with Jean Prouvé
The French submission for the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale interrogates and gently lampoons modernism
Look what Renzo Piano has squeezed into Paris
Piano's building for film company Pathé snakes in between the façades of the XIII arrondissement
So, is there such a thing as national architecture?
OMA's Stephan Petermann, Diébédo Francis Kéré and MAD's Ma Yansong join us for a great debate in Venice
Meet the speakers at today’s Phaidon talk
Great minds from Canada, the Netherlands, China and Burkina Faso discuss the state of national architecture
Why is Cliff Richard in the British Pavilion?
Sam Jacob and Wouter Vanstiphout’s show at the Venice Architecture Biennale takes a pop view of town planning
The Dominican Republic’s concrete legacy at Venice
The national submission remembers its 1956 fair, and how its citizens now live their lives in among the architecture
America brings an architect's office to Venice
The American Pavilion’s 'Office US' looks at how Meier, Saarinen and Wright built abroad
When Ettore Sottsass met Barbara Radice
To mark tonight’s Design Museum talk, we look at how Sottsass’s second wife enabled him to reach new heights
What links Mies van der Rohe to Ferris Bueller?
How director and Chicago native John Hughes sought out a Mies protegé's building for his 1986 film
The Insider's Guide to Venice
Event organiser Tommaso Speretta reveals his favourite places as featured in our Wallpaper* City Guide
Ten buildings built to be moved
From a lake school to Renzo Piano's eco hut, The Phaidon Atlas picks out some great portable buildings
How to shoot Tadao Ando's most beautiful houses
Photographer Edmund Sumner talks to us about his friendship with the architect and the Ando houses he’s shot
Architectural Record's Innovation Conference
We just took our online Atlas along to one of North America’s most forward-thinking architectural events
The biologist loved by Mies and Richard Hamilton
Why did the pop artist and modernist architect both draw inspiration from a controversial 1917 biological text?
Mies tower wins architectectural prize after 42 years
Commissioned by IBM, the 52-storey Chicago tower had one of the first computerized air-conditioning systems
Hard to build? A little less so, thanks to The Atlas
From French viaducts to Swiss mist, this week our online Atlas reveals the know-how behind some tricky structures
NYC's 9/11 Memorial Pavilion is complete
Snøhetta says it has struck a balance between the everyday life of the city and a fitting quality for a memorial
Come to Phaidon's Venice Architecture Biennale talk
Architects from OMA and MAD will debate global architecture with Online Atlas editor Jean-Francois Goyette
Is this Larry Gagosian’s new Foster apartment?
The world’s biggest art dealer has reportedly bought a new pad, ready in time for Art Basel Miami Beach
One architect's Swiss village revival in retrospect
You may not have heard of Gion A Caminada but since the '70s he's slowly been transforming an alpine village
Grimshaw designs world’s biggest airport terminal
The British practice, working with two other firms, will build the one-million-square-metre Istanbul Grand Airport
And you thought Shigeru Ban just did cardboard?
New images of the Pritzker Prize winning architect's Tribeca redevelopment show Manhattan life at its most chic
Drive in church is inspired by motorway signage
Siegerland Motorway Church by Schneider & Schumacher is based on a simple pictogram image
Lebbeus Woods’ high-concept architecture in NYC
The late, great American architect, best known for his work on paper, gets a retrospective at the Drawing Center
Mies van der Rohe by Jeff Wall and Edmund de Waal
Architect's influence and buildings prove haven and horror for two artists with a very different take on less is more
The Barcelona Pavilion minus its doors
Photographer Jordi Bernadó reinterprets Mies van der Rohe's iconic building
David Chipperfield's home for the Nobel Prize
The architect’s Berlin office wins the chance to design a Stockholm HQ for the prize-giving body
Concrete culture from Louis Kahn apprentice
If you loved our book Concrete take a look at this building from the master's last apprentice
The building they said couldn't be built
Using the smooth overlapping scales of a pine cone as their inspiration Oikios triumph in Switzerland
Two designs cater for New York’s increasing numbers
With a million more residents expected in the city by 2040, two firms propose some out of the box thinking
Karim Rashid's splash of colour in Miami
Mybrickell features designer's Pop Art-inspired magic from top to bottom
Does this new Zaha Hadid hotel look like a swimsuit?
The Pritzker laureate's latest tower appears to share some aesthetic qualities with her new swimwear range
What did Mies van der Rohe mean by less is more?
The aphorism is one of the most used (and abused) in design and architecture. Detlef Mertins, author of an exceptional monograph on the master architect, reveals how it came about and what it meant to him
Shigeru Ban wins the Pritzker Prize
Judges laud the architect's ability to "respond to extreme situations caused by devastating natural disasters"
Snøhetta unveils two very different designs
New projects in Mecca and on a mountainous archipelago show diversity of architecture practice
How is John Pawson's Design Museum coming along?
Architect and author has opened up the roof but compares the basement excavations to 'marine archeology'
New Jersey's loftiest building takes to the skies
70-storey Journal Squared provides an architectural counterpoint to late era brutalism of PATH station next door
Hotel Hotel is a who's who in down under design
Fender Katsalidis and Suppose Design Office's Canberra hotel ticks the box for every happening design firm
Shigeru Ban to design Mount Fuji visitors’ centre
World Heritage site centre resembles upside-down latticed cone - an architectural inversion of the mountain itself
How Mies invented modern architecture
Early Friedrichstrasse and glass Skyscraper projects were way ahead of their time - even for Mies van der Rohe
Why Mies van der Rohe divided opinion
Genie behind the curtain wall or architect of cold technology? Let Detlef Mertins guide you to the answer
Perrault unveils Austria’s tallest building
Dominique Perrault, architect of the French National Library, unveils the first of two towers in Vienna
The Atlas takes a big look at some small buildings
New Editors' Focus feature lays bare the most diminutive buildings on the site
Smiljan Radic creates 2014 Serpentine Pavilion
White, translucent and made of fibreglass The 48-year-old Chilean's plans for the summer pavilion are unveiled
First building in new district is a concrete church
Nameless Architecture eschews the usual shopping centre or office block for something more spiritual in Korea
Sou Fujimoto's tree-inspired apartment building
The Japanese architect's Arbre Blanc brings outdoor high rise living to a rejuvenated Montpelier
Morphosis brings a touch of New York to Los Angeles
Emerson College evokes concentrated energy of East-coast metropolitan centers in an iconic LA setting
Obrist and Herzog & de Meuron disrupt the Biennale
The Swiss curator and architectural duo present a 'mental universe' dedicated to two influential dreamers
Kengo Kuma's cake shop opens in Tokyo
Known for using unexpected materials on his facades, the architect looks to tradition for Sunny Hills cake shop
Homes of the starchitects recreated in Milan
Zaha Hadid joins Daniel Libeskind and Shigeru Ban in allowing their homes go on show at the design fair
Turkey's highly entertaining TV tower
Çanakkale Antenna Tower combines broadcast functionality with day trip opportunities
Slovenians land futuristic stadium design in Belarus
Aluminium clad 'spotty stadium' by OFIS Arhitekti majors on acoustics - let's hope the supporters' voices are up to it
Beatrice Galilee lands curator role at the Met
Lisbon Triennale and occasional Phaidon contributor takes up new position as curator of architecture and design
Thomas Heatherwick's African art museum
V&A Waterfront unveils architectural plans by Heatherwick Studio for historic Cape Town Grain Silo Complex
Reworking Mies van der Rohe's only public library
Mecanoo and Martinez + Johnson will modernise Washington DC's Martin Luther King Memorial Library
BIG and Kuma shortlisted for Netherlands arts hub
The ArtA art and cinema centre in Arnhem has narrowed its architectural submissions to a final four candidates
The Mexican design museum's concrete jungle home
Zeller & Moye's new home for Mexico City's Archivo Diseño y Arquitectura has terraces jutting out into the trees
Architects plan a car park with a courtyard on top
UK practice Brisac Gonzalez have designed a multi-storey car park for Bordeaux with apartments on the roof
Zaha and co. rethink the drinking fountain
A group of London architects have come up with their versions of the water fountains for the capital
Daniel Libeskind's Spanish spiral
The manufacturing firm, the Cosentino Group, commission an ornamental spiral from the New York architect
A Scottish homage to Le Corbusier
French artist and illustrator Benoit Challand combines two European heavyweights when drafting his perfect home
Will Juice succeed where Zaha Hadid faltered?
Swansea’s shell-like Tidal Lagoon Centre set to be as controversial as Cardiff Bay Opera House?
Foster's controversial Apple store gets go ahead
Some moved walls and the reinstatement of a much loved piece of public art sees project approved
New show sheds light on Alvar Aalto
Over 100 light fittings designed by the Finnish architect go on show in Belgium beside a pontoon bridge
Ghost Paris Metro stations to become galleries?
Mayoral candidate Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet wants to repurpose the city's unused stations if she wins
Pawson church among Design Museum nominations
Beautiful retuning of light and space sees St Moritz Church in Augsburg lead Designs of the Year nominations
Zaha Hadid on the perils of paper architecture
The world's leading woman architect on the setbacks of her early career and today's opportunities
Coop Himmelb(l)au's House of Music takes shape
Circular windows cut out of elevated block and framed by amoebic shapes characterise Wolf D. Prix's design
MoMA PS1 will grow its own summer pavilion
The winning submission to 2014's Young Architects Program incorporates fungi bricks and is 100% compostable
OMA reworks Rotterdam Kunsthal
New improvements, including some to security, to 22-year-old iconic building follow recent break in
Rockwell blurs boundaries between office and club
Former NY industrial building repurposed to promote collaboration and creativity among upscale entrepreneurs
BIG sweetens the Bahamas with honeycomb homes
Bjarke Ingels' design features plunge pools on every balcony of this residence on New Providence Island
Why Lord Foster wants us to travel more
And it’s so we can learn from the Pritzker laureate's buildings, airports and plane interiors
Shigeru Ban perches penthouses above Tribeca
Japanese architect creates a pair of glazed duplex penthouses open to the elements on historic NY building
A Japanese view of Frank Lloyd Wright
Images by the late critic and photographer Yukio Futagawa go on show in Tokyo next month
Santiago Calatrava's interconnecting bridge for Doha
As the population rises to one million the architect is commissioned to create innovative three-in-one crossing
Le Corbusier's Notre Dame du Haut vandalised
Priceless stained glass window, smashed in the hilltop chapel, is irreparable say authorities
Renzo Piano to extend Monaco?
The Pritzker-Prize laureate has been shortlisted to build an additional six hectares out into the sea
Snøhetta’s landscaping of Times Square is a hit
Norwegian architecture practice of the moment landscapes iconic New York area to great acclaim
The Circle Skyscraper is complete
China's latest 'round building' tops out in Guanghzou courtesy of Milanese architects AM Project
How to get ahead in architecture by Eva Jiřičná
Czech architect says site visits aid learning and lead to international projects in Architects' Journal interview
The one billion euro railway station
After a hundred years at the planning stage a new railway tunnel reunifies the residents of Leipzig in Germany
Could Lord Foster's SkyCycle scheme take off?
The Pritzker laureate wants to build 220 kilometres of cycle routes above London's train lines
A 'coral' clad home for 74 lucky students
Atelier Fernandez & Serres creates interesting scenery at an oceanic observatory in the Pyrénées
Amazon's new HQ boasts some lush vegetation
The mail-order giant's new Seattle office development will feature botanical-garden style biospheres
When Justus Dahinden went to Uganda
How the Swiss architect's coconut shapes were influenced by Japanese group the Metabolists and organic growth
Carlo Scarpa's cemetery for Brionvega boss
How the Italian architect honoured a design genius and "man of the people who had started from the bottom”
2013 the year in architecture
The past twelve months saw mind-bending Chinese innovation and reverent European conservation
Cork-clad hotel in Portugal is a first
With screw tops decimating their livelihoods cork farmers could have a reason to rejoice
Hadid, Collishaw and Paltrow's Christmas baubles
Artists, designers and celebrities make one-off Christmas tree decorations to benefit a British children's charity
Gehry's Fondation Louis Vuitton to open next year
The 'floating ship' arts institution will promote established artists and "young artists from emerging scenes"
Architecture before and after the third Reich
As 20th Century World Architecture shows, world affairs often lurk in the background of any architectural project
Can you name these film-star buildings?
Federico Babina has redrawn famous movie posters, placing the films' houses centre stage
How Carlo Scarpa bridged past and present
The renovation of the Fondazione Querini Stampalia is a great example of how he integrated the new with the old
John Pawson designs Alain de Botton holiday home
Life House in Wales is the latest addition in the Art as Therapy philosopher's Living Architecture initiative
Porsche designs drive-in apartments in Miami
Automotive marque's first real estate venture targets design conscious car lovers
Daniel Libeskind's air-purifying apartment block
The architect's new Berlin building will help boost local air quality thanks to its innovative cladding
Foster reworks a Florida Art Deco institution
Architect restores symmetrical scheme to Sims Wyeth's Norton Museum and creates 'museum in a garden'
Why is Damien Hirst trying to build a village?
The artist has plans to turn his South Devon farmland into a 750-home residential development
When Frank Lloyd Wright met Carlo Scarpa
Official titles meant nothing to the great American architect when he wanted a guide to Venice
Grimshaw and Samoo create eco experience in Korea
Visitors will be able to wander from tropical rainforest, through cloud forest and into the Antarctic
Renzo Piano on building beside Louis Kahn
The Italian architect says his extension to Kahn's Kimbell Art Museum is "close enough for a conversation"
Herzog & de Meuron's artistic Indian debut
Do these designs for the Kolkata Museum of Modern Art remind you a little of Denys Lasdun's Southbank Centre?
Crowd-funding brings the skyscraper back to Bogotá
66-storey BD Bagata tower by Alonso-Balaguer y Arquitectos Asociados will be tallest building in Colombia
Studio Fuksas reworks Shenzhen Bao'an Airport
Italian architects take inspiration from manta ray for stunning new Terminal 3 building
Green, extreme-sports park drafted for Las Vegas
The Vegas Extreme resort aims to grow its own food and generate 85% of its energy from renewable sources
Kanye thinks everything needs to be ‘architected’
The rap star tells Harvard Graduate School of Design students that Peter Saville "wants me to do a YSL”
The ties that bound Carlo Scarpa and Paul Klee
Robert McCarter's new book on the mid-century modernist architect points out some fascinating similarities
David Chipperfield stirs up London’s Canada Water
"Lifeless, out-of-town, retail-park look" to be reinvigorated with The Shard developers
Malmo's melted shopping mall
Emporia by Sweden's Wingårdh Arkitektkontor lures in shoppers with its magma-like entrance
BIG magics a ski slope from a working power plant
Architect Bjarke Ingels calls new plant an example of BIG's desire for 'Hedonistic Sustainability'
A flat-pack solution to disaster relief
Pieter Stoutjesdijk's ECOnnect venture hopes to plug housing crisis with interlocking chipboard
Next Architects' Mobius-like Chinese bridge
The Dutch practice says its pedestrian bridge design draws upon decorative Chinese folk art
Could you live in a moving city?
Manuel Dominguez at Madrid’s Superior Technical School of Architecture has a plan for job-starved areas
Paul Cocksedge’s Living Staircase
The British designer plants around a staircase in Soho to fashion a creative spiral
Will this vertical garden take root in Berlin?
Agnieszka Preibisz and Peter Sandhaus believe their Green8 scheme could transform the city's Alexanderplatz
Sou Fujimoto’s secret Saudi tower
The Japanese architect’s master plan in Jeddah is both ‘confidential’ and practically transparent
Herzog and de Meuron strips back Park Ave. Armory
Why the Pritzker Prize laureate has taken away all the more recent additions from this New York Institution
Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer, now in Lego
Lego's architecture range now includes the pair's great collaboration, New York's United Nations Building
Wallis, Gilbert's concrete makes a comeback
One of the British practice's earliest creations is reborn as a modern, concrete-loving, mixed use hub
Tubular hotel opens in the Russian Caucasus
LEAPrus 3912 by Italian architects LEAPfactory is built on the side of a dormant volcano
New York approves bean-pole slim addition by SHoP
410 metres tall but only 13 metres wide - New York's new addition will offer sweeping views over Central Park
Why Steve Jobs tried to join Norman Foster’s team
In a new planning application video, the British architect describes the late Apple CEO's commissioning style
Mexican architect rethinks the Egyptian pyramids
Juan Carlos Ramos adds windows, a garage, bedrooms and balconies to an ancient architectural form
Shigeru Ban's paper-tube tree house
The Japanese architect brings his "evolved wood" architecture to a suitably arboreal setting
Mumbai artists get a new concrete base
Sanjay Puri Architects create fittingly sculptural bulbous structure in concrete for Bombay Art Society
Carlo Scarpa by Louis Kahn
The last thing Louis Kahn wrote before his death was a poem to his friend Carlo Scarpa - this is what he wrote
OMA splinter group's mega-estate in Singapore
Does this blocky design remind you of Northern European social-housing estates? Or Jenga blocks?
The Bauhaus: now offering sleepovers
Bunk down where the design school's greats once slept. Prices include communal showers and shared restrooms
Shanghai developers plan to rebuild Crystal Palace
ZhongRong Group say the Victorian building's "ingenuity and scale is magnificent" and want to bring it back to life
The Chinese conference centre that thinks it's a city
Coop Himmelb(l)au say the rooms in their new Dalian Conference Centre have 'identifiable addresses'
How much would you pay for a Hadid dolls' house?
Bidding is up to £9,000 for Hadid's model, as big-name architects build tiny houses to benefit a children's charity
Architects protest Zaha Hadid's Olympic stadium
Fou Sujimoto, Toyo Ito and Kengo Kuma say the design will dwarf its surroundings
Designer joins forces with algorithm for new bridge
Arturo Tedeschi’s latest parametric design Cloudbridge spans two mountainsides
All aboard the floating Dutch apartment block
Waterstudio's Citadel block consists of 60 stylish homes floating in six feet of water near Rotterdam
Tree house turned inside out by Kazakh designer
Aibek Almasov created this arboreal retreat for a businessman who prizes nature over privacy
Korea’s National Library gets an outpost by Samoo
When is a library not a library? Apparently when it's an E-brary’, a compound of ‘emotion’ and ‘library’
New student accommodation ticks the box
Tengbom's new student apartments will house 22 college kids (not all in the same building) from next year
Jonathon Porritt on The World We Made
The legendary environmental campaigner on how to scrub clean the earth's atmosphere, why robots might soon be man's best friend and the big steps China is taking to dispel its polluter of the planet reputation
Russia's 2018 FIFA World Cup airport to be built by new London-based firm Twelve Architects
New outfit breaks through on the international stage with a high-profile competition win
Foster's huge new entertainment venue opens
Glasgow's SSE Hydro hopes to attract one million visitors annually with big-name concerts and sporting events
Norman Foster reworks Scotland Yard
Foster + Partners is shortlisted to oversee creation of Metropolitan Police Service’s new headquarters
John Pawson visits Zumthor's Bruder Klaus chapel
The great British minimalist admires the shape-shifting quality of Zumthor's 'landlocked lighthouse'
Beijing's answer to Glastonbury and Coachella
MAD fashions a purpose built venue for Beijing's oldest music and arts festival
Carlo Scarpa's pioneering glassware at The Met
Italian architect's innovative glassware demonstrates how central local craftsmanship was to his work
First look at Brazil's Olympic stadium
London architects Weston Williamson liken their “massive feather-like structure" to a bird taking flight
Introducing The World We Made
Phaidon editor Ellen Christie previews our Jonathon Porritt title offering a bright, optimistic vision of sustainability
Name the 8 bit architect
Name these 10 architects to win a download of the magnificent Phaidon Architecture Travel Guide App
Amanda Levete puts on a show in Lisbon
UK architect adds a glimmer of light in the land of Pritzker Prize winners Alvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto de Moura
The best place in the world to buy Phaidon books?
Zwolle's 15th century Dominican Broerenkerk, or Church of the Brothers, is reborn as a great new book store
Alanis Morissette to star in Eileen Gray film
Forthcoming film portrays Le Corbusier as a malevolent rival to Gray
Mies van der Rohe plans found in MoMA archive
MoMA archive find leads Belgian architect Paul Robbrecht to build 'new' Mies masterpiece in Germany
Phaidon Atlas talks at designjunction
If you're interested in architecture and you're in London check out our two talks at designjunction this Thursday
VW unveils Pringle shaped carport
VW's new Ausfahrt centre allows you to test out your new car (without driving it into someone else's)
In conversation with Speck Lee Tailfeather
The Architecture According to Pigeons star on the Chrysler building, bird control spikes and human/avian relations
Introducing Architecture According to Pigeons
Hélène Gallois Montbrun, senior editor of children's books, talks though the cultured kid's guide to architecture
A chat with Lisbon Triennale curator Beatrice Galilee
A sneak preview of tonight's talks at the MUDE Auditorium with the Lisbon Triennale curator and others
Snøhetta's first UK building opens this month
Norwegian starchitects make UK debut with a Maggie's Centre in Aberdeen
World of ice suspended above a Chinese quarry
Coop Himmelb(l)au's latest venture in China sees Wolf D Prix suspending Snow World between cliffs
Toyo Ito on how to fix Japan
The Japanese Pritzker Prize laureate looks beyond buildings to examine underlying social structures
SOM’s Dubai bank boasts overhanging boardroom
Skidmore Owings and Merrill puts the boardroom on show in its “quiet sculptural form within Dubai’s skyline”
UNStudio creates big wheel with own social network
Nippon Moon, Dutch architecture practice's giant observation wheel in Japan, also features double decks
See Lisbon's incredible slot-together pavilion
Kairos Triennale pavilion eschews screws or glues and is formed instead by some rather clever concrete panels
LA’s car museum shifts up a gear with redesign
Kohn Pedersen Fox works its magic over the facade of iconic 1960s Welton Becket building
OMA to build Colombia's Brasilia
Koolhaas' practice will build largest institutional masterplan in Latin America since Niemeyer’s Brasilia
New York duo designs African Summit Centre
Inner facade of husband and wife team WORKac's new building is clad in pale gold aluminium
New York's creative scene gets a $300 million 'shed'
Diller Scofidio + Renfro teams up with stage set designers extraordinaire Rockwell Group for Hudson Yards project
Singapore just got leafier
Architect WOHA creates sky gardens high above the metropolis in Park Royal Hotel
Mies van der Rohe collages go on show in New York
Previously unseen mood boards in Cut 'n' Paste shine a light into inspirations behind seminal works
Le Corbusier’s Chandigarh gets an organic addition
New business school by young Mumbai practice Planet 3 Studios takes shape on outskirts of Indian city
Damien Hirst's new 9,000 square-metre art studio
The artist's West Country studio, gallery and formaldehyde out-building is the world's largest art production site
A. Quincy Jones' LA retrospective
The pioneering California architect receives his first major retrospective courtesy of LA's Hammer Museum
LEGO invites you to ‘release your inner architect’
Sou Fujimoto, MAD and SOM among big names contributing to 272-page book in new Architecture Studio set
Australian train station attracts fierce competition
Competition to redesign Melbourne's iconic Flinders Street Station attracts entries from Herzog & de Meuron, Zaha Hadid, Grimshaw, two local architects and some Colombian graduates. But who will win?
Galaxy Soho accused of damaging 'old Beijing'
Beijing Cultural Heritage Protection Center chastises RIBA for rewarding Zaha Hadid's 2012 creation
The Shanghai skyscraper that makes you look twice
UNStudio says its SOHO Hailun Plaza will change appearance depending on the time of day and your viewpoint
Jakob+MacFarlane's illuminating extension
The Parisian practice creates a suitably impressive addition to France's repository for radical architecture
Toyo Ito and Shigeru Ban's designs for dogs
New show unveils “an extremely sincere collection of architecture” for design-conscious domestic animals
John Pawson strips back the Baroque
The St Moritz church in Augsburg, Bavaria goes minimalist, thanks to the work of Britain's architectural master
Zaha Hadid's Serpentine gallery to open next month
The Serpentine Sackler Gallery will be the Pritzker Laureate's first permanent structure in central London
Jean Nouvel wins the National Art Museum of China
The French Pritzker laureate beat Frank Gehry and Zaha Hadid to design China's leading art contemporary space
Shigeru Ban's Parisian music island
Following on from Ando and Nouvel plans, will Ban's design for Ile Seguin in Paris finally break ground?
Put the world's best architecture in your pocket
New Architecture Travel Guide brings world's greatest new buildings to your touchscreen
Zaha Hadid designs mountaineering museum
Three dimensional parallelogram resembling a shard of glacial ice is 'inserted' into South Tyrol mountain
Foster backs new Thames Hub airport
Pritzker-Prize winning architect calls on the spirit of Victorian forebears "to create afresh"
Grimshaw's museum for an art city of the future
The British practice has worked mosaics into its Koç Contemporary Art Museum in Istanbul, Turkey
The Chinese hotel with a built-in waterfall
“We drew our inspiration from the quarry setting" says Atkins Design Studio
Designing the Carlo Scarpa monograph
Designer Béla Stetzer talks us through his work on our forthcoming book on the mid-century modernist architect
Is this what's in store for London's High Line?
The winner of Vauxhall's Missing Link competition draws inspiration from a cabinet of curiosities for its linear park
Aspen Art Museum to open with a Shigeru Ban show
Japanese architect's first museum in the US will open with a show dedicated to his humanitarian architecture
MAD creates art museum in caves of a Chinese island
Beijing studio designs artificial island with Asia’s biggest private art museum ensconced in its caves
MVRDV reinvents city living in Switzerland
Dutch architects rip up design brief and come up with something entirely different
Three new library designs put books front of mind
As their role within society changes, big name architects are queueing up to create new libraries
New UN HQ is inaugurated in Copenhagen
Architect 3XN follows up its jaw-dropping Blue Planet Aquarium in the city with new star shaped building
Zaha Hadid's new Baku building up for two awards
Heydar Aliyev Centre is short-listed for prizes at the World Architecture Festival and the Inside Festival
Pininfarina designs Singapore tower
Ferrari design team creates condo with garages that will light the cars within like gems
Introducing the Carlo Scarpa monograph
Phaidon editor Tom Wright talks about our forthcoming book on the mid-century modernist architect
Google's new Kings Cross HQ
The search firm's London headquarters will complement the local area's strong industrial heritage
Zaha Hadid buys The Design Museum
The prize-winning practice will use the space as an exhibition space and to house its archive
Architecture goes underground at Herzog & de Meuron’s M+ museum in Hong Kong
"For art to enter into the life of a city like Hong Kong it has to come from its own foundations," says Jacques Herzog
Ikea creates flat packs for refugees
Swedish furniture giant tackles longterm housing for the world's dispossessed
Frank Gehry goes back to the drawing board
Architect swathes controversial Toronto towers in curvaceous cladding and adds an 'echo' of what stood before
NY subway commuters see the light
Architect Nicholas Grimshaw teams up with artist James Carpenter to create glass oculus over transport hub
Shigeru Ban turns to wood for Swatch
The Japanese architect says timber is 'the only renewable material' and has used it extensively in this new building
Why did Frank Gehry hire a human rights lawyer?
And which of the United Arab Emirates does he like, and which does he say is "like every cruddy city in the world"?
New Manhattan skyscraper allows sun onto High Line
Studio Gang develops ‘solar carving’ technique that uses incident angles of the sun’s rays to sculpt building form
Koolhaas' son makes a documentary about dad
Film REM is an "exploration of what architecture means to those who inhabit it and create it"
Nicholas Grimshaw's masterplan for Wimbledon
Nicholas Grimshaw and Grant Associates juggle heritage and modernity with new look for UK's home of tennis
Henning Larsen, 1925-2013
The Danish architect, known for The Royal Danish Opera House and The Malmö City Library has died, aged 87
Take a look at India's new tree-lined apartments
Edouard François' Gurgaon 71 development sees high-rise horticulture planned for the outskirts of New Delhi
World cup football fans to be housed in floating hotels
Thousands of 'refreshed' fans celebrating their team's 2022 success in the sea - what could possibly go wrong?
Have you seen Renzo Piano's new house?
Architect's latest scheme named after ancient philosopher Diogenes who traded comfort for living in a barrel
OMA's Bordeaux bridge doubles as a stage
"The bridge is not the ‘event’ in the city," say OMA "but a platform that can accommodate all the events of the city.”
American designer creates sandcastle suburbia
Chad Wright's Master Plan project populates his local sea shores with the tract housing of his childhood
Artist builds his own egg-shaped home
The Exbury Egg will serve as Stephen Turner's seaside home, as he studies the effects of climate change
Renzo Piano's hand-made 'fragments' at Gagosian
The Pritzker-Prize winner is the subject of a retrospective at The Gagosian's 522 West 21st Street gallery
Möbius strip proposed for Taiwan arts centre
Culture finds a dramatic setting in Belgian architect Vincent Callebaut's Swallow's Nest concept
From skyscraper to strawscraper
Henning Larsen's Stockholm island tower given a green makeover by local architecture practice Belatchew Labs
Mont Blanc refuge is as pure as the driven snow
Geneva-based Group-H's environmentally sound climber's refuge takes shape in French alps
Viñoly’s NY apartments to be highest in the West
Around $100 million 'should' secure you a penthouse at 432 Park Avenue when it completes in 2015
OOIIO proposes 'frame hotel' on Peruvian cliff
Impossibly named Spanish architecture practice's Unbalance Hotel responds to brief from Lima promoter
Peter Zumthor unveils his new LACMA
First look at plans for the LA museum the architect is referring to as "The Black Flower"
New art quarter takes shape in the Netherlands
80km south of Amsterdam, in the historical forest town of Hertogenbosch, art is finding a new home. . .
John Pawson creates installation in Palladio basilica
Minimalist architect installs Perspectives in Venice's 16th century Basilica di San Giorgio Maggiore
Jean Nouvel and Mia Hägg team up again in France
Habiter Autrement joins the French Pritzker-prize winner in an award-winning social housing development
Penn Station reimagined by four big architects
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Diller Scofidio + Renfro. SHoP, and H3 Hardy Collaboration pitch plans for Penn
Shigeru Ban adds to Hamburg's new cityscape
Water Towers see him join Herzog & de Meuron in Europe's biggest architectural transformation
The water's lovely - and so is the diving board
Studio Zoppini's Rijeka Olympic centre in Croatia mirrors surrounding rocks that jut from the sea
The Los Angeles that might have been
Architecture and Design Museum show exhibits unbuilt plans of Frank Lloyd Wright, John Lautner and Steven Holl
Alvar Aalto library reworked by JKMM
Seinäjoki in Finland boasts seven buildings by modernist master Alvar Aalto - JKMM has just extended one
Skydiving planned in abandoned Warsaw cement silo
Moko Architects have a hair-raising plan for Zeran's defunct warehouses and factories
Richard Meier honoured by Bisazza
Celebrated US architect has huge exhibition in Vicenza to tie in with 50th anniversary year
Could wooden pallets house Parisian students?
Ex-grafitti artist and former Jean Nouvel assistant Stéphane Malka comes up with green solution to housing needs
Is this Zaha Hadid's most futuristic design yet?
New Riyadh KAFD metro features skybridges and meshed Mashrabiya screens
Hugh Broughton Architects create ice station on skis
Halley Research Station in the Antarctic should escape the fate of others - crushed and buried under the snow
Rem Koolhaas and Bjarke Ingels compete in Miami
Rem Koolhaas's OMA and Bjarke Ingels’s BIG submit rival plans for The Miami Beach Convention Center
Dutch diner has American soul
Amsterdam School of Architecture meets 50s American diner in this new café from Derksen Windt Architecten
Beijing island winery is shaped like an asterisk
Japanese architect Keiichiro Sako creates timber-clad winery on man-made lake outside Chinese capital
Frieze architects SO-IL land UC Davis Art Museum
"Curved glass walls and soaring canopy turns traditional museum model inside out," says University Chancellor
Islamic Cemetery nominated for Aga Khan Award
Austrian practice Bernardo Bader Architects creates serene place of rest in the alpine village of Altech
Henning Larsen designs Microsoft Danish HQ
Lyngby-Taarbæk complex foreshadows leading centre of knowledge and creativity in Northern Europe
Tallest wooden building in Canada breaks ground
Apart from metal joinery and concrete foundations Michael Green's aptly named Wood Innovation Design Centre is six storeys of pure wood including the columns, beams and floor - even the elevator and stair core
Nice day for a white wedding
Hong Kong born Danny Cheng designs The White Chapel for upmarket nuptials
Grimshaw’s Queens Museum of Art nears completion
He joins Aymer Embury III, Daniel Chait and Rafael Viñoly who've all worked on the New York City Building
Peter Zumthor reimagines a 21st century LACMA
Pritzker Prize winner set to reveal his vision for the museum at new exhibition The Presence of the Past in June
RIBA honours India's modernist master
The British architectural body salutes the great Indian architect Charles Correa in new Indian season
Tiny Faroe Islands’ get the BIG treatment
50,000 strong community gets a taste of starchitecture courtesy of Bjarke Ingels and his team
Herzog & de Meuron elevate the beautiful game
Swiss architects break ground on Stade de Bordeaux - home to Euro 2016
OMA creates new stock exchange in China
"Floating base is a physical materialisation of the virtual stockmarket," says Rem Koolhaas
A Brazilian show for a gallery never to be built
Sao Paulo's Museu de Arte Moderna will show off plans for its new home later this year - despite staying put
British firm offsets Soviet gem with a glass spiral
Robin Monotti Architects designs complementary building next to the brutalist Bank of Georgia in Tbilisi
Pedro Ramirez Vazquez 1919 - 2013
Mexico's foremost architect and chairman of the 1968 Olympic Games dies age 94
Vietnam's flood-proof bamboo houses
H&P Architects have designed affordable, floating dwellings for Vietnam's flood-stricken regions
National Theatre unveils red summer shed
The South Bank's temporary theatre is "less a building than an art installation" say architects Haworth Tompkins
Le Corbusier roof reborn as a gallery
The roof terrace of Marseille's Cité Radieuse will reopen this summer as an arts space
Foster + Partners' Apple HQ goes $2bn over budget
The late Steve Jobs' insistence on the finest building materials may account for the tech firms large overspend
See Eric Owen Moss's Waffle and Cactus Tower
The Californian firm turn a 70-year-old Culver City industrial lot into a green, new media complex
When Soviet architecture went West
A new exhibition rethinks the USSR's architectural legacy, by focusing on the softer styles that came after Stalin
Singapore's great concrete street-food court
Satay by the Bay brings Singapore's contemporary architecture down to a lush, human scale
LA celebrates its arty, architectural “looseness”
Everything Loose Will Land explores the intersection between architecture and other visual arts in 70s LA
San Francisco's Grand Central for the 21st Century
Cesar Pelli's designs for San Francisco's Transbay Transit Area include a park, amphitheatre and office block
MVRDV bring urban renewal to France
The Dutch architecture and design practice set ou its plans for one of France's less lovely new towns
Melbourne gets Southern Hemisphere's tallest tower
Fender Katsalidis’ 388-metre skyscraper, Australia 108, approved by Melbourne authorities for a 2018 completion
The NYC penthouse with an 80-ft slide
The SkyHouse takes a century-old skyscraper and turns its upper floors into a playful residential dream
See Michigan's floating house pavilion
Mark's House is both a cooling summer pavilion, and a telling commentary on life in Flint, Michigan
Rooftop running track for Chinese primary school
LYCS architecture save space by putting the athletics facilities on the top of TianTai Second Primary School
Ilse Crawford creates home from home in Stockholm
Soho House New York designer works her magic at new hotel in Fredrik Dahlberg-designed Stockholm building
Could The Twist beat Zaha's Tokyo stadium?
French architects MenoMenoPiu and FHF submit an impressive rival bid for Japan's 2020 Olympic stadium
Polar Umbrella takes on climate change
Derek Pirozzi's idea combats global warming by attempting to rebuild ever-shrinking polar ice sheets
Toyo Ito wins the Pritzker Prize
Japanese architect and Phaidon subject wins architecture's highest honour
Artist and architect elevates sport to new level
University professor, artist and architect Guzmán de Yarza Blache demonstrates multi-tasking abilities in Spain
Towering proposal for reclaimed Hong Kong airport
Architect MA2 calls the tower "an expression of fluid movement that manifests into a series of folds and creases"
Snøhetta designs cave painting museum
As publishers of the very fine Cave Art we approve of this new design to house the cave paintings of Lascaux
Henna tattoos inspire Mumbai mega tower
WS Atkins's stunning Namaste Tower draws design inspiration from Indian henna hand decorations
Zaha Hadid building to put Hunan on global arts map
Changsha Meixi Lake International Culture & Arts Centre will give Chinese province a new cultural and civic core
How green architecture transformed a brutalist house
Designed by Barry Byrne 80 years ago, Mudagreen give the Williams-Levant House a 21st century reinvention
Prepare for MoMA's Le Corbusier retrospective
From Italian watercolours through to a fitted kitchen, new MoMA show promises to be nothing if not comprehensive
Bob Hope's John Lautner house for sale at $50m
Architect believed his buildings should create timeless, free and joyous spaces for all activities of life
Belgian architect creates sustainable farmscrapers
Vincent Callebaut imagines Asian Cairns, a group of sustainable horticultural towers in Shenzen, China
MAD creates 'doughnut' hotel for Sheraton Huzhou
Young practice clads metal façade with LED light system which displays patterns on surface of surrounding lake
'Cubist' hotel opens in Spain
Mup-Arq creates 'tumbling' concrete and corten steel hotel blocks in Spanish village of Villabuena de Alava
Concrete goes green in China
A set of twisted concrete blinds actually allows a new Chinese clothing facility to save 40% of its energy
Skopje chops Soviet gems in favour of new builds
The Macedonian capital's new architectural initiative has overlooked some great 20th century landmarks
Gensler shakes up Silicon Valley
Triangular buildings for graphics tech giant Nvidia break the architectural mould in Santa Clara
Zaha Hadid designs new centre for Bratislava
Socialist architecture did not enjoy its finest moment in Bratislava - Zaha Hadid is out to rectify that
Álvaro Siza designs fire station
Last year's Venice Biennale Golden Lion winner designs first fire station - at the grand age of 80
Herzog & de Meuron redefines the exhibition space
Globally in-demand architecture practice finds time to create the perfect exhibition hall in native Switzerland
OOIIO Architecture's latest Icelandic adventure
Fast-rising architecture practice looks again to Iceland for it's next proposal - based on sailors' pullover patterns
London hospital builds lullaby factory
British practice Studio Weave turns a cramped hospital courtyard into a kid friendly installation
Major Louis I Kahn retrospective at Vitra
First major retrospective in 20 years for legendary American architect charts his pioneering use of concrete, his visionary urban plans and his continuing influence on the architecture of Southeast Asia
A look inside Google's new Tel Aviv HQ
Cobbled streets, bohemian cafés, a slide instead of a lift (what could possibly go wrong?) and a tractor adorn the 'communication landscapes' of the search giant's new Israel office
Brutalist Paul Rudolph’s Orange County Government Center saved from demolition at the last minute
Iconic building by architect featured in our book Concrete is spared after Democrats and Republicans join forces
Swifts get their own luxury condo in Poland
Modern architecture is killing off the swift population. Enter Menthol Architects with a Vitamin Green style idea
Richard Meier's homage to concrete
Architect showcases self-cleaning, pollution-zapping new kind of concrete for Italcementi's Bergamo HQ
Dyed concrete entices Seoul’s dotcommers
Latest creation from Mass Studies aims to spark migration from the city to a picturesque island off the mainland
2013 Serpentine Pavilion commission goes to Phaidon favourite Sou Fujimoto
The 41-year-old Japanese architect and Phaidon contributor is the youngest ever to be commissioned
Farrells builds first skyscraper in Cambodia
39-storey Vattanac Capital Tower in Phnom Penh becomes the country’s highest high-rise
SOM's 'classical column' rises in China
Just 5 feet shorter than the Shard, Skidmore Owings & Merrill's Zhengzhou tower is clad in painted aluminium
Peter Zumthor reveals the secrets of Therme Vals
New video sees him discussing his philosophy, why his most celebrated structure was originally destined to be 'hollowed out' and why he 'drops his pencil' if he thinks a client simply wants to order a Peter Zumthor building
Ex-OMA architect Fernando Romero creates flying saucer-style photo museum in the Arabian desert
Mexican follows his much-admired Soumaya museum in Mexico City with an even more audacious concept
BIG architects tear it up in Fort Lauderdale
Two buildings are 'torn open' giving the neighbourhood access to the canals
Montreal church is repurposed as a gallery
Provencher Roy + Associes Architectes addition boasts suitably Canadian features including 'glazed igloo'
Dutch cyclists get floating flyover
Netherlands bridge specialists IPV Delft build motorway-style aerial intersection for two-wheeled travellers
Foster + Partners designs 3D moon base
Global architecture practice uses latest rapid prototyping to imagine a lunar base for European Space Agency
Deep sea hospitality planned for Dubai
It's built tall and supertall, now Dubai mines the sea depths for its latest architectural venture
China indulges its love affair with the car
New range of exhibition centres by Marques And Jordy set to roll out in September
Islamic influences inspire exhibition centre in China
Sure Architects uses West Xia Helan stone and traditional Chinese techniques to create Islamic patterning
Windows are reinvented in Peruvian tower concept
Translucent fibreglass composite lit by LEDs while each aperture is covered in a thin film to generate solar energy
Big Apple's little dwellings
Winner of the AdAPT NYC micro-apartment project boasts ceiling storage space and a double wall-mounted bed
Herzog & de Meuron add to London skyline
Swiss architects to design new residential tower at Wood Wharf adjacent to Canary Wharf
New inter faith chapel points to North Star
Symbolically important Polaris provides focal point for new Florida chapel via giant skylight above wooden spire
Steven Holl's yin yang museums
The award-winning American architect creates twin museums for a Chinese Eco-City
Giant giraffe animates Paris children’s centre
French practice Hondelatte Laporte Architectes creates quirky nursery and childcare centre in Paris suburb
Steven Holl lets the light in in China
'Slices' cut out of concrete exoskeletons keep the neighbours happy by allowing sunlight to shine through
Space centre opens in Slovenia
Space technology museum is based on a habitable space station concept by local resident Herman Noordung
New show uncovers LA has it might have been
Los Angeles' Architecture and Design Museum prepares for a show of local proposals that never broke ground
Protestors don Niemeyer masks to save Brasilia
The architectural founders of the Brazilian capital are invoked in a protest against plans to overhaul the city
London firm win Iraqi Parliament competition
The Stirling-prize winning firm Assemblage won the $1billion competition, with a low-cost, eco-friendly pitch
Atrium Studio designs for Moscow's Silicon Valley
Designers look to traditional townhouse style to house scientific brainboxes outside Russian capital
Copenhagen plans for five new artificial islands
Planning Department wants to add to existing islands with new ones created by architects Tredje Natur and PK3
Will BIG's viewing tower put Phoenix on the map?
The Danish firm reinterprets Seattle's Space Needle with push-pin style viewing tower for Arizona's state capital
Whale backbone inspires spiral staircase
Canadian architect Andrew McConnell works the animal's vertebrae into a beguiling upward spiral
Jean Nouvel creates Paris art island
Pritzker-Prize winning architect oversees the redevelopment of a former Renault factory on île Seguin
The rail bridge as public art
Andrew Leicester's bridge in Los Angeles references the indigenous peoples of the San Gabriel Valley
MoMA buys flat-pack kitchen
Art museum acquires an original Le Corbusier fitted kitchen from his iconic Unité d'Habitation in Marseille
Frank Gehry's fish lamps alight at The Gagosian
The Pritzker Prize-winning architect shows his piscine interior lights, sculpted from a type of Formica
John Pawson designs new Schrager Miami venture
The hotel impresario's Miami Beach Edition Residences will have their own skating rink and bowling alley
Daniel Libeskind adds to Jewish Museum, Berlin
Architect reworks the Central Flower Market Hall, a 1960s industrial building with curving walls by Bruno Grimmek
New city proposed on banks of the Ganges
Studio Symbiosis plans futuristic-looking development of regimented rectilinear towers along riverbanks of Kanpur
Zaha Hadid design becomes first 'faked' building
Chinese developers 'pay homage' to Beijing's Wangjing Soho, and they're due to complete before the original
Le Corbusier, painter, photographer and polymath, gets full NYC retrospective at MoMA next summer
Jean-Louis Cohen, author of our wonderful The Future of Architecture Since 1889, curates MoMA show
Texas pavilion borrows from Mexican beach huts
Cooper Joseph Studio creates deceptively light box on three columns in our favourite material - concrete!
BIG designs with a twist in Miami
The Danish architects raise the bar for Miami condos with a truly innovative design
The Portuguese architects' straw ziggurat
The IUT Group bring modern design to bear on one of the world's oldest building materials
Tyrolean festival venue mimics its surroundings
Architects Delugan Meissel use the crevices of the surrounding area to indicate entrances to the building
Haiti to get new stadium designed by Carlos Zapata
Dangerous slum area Cité Soleil to get new stadium designed with Palestinian and Haiti national team players
2012 in architecture
In an age of e-readers libraries seemed to pop up everywhere, emerging economies built entire cities to cope with rapid urbanisation and young guns eschewed big commissions to create something small, local and sustainable
Pennsylvania architects build hobbit house
Extreme US Tolkien fan commissions an inspired Lord of The Rings folly for his Middle Earth memorabilia
Is China's lakeside city the future of urban planning?
China's next new city will be designed by US firm KPF, next to Hunan's regional capital, around a 40-hectare lake
Owen Hatherley blasts architectural photography
Marxist writer says contemporary architectural culture "no longer has an interest in anything but its own image" (but he saves a heap of praise for some well-respected Phaidon practitioners of the art!)
Daniel Libeskind rolls out ultimate prefab
Shipped within months and built in weeks - your chance to live in a dream home, anywhere in the world
SOM build 'city within a city' in Abu Dhabi
Vast hospital complex by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill aims to foster a sense of community in the emirate
The only way is up
Dutch architect Hans van Heeswijk employs (non) lateral thinking for his out-of-town developments
ar+d Emerging Architecture Award winners
A Japanese glass house numbers among the winning works by architects under the age of 45
Herzog & de Meuron's Miami Art Museum 'reconnects residents with climate'
Speaking at Art Basel Miami, Jacques Herzog pledges an end to fur coat, air-conditioned culture
Portugal's eco-friendly forest resort
Luis Rebelo de Andrade and Diogo Aguiar create low key architectural gem in spa town of Pedras Salgadas
SANAA designs new Louvre annexe
Pritzker Prize-winning architects create Louvre Lens on the French Belgian border
Max Dudler makes sweet music (library) in Essen
Marbled windows created from 12 photographs taken at local quarry correspond to 12 notes in a score
Frank Gehry's first building in Australia
Dubbed The Paper Bag, Sydney's new University of Technology features an undulating wall of 320,000 bricks
Buildings that changed the world - Brasilia, Brazil
President Juscelino Kubitschek's commission for a new capital city helped seal Oscar Niemeyer's reputation
Carlos Arroyo creates three buildings in one
Spanish architect designs ingenious reflective façade for a school for the performing arts in Belgium
New York's AIDS memorial gets the go-ahead
A canopied garden is to be built in Greenwich Village, on the site of the city's original AIDS hospital
Oscar Niemeyer, Brazil's Picasso of Concrete
Latin America's greatest architect died of respiratory failure in Rio yesterday, ten days short of his 105 birthday
Christmas with the Zumthors
Would you like to rent the Pritzker-prize winner's Swiss holiday home this season?
Terraced housing Chilean style
Santiago architects Elton + Leniz build this stepped seafront house right on the vertiginous Pacific coast
Beijing's pedal-powered mobile home
The two-metre wide Bao House by dot Architects is made from polyurethane and sits on the back of a tricycle
//hapo Museum in South Africa tells history of nation
Unusually named Copper-clad structure aims to do for South Africa what Libeskind's Jewish Museum did for Berlin
French port turns its station into a theatre
Contemporary motifs meet neo-classicism when Saint-Nazaire's bomb-damaged station is renovated
Farming and music come together in Bordeaux
Parisian architecture practice SOA combines organic vertical farming with live performances. Intrigued? Read on
Zaha Hadid to build Japan’s National Stadium
With an eye on its bid for the 2020 Olympics Japan sets some strict rules for the designer of its National Stadium
French architect Edouard François makes "something very ugly - to make the rest look pretty"
In his schme to revive a Parisian suburb the architect creates an architectural sandwich of differing styles
Rem Koolhaas invents the future for libraries
Plans for The Qatar National Library reveal futuristic digital hub with 300 public computers and online databases
How one Korean artist invited the outside in
South Korean artist Young Jeong commissions his own live/work space in keeping with the natural surroundings
Dutch architects turn Moroccan market into waterfall
Rotterdam practice TomDavid wins first place in a competition to design a sustainable square for Casablanca
Vicenza honours Palladio with new museum
The city turns one of its finest buildings, Palazzo Barbarano, into a tribute to its famous architect, Andrea Palladio
Buildings that changed the world - The Weissenhof Settlement, Stuttgart
How socialist ideals and an all star cast of architects including Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius revolutionised affordable housing for both blue and white colour workers on a hill just outside Stuttgart
The Iron Curtain is lifted on Modernist architecture
Brilliant new show in Vienna looks at Socialist architecture from Russia and its satellite states
Does Gehry's memorial really look like a missile silo?
The Pritzker-prize winner's plans for The Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial are rebuffed by the President's offspring
John Pawson curates Phaidon online exhibition
Churches, houses, stadia and even a police station from 20th-Century World Architecture picked for online show
Pilgrims’ progress inspired by great design
Aptly-named Swiss architects Christ & Gantenbein build inspirational concrete structure on Mexican pilgrim route
Total’s Berlin HQ has the ripple effect
Barkow Leibinger's faceted concrete piers twist and turn, almost as if they’re plaited
MAD create new contoured village by a Chinese lake
700 apartment settlement blends with Taiping lakeside at foot of eastern China’s Huangshan Mountains
Buildings that changed the world - The Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
How Frank Gehry revitalised a city and its arts scene by using a computer programme he didn't quite understand
20 ton 'treehouse' built in Swedish forest
"Nothing remotely similar has ever been done before" say Rintala Eggertsson Architects
Slum solutions in tall and short order
Two different architectural practices offer two very different visions for urban renewal
Frank Lloyd Wright for sale - but is it authentic?
Scholars dispute the authenticity of this Petre island home, built from Wright plans drawn up over 50 years ago
Hadid on life as an Arab woman architect
'The moment my woman-ness is accepted, the Arab-ness becomes a problem', says Pritzker Prize-winner
J Mayer H's Black Sea sculpture: foundation or folly?
German firm's striking new structure opens in the Georgian Black Sea Port of Lazika but it has an uncertain future
Art lovers protected by giant funnels in Taiwan
Dadong Art Centre in Taiwan uses membrane roofing and funnels to deflect extreme weather
Saadiyat: 21st century architectural mecca?
The newly developed Abu Dhabi island is set to house architecture by Pritzker Prize winners Frank Gehry, Sir Norman Foster, Jean Nouvel, Zaha Hadid and Tadao Ando
Mexican architects model chapel on Virgin Mary
Robes of Our Lady of Guadalupe provide divine inspiration for architects FREE in Miami
Oscar Niemeyer designs Converse range
The Brazilian Modernist master architect works his philosophy of curves into a new range of shoes
Will Foster's Paris Twin Towers get the go ahead?
Two 323 metre-high skyscrapers designed by Foster+Partners could change the shape of Paris skyline
Mercury City beats Shard to 'tallest in Europe'
New Moscow tower tops out above Renzo Piano's Shard to become tallest in Europe
HENN build 'floating' museum on the Yangtze River
The diamond-panelled Nantong Museum of Urban Planning is HENN's latest high-profile waterside project
Studio Fuksas covers building in petals
Innovative roof system sees 11 steel petals protect Georgian Government workers against inclement weather
Snøhetta's interactive opera house
Norwegian architecture practice aims to democratise opera with new structure in Busan, Korea
Martin's Rauch's mud house
Austrian architect is at the forefront of a number of innovators building with mud - why?
The ultimate off street parking
Moomoo Architects' next project: a house with parking space - for a yacht
Zaha Hadid designs house for Naomi Campbell
Russian businessman Vladislav Doronin commissions Dame Hadid to create house for supermodel girlfriend
World's largest dome built in Singapore
With it's moveable domed roof Arup's National Stadium resembles an old school Bond villain's lair
Could you live in a house made from cow's blood?
Eco architecture graduate Jack Munro uses slaughterhouse waste to build houses in Egypt
Japanese architects put a tree in a townhouse
Japan's UID architecture practice nestles a garden within a house on a cloistered spot in Fukuyama
Shigeru Ban's Moscow pavilion opens
First look at Shigeru Ban's pavilion for Dasha Zhukova's Gorky Park Garage Center
Renzo Piano talks about his favourite buildings
Architect picks five of his favourite buildings from our book 20th Century World Architecture in today's Times
Norman Foster re-imagines Grand Central Station
Architect is one of three names working on reinvigorating the station which marks its 100th anniversary next year
Renzo Piano designs LA movie museum
Architect works with Zoltan Pali on $250 million museum for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Richard Meier gives students a rare look at collages
Architect returns to his old university with a special surprise for students
New art museum not designed by Zaha Hadid
New MOCA Cleveland is designed by a Middle Eastern-born, London-based female architect - Farshid Moussavi
High speed hub takes shape in Spain
Architects Abalos+Sentkiewicz use aluminium to great effect in riverside town of Logroño
New Zaha Hadid art museum opens next month
Works by Josef Albers, Damien Hirst, and Andy Warhol to grace Eli and Edyth Broad's art museum
Herzog & de Meuron's 'Jenga tower' gets go ahead
Herzog & de Meuron's Jenga tower in Tribeca is finally greenlit but Anish Kapoor's street level art work is uncertain
GMP's very Grand Theatre
German architectural giants Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner (GMP) create shell-like theatre in China
Louis Kahn's last design opens this month
The plans for an FDR memorial he was carrying when he died are completed four decades after the commission
Eero Saarinen's War Room
Fascinating exhibition examines the mid-century architect and designer's role in the nascent CIA
Rare shots of lost Soviet architecture
British photographer roots out early examples of Soviet building design, constructed before Stalin's reign
Zaha Hadid's Beijing 'Galaxy' nears completion
No corner suites in this new office and retail entertainment complex - Hadid's first in the Chinese capital
Zaha Hadid's Innovation Tower
Architect reimagines the idea of a tower for a design school in Hong Kong, the city where her career began
Starbucks' first drive-through, delivered on a truck
The coffee chain's new LEED-certified outlet combines environmentalism with portability and architectural flourish
Are Herzog & de Meuron back in to bat at Lord's?
Swiss architecture firm includes a hospital extension to its revised bid for west London cricket club site
Foster beats Hadid, Koolhaas to NY commission
Four names invited to pitch for 425 Park Avenue - sadly there can only be one winner. . .
Grayson Perry designs Essex holiday home
The cross-dressing Turner-Prize winner says the house traces the life of Essex everywoman, Julie
Frank Gehry reworks downtown Toronto
The Canadian super architect develops downtown Toronto with the help of local theatre impresario David Mirvish
The Marcel Duchamp-inspired Ghost house
French artists Christophe Berdaguer and Marie Péjus turn old prison into art space via Surrealism and polystyrene
Peter Zumthor to be given a gold medal by the queen
The 'architect's architect' is bestowed the RIBA Royal Gold Medal, personally approved by HRH herself
Klein Dytham to a T
Klein Dytham's subtle design for Japanese book shop Tsutaya sees them cover the facade with interlocking Ts
Frank Lloyd Wright in the doghouse
One of the legendary architect's most unusual (and secret) commissions has been recreated for new documentary
Libeskind, Hadid and Yansong’s favourite buildings
To mark the 40th anniversary of UNESCO's World Heritage Convention, CNN quizzes architects on best designs
Can this building forge a better future for city living?
Siemens' sustainable cities building, designed by Wilkinson Eyre Architects, officially opens this weekend
Melbourne University commissions Moshe Safdie
The Israeli-born, US-based architecture star will design Monash University's new Zelman Cowen music school
ALPHAville's geometric house
W-Window House in Tokyo by Japanese architects ALPHAville, is basically a rectangle - with a triangular slice
Starck goes prefabulous
Philippe Starck teams up with Slovenian engineering firm, Riko, to build Democratic Ecological Architecture
Russian Constructivists meet Aussie Students
Undergraduates at the University of Western Australia make models of unbuilt Russian Constructivist buildings
Amsterdam's bathtub gallery opens this weekend
The Stedelijk Museum striking new wing, dubbed the 'bathtub', welcomes gallery-goers from this Sunday
KAW create a fortress for women
Victims of human trafficking find hope in this newly greened office block created from a former 70s police station
Renzo Piano's new art museum opens this month
Oslo's Astrup Fearnley Museet opens with show featuring work by Cindy Sherman, Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst
Concrete gets another rave review
Atlantic Cities writes "The eye candy here, from the graceful to the brash is enough to open the mind of any skeptic"
Jean Nouvel and Mia Hägg's new look for Stockholm
New collaboration at the Venice Architecture Biennale sees them propose more 'people friendly' Swedish capital
Could Moscow become world's first eco metropolis?
A joint bid to redevelop 150,000 hectares south west of the city aims to ease pressure on the Russian capital
Plans for new London airport revealed
Architecture practice Gensler reveals London Britannia Airport - a radical floating structure in the Thames Estuary
Stacked Cabin - a deceptively simple hideaway
Look carefully in the Wisconsin woods - very carefully - and you might just find this Johnsen Schmaling gem
Mies van der Rohe house opens to the public
McCormick House is restored by Elmhurst Art Museum with new sections open to view
Richard Meier - first ever building in China
The Corian-clad OCT Clubhouse in Shenhzen, China is open for business. How can we become a member?
The concrete house with access all areas
Every room in this recently completed concrete Kyoto house by Torafu Architects is accessible by wheelchair
Venice Biennale 'can't get any worse' says Wolf D Prix
"Venice is no longer about lively discussion and criticism," says outspoken architect. "Architects are playing on a sinking gondola while, outside in the real world, our leaky trade is sinking into powerlessness and irrelevance"
Rem Koolhaas wins Jencks Award
OMA founder scoops RIBA award for bringing architecture and contemporary culture closer together
Herzog & de Meuron make mini protest in Venice
Foam interiors of unbuilt Hamburg Elbphilharmonie building are surrounded by uncensored newspaper articles
Toyo Ito and Alvaro Siza win big at Venice Biennale
Ito dedicates Golden Lion for Japanese pavilion to victims of tsunami - Siza takes Lifetime Achievement Award
Zaha Hadid praises Olympics architect Frei Otto
Hadid's Arum installation at Venice Biennale pays homage to pioneering work of Munich '72 architect
"Honey I shrink wrapped the building!"
Architects SO-IL take novel approach to Kukje art gallery in Seoul - enveloping it in chain mail
Norman Foster dazzles at Venice Biennale
Lord Foster teams up with artist Charles Sandison and film director Carlos Carcas at Architecture Biennale
Frank Gehry designs new Facebook headquarters
Largest open-plan office in the world will feature a park on the roof with a walking trail for employees
Greenland proposed as new Euro travel hub
Ambitious transport project for Greenland will debut at Venice Architecture Biennale
Richard Meier condo is most expensive ever in Israel
Meier on Rothschild features a 32nd story penthouse with bullet-proof panic room - it could be yours for $50 million
FAT create Museum of Copying at Venice Biennale
London architecture practice creates a 5 metre high re-make of Palladio’s Villa Rotunda in Venice
The architect's photographer of choice, Hélène Binet
Binet's work is the subject of a series of exhibitions this year, starting at the Venice Biennale
MVRDV debut in Poland with Baltyk Tower
Baltyk Tower cleverly circumvents Poznań planning restrictions (and features a one room hotel)
British architecture's Olympic spirit in Venice
Instead of one starchitect representing Britain, 10 relative newcomers put forward ideas for the future
Porsche building matches beauty of its cars
HENN architects design streamlined pavilion for new Porsche visitor centre in Wolfsburg
Labor 13's new slant on the greenhouse
Czech architects employ socialist values of make and mend for house in Vernerice
The housing complex inspired by a roller coaster
Parisians Peripheriques Architectes take inspiration from the fun fair
The best start in life
GA Architecture's Lapierre School in Lens, France is designed to inspire little people
A beach house for all the family
If you really love your family why not grow old by the sea with them? That was the brief for the S Cube Chalet
Zaha Hadid's Venice Biennale installation
The pleated shell-like work embodies the 2012 president David Chipperfield's theme of 'common ground'
Is The Shard a "catastrophe"?
Some commentators think the tallest building in Europe has broken London's rules
RIBA's sandcastle competition is on tomorrow
The West Wittering competition was rained off back in June, so it's been rescheduled to take place this weekend
Saudi Arabia's new-look airport
From 2014 Hajj pilgrims can expect a new railway station, restaurant and hotel
The Japanese house that's an architectural timeline
The pre-war, traditional wooden Kyo-machiya merchants' house is proud of its 20th century extensions
The Iranian Army's brilliant new barracks
Servicemen and women could soon be enjoying rooftop gardens with fine views over their capital soon
Is this the world's greenest building?
Shimizu Corporation HQ is all you'd expect from a company that designs space hotels and floating cities
Iran's new stock exchange
Alejandro Aravena's design for Tehran's stock exchange is minimal, earthquake resistant and glows like a lamp
Zaha Hadid's Pierres Vives, Mariscal's wallpaper and the Archipelago cinema at the Venice Biennale
Phaidon's Eye On Architecture takes in stories in the UK, Australia, France, Italy and Spain
Who knew concrete could be so cool?
Alien settlement or Swiss gallery? Concrete is full of buildings that stun, amaze and occasionally shock
Concrete celebrated by Estonia at Venice Biennale
The modernist quasi-citadel of the Linnahall Convention Center is the focus of homage to concrete architecture
Villa Extramuros by Vora Arquitectura
Villa Extramuros by Vora Arquitectura - a minimalist guest house run by Parisian owners with exquisite taste
Nicole Kidman's Richard Meier designed apartment
For sale: 176 Perry Street one very careful owner and with views of another stunning Meier building nearby
Architects bring new meaning to mansion on the hill
Fran Silvestre Arquitectos in Spain create an amazingly secluded house in Ayora, near Valencia
Hadid in hot water, Chipperfield's common ground, Adjaye's double whammy and a new Fuksas airport
Phaidon's Eye on the Architecture world takes in the latest stories from China, Canada, Georgia and Belgium
Herzog & de Meuron's new art museum almost ready
Herzog & de Meuron's long awaited Parrish Art museum on Long Island will finally open this November
Zaha Hadid - planners are doing 'enormous damage’
Architect on fiery form during Anglo-Chinese business summit in London
Daniel Libeskind's 18.36.54 House
18 planes, 36 points, and 54 lines of the spiralling ribbon which defines its living spaces - the clue is in the name
MOMA show looks at new ways to house America
Five architects come up with a plan to reinvigorate America's inner cities - and maybe the economy
Sir Norman Foster - 'My time as a bouncer'
Architect reveals what it took to get started on stellar career in Architecture Week interview
World's first building inspired by hip hop
What happens when an urban culture-loving Melbourne architect builds his own apartment?
Phaidon's eye on the architecture world - 25.07.12
This week we look at low-rises in Beijing, Brazil's lantern house, and Yo! Sushi's new real-estate venture
Tino Sehgal at Tate, managing MOCA and the postman who collected Ed Ruscha and Donald Judd
Phaidon's daily look at the best art, architecture, design and photography stories on the web
Phaidon's eye on the architecture world - 18.07.12
Our weekly round-up takes in bijou tree-houses, 'crap' flats and a Royal repelling down The Shard
Frank Gehry in the Big Easy
Brad Pitt gets the international architect to build a house for New Orleans' flood victims
Phaidon's eye on the architecture world - 11.07.12
This week's international special takes us to New York, Ho Chi Minh City, Barcelona, Bogata and Barking
Peter Zumthor working on film with Wim Wenders
Architect's next project to be the subject of a 3D film shot by the legendary film director
Zaha Hadid falls out with Olympics organisers
Aquatics architect complains that she hasn't been given an invite to any Olympic events
Phaidon's eye on the architecture world - 04.07.12
This week's international round up takes in Iceland, Germany, America, the UK, Holland and even Timbuktu
elBulli comes to Paris... and London... and Rome...
Architects Rodero Beggiao unveil plans for a travelling elBulli restaurant, foundation and workshop pop up
Santiago Calatrava hits back at critics over cost
Under attack in Spain and criticised over the cost of his New York Transit Hub the architect comes out fighting
Peter Zumthor - exclusive look at architecture models
Exhibition of the architect's 'skeletons and scenarios' opens in gallery space of a post office in Lake Constance
Phaidon's eye on the architecture world - 27.6.12
China, New Zealand, America, Chile, Singapore and the UK under the spotlight in our international round up
Herzog & de Meuron do it again
Pavilion like structure of the Kinderspital in Zurich gets unanimous vote of confidence
Constructivist radio tower in danger
Shukhov Tower in Moscow, the inspiration for the Gherkin, could be lost if Putin refuses to fund restoration
Terunobu Fujimori's teetering tea houses
Scholar turned architect featured in Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture opens innovative Munich show
Architects auction sketches on eBay
Frank Gehry, Renzo Piano, Richard Meier and Daniel Libeskind donate works for Architecture for Humanity charity
Norman Foster redesigns Fidel Castro's ballet school
Foster and ballet superstar Carlos Acosta work together on buildings abandoned after 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
Red House at Red Hill
Australian architects preserve the peace at upscale Melbourne city dwellers' getaway
Phaidon's eye on the architecture world - 20.6.12
Abu Dhabi, UK, Sweden, Sri Lanka, Australia, America and Denmark all figure in our international round up
Abu Dhabi's sun sensitive twin towers
Al Bahar Towers marry old and new technology in a clever and culturally appropriate way
Take a look inside this Richard Meier house
Watch a video of the legendary architect showing you round his 1967 Smith House in Darien, Connecticut
Phaidon's eye on the architecture world
Our international architecture round up takes in Brazil, Spain, UAE, UK, the US, China, Italy, Dubai and Peru
Octopus-inspired Olympic architecture
The shooting venue for the London 2012 Olympics features sucker-style spots to keep those inside cool
The fire station in the mountain
A volunteer fire station in the Alps has been carved into a sheer slab of rock
The ‘99%’ Pierre Koenig House
The final design by Mid-Century modern architect Pierre Koenig is up for sale
Frank Lloyd Wright’s disabled-access house
The only home that the celebrated architect made for a wheelchair-bound man is set to become a museum
The Shard in all its timelapse glory
Finally, a video documenting the rise, and rise, of Renzo Piano’s ‘small town’ sized building
Virgin Atlantic's pop up in the sky
New Upper Class bar follows the trend on the ground for pop up and boutique bars
The greening of the Empire State building
New York's most iconic building has been given a $500 million plus retrofit - but you won't spot it from the outside
You know you're an architecture student when. . .
…you’re measuring the school’s step height for reference, and a guy walks by saying “18.5 cm”
Venice Architecture Biennale - five new countries join
Angola, Kosovo, Kuwait, Peru and Turkey invited by curator David Chipperfield to take part
Hella Jongerius leads redesign of UN building
Interiors of Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer-designed New York HQ to be transformed by Dutch designer
Norse mythology inspires zero energy sauna
Italian-Swedish architect’s zero energy sauna borrows elements from folklore
Todd Saunders' ultimate artist studio
Canadian architect's studio on remote island of Fogo looks like a great place to create
Concrete - the rehabilitation starts here
Urban Architecture Office's concrete FKI House in Japan is part of a growing trend - Phaidon has it covered
A very chilled out building
The Social Services Building by Dosmasuno architects in Spain takes green to a completely new level
J Mayer H's strangely shaped buildings
German architecture practice builds asymmetric police station and justice house in Georgian town
Vancouver tower channels spirit of the Flatiron
BIG architects' Beach & Howe building 'swerves' away from the noise and exhaust of the nearby Granville bridge
A new architectural landmark for downtown LA
Diller Scofidio + Renfro's Broad Museum takes its place alongside buildings by Frank Gehry and Arata Isozaki
Mies van der Rohe star of the Google doodle
Crown Hall is featured on the Google doodle as we look at how Mies van der Rohe changed architecture teaching
Looking back at the future of architecture
Jean-Louis Cohen's The Future Of Architecture 'expands architectural history's perspective' says Hans Ibelings
Mark Ronson's musical architecture
Visitors will use architecture to remix the producer's Olympic music at London 2012 games
Urbanus create high tech Marriage Center in China
Chinese architects add to the fun of the big day with floating pathways, elevated entrances and spiral hallways
Wulf Architekten make beautiful music
Architects add another storey to continue the story of a 1970s cube-shaped music school in Hamm, Germany
Wolfgang Tschapller's Viennese fancy
Wolfgang Tschapller wins the competition to transform the university where he studied architecture as a student
How Buckminster Fuller inspired Mad Max
The Thunderdome is the evil twin of Buckminster Fuller's geodesic domes according to Tom Morton
Architects :mlzd create perforated bronze museum
Switzerland-based :mlzd's striking museum slots into the 13th century fortified town of Rapperswil-Jona seamlessly
Ministry of Design gets to the point
Singapore-based architects' beach-side gallery space in China seeks to question, disturb and redefine
All eyes turn to Australian architecture
Mark Loughnan, principle architect of HASSELL says now is a great time to be in the Southern Hemisphere
Sharp new talent wins MoMA PS1 competition
HWKN's mist-blasting water-expelling design due to open this summer
John Pawson's Muse Music
The acclaimed minimalist architect on the music that gets him in a creative mood
Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art gets new look
Architect Sam Marshall on how the city itself inspired his dramatic MCA renovation
Tallest residential building in Manhattan takes shape
Towering a thousand feet over Central Park, Christian de Portzamparc's One 57 is New York's newest des res