All articles by Oliver Wainwright – Page 9
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NewsNord offers shingle life
Nord has completed the second house in Alain de Botton’s holiday home initiative, Living Architecture, on the beach in Dungeness, Kent.
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Building StudyCaruso St John’s renovation plans for Tate Britain, London
An aversion to iconic swagger and an unwavering attention to detail will guide the architect’s endeavours to make Tate Britain less of a poor relation to its Bankside cousin
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Building StudyFirst look: Connectivity underpins 5th Studio’s Lea Valley vision
5th Studio has unveiled plans for a “Fatwalk” to connect the Olympic Park with the Thames, the primary project in realising the Lea River Park
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BlogsPolitics of the pop-up
A flood of temporary projects have been popping-up across our cities’ vacant sites, but who is behind them and what do they mean?
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Building StudyRainham: Design for London’s projects near fruition
This east London outpost is home to a projects by architects including Alison Brooks, East and Maccreanor Lavington
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Building StudyFirst look: DRDH Architects raises the roof for Baptist church in Oklahoma
DRDH Architects has unveiled plans for a Baptist church in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The £1.2 million project, which will house a congregation of around 300, sits in a rolling 40ha site on the edge of the city
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NewsHalliday Clark distills plans for new brewery
Work on a new brewery near Barnsley by West Yorkshire practice Halliday Clark Architects will begin next spring.
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Building StudyFaustino Winery, Spain, by Foster & Partners
Winemakers in northern Spain hope this futuristic new bodega will put the Ribera del Duero region on the world stage.
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FeaturesYoung Architect of the Year 2010: Serie Architects
Global player Serie takes the 2010 award for emerging talent
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Building StudyOne New Change, London, by Jean Nouvel
While the form of Jean Nouvel’s One New Change is designed to respect views of St Paul’s Cathedral, the mixed-use scheme has an exotic geometry that contrasts with its ’polite’ neighbours
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ReviewJames Turrell
James Turrell’s hippyish explorations of light sit rather uncomfortably in the Gagosian.
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Building StudyEvelyn 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
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MultimediaBD video exclusive: Sou Fujimoto on his exhibition design for the Barbican Gallery
In a BD exclusive, Sou Fujimoto explains his design for the Future Beauty exhibition at the Barbican Gallery, reviewed by Oliver Wainwright
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NewsSchool heads’ fury over Browne report
Only the rich will be able to afford to study architecture, Schosa warns government
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FeaturesRussian design is all in the detail: Buromoscow
Characterised by an obsessive attention to detail and a rigorous research-driven agenda, Buromoscow is affecting change through its stealthy approach.
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FeaturesThe Moscow architect unafraid to make waves: Boris Bernaskoni
In the first of a series of profiles on Moscow’s new wave of young architects, we speak to Boris Bernaskoni, whose radical office is working across scales from dachas to urban masterplans, driven by an energetic political agenda.
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Building StudyMoscow School of Management by Adjaye Associates
David Adjaye has cross-fertilised 1920s Russian Suprematism with his own African heritage to create the gargantuan Moscow School of Managment in Skolkovo
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ReviewJohn Pawson: Plain Space
A retrospective at the Design Museum offers a glimpse of more opulent times. But is Pawson’s minimalism all too much now?
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Building StudyRavensbourne College, Greenwich, by Foreign Office Architects
FOA’s new building for Ravensbourne College makes bold predictions about how the next generation of students will be taught
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FeaturesRomania shines at the Venice biennale
The Giardini’s other pavilions fell somewhere along usual spectrum between artistic whimsy and corporate sales pitch, the most successful standing out for the powerful execution of a single idea.