All articles by Kester Rattenbury

  • Cover story: Clip, Stamp, Fold focuses more on graphics than content
    Review

    A great little cover-up

    2007-11-29T00:00:00Z

    This riveting show of little magazines reveals a time of independence and challenge, says Kester Rattenbury

  • Coimbra Footbridge, Portugal, 2006.
    Review

    Mind-expanding trip to the frontier

    2007-06-29T00:00:00Z

    Cecil Balmond has made hugely complex ideas rewardingly accessible

  • Details on building the stadium were sadly missing from the lecture.
    Review

    Wembley team disappoints fans

    2007-06-01T00:00:00Z

    Norman Foster and Rod Sheard did not capitalise on a sure-fire scoring opportunity.

  • Artist Olafur Eliasson (left) and architect Kjetil Thorsen in front of an image of their pavilion.
    Building Study

    Laboratory of the senses

    2007-05-04T00:00:00Z

    The collaborating artist and architect arrived at their winning Serpentine Pavilion design by talking abstractly about ideas. But if that is too demanding, just enjoy the beautiful result, advises Kester RattenburyPortrait by Morley von Sternberg

  • La Baignade: net-bottomed pools sunk into a natural bathing lake at Prailles.
    Review

    A display of joie de vivre

    2007-05-03T00:00:00Z

    Patrick Bouchain’s exhibition of three ingenious and diverse projects is fantastic

  • Gianni Botsford’s house in Notting Hill, London, designed to optimise natural light.
    Review

    Playing the computer game

    2007-02-09T00:00:00Z

    Gianni Botsford’s flexible use of computer modelling reveals him as one who bucks architects’ usual traps.

  • Kas Oosterhuis — charmingly frank.
    Review

    Reflections of a model citizen

    2007-02-02T00:00:00Z

    Kester Rattenbury is simultaneously charmed and scared by Kas Oosterhuis’s ‘swarm’ architecture

  • The precast concrete pop-gothic screen signals the new entrance off the piazza.
    Building Study

    Sint Lucas Art Academy, Netherlands by Fat

    2007-01-26T00:00:00Z

    Kester Rattenbury enjoys Fat’s reworking of a Dutch art school, but wonders whether the practice’s quirkiness is a cover for something more serious.

  • Review

    Bob bows out with Barthes

    2006-12-01T00:00:00Z

    The profession came to pay tribute as Maxwell’s last lecture posed the audience some challenging questions.

  • Review

    Engaging with difficult territory

    2006-11-17T00:00:00Z

    Sauerbruch Hutton’s ambitious lecture posed more questions than it answered.

  • Frank Gehry with the film’s director Sydney Pollack.
    Review

    The hero triumphs

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

    A new film about Frank Gehry portrays his genius in imaginative, revealing and often hilarious ways, says Kester Rattenbury

  • Review

    Plenty to bow about

    2006-10-27T00:00:00Z

    Ryue Nishizawa stopped running away long enough to dazzle a sell-out crowd.

  • Opinion

    Our chance to make the Stirling stirring

    2006-10-20T00:00:00Z

    Modern life amazes me. In a world of infinite viewing options, a million people watched the Stirling Prize Live, on Channel 4 last Saturday night.

  • The new entrance to Chalk farm Road.
    Building Study

    Theatre in the round

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    John McAslan & Partners' revamp of the Roundhouse retains the building's essential drama as a venue while giving it a new lease of life

  • Hans Hollein
    Review

    Hans Hollein

    2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

    It's impossible to put a single label on this master of sixties experimentationz

  • House of Martial Facio, by Enrique Virgilio Perez, 1943
    News

    Viva Havana

    2006-04-21T00:00:00Z

    With developers poised to swoop down on Cuba, what will become of Havana’s architecture? Kester Rattenbury says western models of redevelopment may destroy this extraordinary cultural marvel

  • Alain de Botton, author of The Architecture of Happiness, pictured outside Ken Shuttleworth’s Crescent House in Wiltshire.
    Review

    The architecture of yearning

    2006-04-21T00:00:00Z

    Is Alain de Botton making the same arguments as Prince Charles 20 years ago

  • The building presents a new elevation to the playground of a neighbouring primary school.
    Building Study

    All the best moves

    2006-03-17T00:00:00Z

    Sarah Wigglesworth Architects' studios for the Siobhan Davies Dance Company has a synergy with the human body that has delighted the client.

  • The exhibition was compiled by inviting all 2,000 living alumni to send a resume or images and including everything received.
    Review

    From crisis to comfort zone

    2006-02-10T00:00:00Z

    The Cambridge School exhibition is an unquestioning celebration of its influence.

  • Helen & Hard makes use of all available resources,including construction workers’ cabins for housing in the B-Camp project, Stavenger.
    Review

    On the Nordic trail

    2005-11-04T00:00:00Z

    A new show promotes Norway’s architecture, but it is the architects that really sell it.