All articles by Oliver Wainwright – Page 2
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FeaturesClass of 2012: Luke Snow, De Montfort University
Towards a Carbon-Negative Britain is an alternative vision of a renewable energy plant
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FeaturesClass of 2012: Nina Shen-Poblete, University of Westminster
Knowledge Barter is a model of an educational institution based on a free-market utopia
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FeaturesClass of 2012: Calum Paterson, Robert Gordon University
Cultural Fishing Centre is a transition point between a new development and existing industrial spaces in Peterhead, Scotland
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NewsBD’s photo gallery of Olympic pavilions
Serie Architects, Team Populous and Pernilla & Asif have completed structures
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Building StudyHaus H27D apartments by Kraus Schönberg Architects
The architect’s apartment building in Constance, Germany, shows an attention to material detail in keeping with its medieval neighbours
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Building StudyPoundbury houses at St John’s Way by Francis Roberts Architects
Francis Roberts’ Poundbury houses demonstrate a sturdy arts and crafts individualism but are undermined by the duchy’s lack of attention to material detail
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Building StudyBlankenberge Public Library by Sergison Bates Architects
Sergison Bates’ scheme for a new public library in Blankenberge, Belgium, is a lesson in how bring redundant buildings back to life
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OpinionBoyle’s bucolic Olympic vision channels ghosts of the former site
This Lord of the Rings version of Englishness is strangely similar to what lay there before
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OpinionThe heart of Argent's King's Cross development is missing its beat
The new Granary Square is a barren expanse in desperate need of occupation - if the private security guards allow it
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Building StudyThe Photographers' Gallery by O'Donnell & Tuomey
O’Donnell & Tuomey’s warehouse conversion for the Photographers’ Gallery opens up a series of complex spaces and multiple skins, against a dramatic inner London streetscape
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Building StudyFirst Look: Berkhamsted house by Featherstone Young Architects
Home is composed of two wings, each bounded by heavy flank walls of local brick
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Building StudyKensington Palace refurbishment by John Simpson and Todd Longstaffe-Gowan
A project to liberate long-concealed areas of Kensington Palace has successfully transformed its outside spaces. However, the interior renovations are underwhelming
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Building StudyBridport House, east London, by Karakusevic Carson Architects
The first social housing block in Hackney for 45 years, Karakusevic Carson’s Bridport House is a rallying cry to get boroughs building
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ReviewMaking City: 5th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam
This citymakers’ biennale is a confused muddle of municipal boosterism and lacklustre pop-up projects
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Building StudyCommunity in a Cube, Middlehaven, by Fat Architects
Will Alsop’s psychedelic rethink of Middlesbrough’s docklands died away in the cold light of austerity, leaving Fat’s idiosyncratic new apartment building very much out on its own
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TechnicalVictory House, London by Ben Adams Architects
Ben Adams Architects has transformed an anonymous office building at the northern end of Tottenham Court Road with a series of subtle interventions.
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Building StudyFirst Look: 16 Henrietta Street, Dublin by Ryan W Kennihan Architects
Ryan W Kennihan Architects has revealed images of plans for the end of the historic Henrietta street in Dublin, filling in the “missing tooth” left by the demolition of one half of a four-bay Georgian house in the 1950s.
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FeaturesFirst look: Apartment building in Binningen, Basel, by Lütjens Padmanabhan
The architect has won planning permission for a building containing three flats in a suburb of Basel
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TechnicalHalley VI Antarctic Research Station by Hugh Broughton Architects
Halley VI Antarctic Research Station by Hugh Broughton Architects The Halley VI station comprises eight linked modules. Architect Hugh Broughton Architects with AecomLocation Brunt Ice Shelf, AntarcticCompleted March 2012Few sites can be as inhospitable as the Antarctic, where temperatures drop to -56°C, winds exceed 100mph and ...
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FeaturesFirst look: Special educational needs school in Bredinghurst, Southwark, by Wright & Wright
This £9.5 million school in south London is scheduled for completion in 2013