Architecture

Turning the tide: How to rescue a seaside resort

Simon Tait meets architect with big plans to revive fortunes of Margate.

Inside Architecture

Another day, another drubbing for Olympics architect Hadid

Thursday, 7 April 2011

Zaha Hadid's reputation for groundbreaking architecture holds little sway in small-town America, with her $159m (£97m) design for a new civic centre in California hanging in the balance after being derided as looking like a "squid" and a "monster".

The death of architecture

Monday, 4 April 2011

Jay Merrick: Unless you're a 'starchitect', chances are you'll end up creating mediocre glass-clad hangars.

Switzerland's 'starchitect' to build in Britain

Monday, 4 April 2011

The enigmatic Swiss architect Peter Zumthor, whose designs sit in unexpected corners of the world – such as remote mountain tops and in fields – is to work in Britain for the first time. He will construct the Serpentine Gallery's temporary pavilion in London this year.

Jay Merrick: Serpentine commission is a real coup for gallery

Monday, 4 April 2011

A handful of living architects – notably Frank Gehry, Oscar Niemeyer and Alvaro Siza – can be described as unique. The word seems crude when applied to Peter Zumthor. With him we are, to borrow a Van Morrison album title, into the mystic.

UK architect wins contest for V&A extension

Tuesday, 29 March 2011

British architect Amanda Levete has beaten more than 110 architectural firms to build an extension to the V&A on London's Exhibition Road. It followed an international competition to create a new entrance and a mixed-use courtyard on the museum's last remaining undeveloped site.

The workshop that changed the world

Wednesday, 23 March 2011

The room measures 6m by 5m, and could almost be a hyper-quaint visualisation from an animatronic version of a Dickens novel starring an orphaned fish with Eddie Murphy’s voice. And yet it was in this attic workshop - restored and open to the public from today at London’s Science Museum - that James Watt, inventor of the modern steam engine, presided over the industrial revolution.

The eccentric architecture of death

Wednesday, 23 March 2011

The restoration of Sir Richard Burton’s tomb may be a relatively small event – but it’s a very important one, says Jay Merrick

Architects' Sketchbooks: Back to the drawing board

Wednesday, 9 March 2011

An intriguing new book delves into the notepads of leading architects to show the sketchy origins of some truly monumental buildings

Foster to design £1.2bn arts centre

Saturday, 5 March 2011

Norman Foster, the acclaimed British architect, has won the right to design Hong Kong's new $2.8bn (£1.2bn) West Kowloon cultural hub with a pitch to transform a reclaimed coastal strip into a lush waterfront park with Western and Chinese opera houses, concert halls, a museum and arts schools.