Sometimes structural elements come to define an entire period and attitude to architecture. The Romans set their own architecture against its Greek precedents by deploying
To coincide with the Salone del Mobile, the University of Milan was the setting for Mutant Architecture, an exhibition pairing nine designers and architects with
Zaha Hadid Architects’ opera house in Guangzhou is the product of a supreme technological effort. The practice explains the brainpower and computing prowess needed to
The Canton Tower, a 610m-high TV tower by Dutch practice Information Based Architecture (IBA), has opened in Guangzhou, China. Sitting directly across the Pearl river
It’s a building inside a building,” says Odile Decq, describing the MACRO contemporary art museum in Rome. Recently opened, the building is an insertion into
This year’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, by French architect Jean Nouvel, was unveiled yesterday in London’s Hyde Park. By now the formula should be familiar; an
The collected works of Herbert Muschamp, the last heavyweight architecture critic, exhilarate Justin McGuirk In 1985, the architecture critic of the Village Voice, Michael Sorkin,
