Oliver Wainwright
Building StudyLondon 2012 Aquatics Centre by Zaha Hadid Architects
The smoothly undulating surface of Zaha Hadid’s stingray-like Aquatics Centre belies its structural complexity. But does the last Olympic Venue to arrive at the party live up to its promise? BD’s then architecture critic Oliver Wainwright went along to have a look.
- Building Study
Evelyn Grace Academy, Brixton, by Zaha Hadid Architects
The aggressive swagger of Zaha Hadid’s Evelyn Grace Academy reflects the hard-edged dynamism found within the school itself
- Building Study
Giant's Causeway visitor centre by Heneghan Peng Architects
Heneghan Peng Architects’ visitor centre for the Giant’s Causeway combines a raw simplicity with a generative grid to create a powerful sense of place
- Tablet only
Venice video: Folk in a Box
David Knight and Cristina Monteiro on bringing flat-pack gothic architecture to the Biennale
- Building Study
Venice Biennale 2012: The Giardini pavilions
Hard bitten by recession, this year’s national pavilions have seen even the most inventive employ a minimal approach
- Building Study
Venice Biennale 2012: The British Pavilion
Is the British Council’s Venice Takeaway junkfood or haute cuisine?
- Multimedia
Venice video: Folk in a Box
David Knight and Cristina Monteiro on bringing flat-pack gothic architecture to the Biennale
- Blogs
The Hospitality Olympics
From pleasure yachts to gigantic tents, the Olympic hospitality houses reveal how the nations like to party
- Technical
Up at the O2 walkway
Rogers Stirk Harbour, Buro Happold and Base Structures have created another reason visit the dome in North Greenwich
- Review
Film review: Eames: The Architect & The Painter
Misty-eyed anecdotes and creative anarchy go hand in hand in a film bursting with the energy of the Eames office
- Blogs
Cannes on Lea
Forman's Fish Island Riviera in Hackney Wick is the most surreal by-product of the Olympics so far
- Opinion
The flaming dandelion
By reinventing the question, Thomas Heatherwick has shown that the Olympic cauldron can be more than a bowl of fire on a stick
- Building Study
Making the most of London’s landmarks
Outside the Olympic Park, London’s existing buildings are taking centre stage in creating a visual spectacle
- Tablet only
London 2012 Olympic Park
The Olympic Park is a tour de force of ecological landscaping, but it has little to do with its East End context
- Building Study
London 2012 Olympic Park
The Olympic Park is a tour de force of ecological landscaping, but it has little to do with its East End context
- Opinion
The Stirling Prize: artificial austerity
This year’s shortlist reveals a fetish for the neo-modern slickness of concrete, glass and steel – but it is the building that pays attention to people that should win
- Features
Class of 2012: Graduates face up to the future
Six winners shone through the trend for desolation in BD’s awards for the UK’s best diploma students
- Features
Class of 2012: Nina Shen-Poblete, University of Westminster
Knowledge Barter is a model of an educational institution based on a free-market utopia
- Features
Class of 2012: Emma Flynn Bartlett, UCL
Trash Can Utopia integrates waste and its technologies into its fabric
- Features
Class of 2012: Adam Willis, London Metropolitan University
“Culture and Cultivation” is a carefully crafted colonisation of an existing building
