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Grenfell inquiry has shone a light on architecture profession’s flaws

Letters: Kerr Robertson and Catherine Brownell on the structural defects in the training and fees of architects

The Guardian - UK

The City of London’s tallest skyscraper could look like a toilet seat in the sky – and that’s not even the worst thing about it

As more and more giant towers are squeezed in by developers, open spaces and natural light are becoming things of the past, says Guardian architecture critic Oliver Wainwright

The Guardian - UK

Attacked by an ice-cream scoop? The story of London’s ‘gouged’ building

In a rare instance of love-thy-neighbour design, a new building enables people to enjoy the view of a nearby church window. No wonder it’s been stopping passersby in their tracks

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‘I didn’t feel like I was supporting a regime’: architect David Chipperfield on working for China

His stunning $1bn restoration project in Shanghai is a hit with the city’s influencers. But not everyone is impressed. The revered architect talks about the highs, lows and many risks of building for China

The Guardian - UK

Best designs and designers of 2023: ‘A chunk of glossy sexiness’

From 3D-printed headphones to a museum dedicated to crabs, our panel of experts pick the designs and designers of the year

The Guardian - UK

Love them or hate them, a UK government decision on e-scooters is well overdue

Despite local trials being cut short for safety concerns, regulation has been kicked down the road, says Oliver Wainwright, the Guardian’s architecture and design critic

The Guardian - UK

The housing quality crisis is built on 13 years of Tory deregulation

Letters: Readers respond to an article by Oliver Wainwright about the state of new-build properties in the UK

The Guardian - UK

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‘War is back. People want to stock up’: inside Europe’s biggest arms fair

Military spending is at an all-time high – and from laser-guided drones to dog armour, there is no shortage of hardware. Our writer visits the vast ‘supermarket of death’ that is London’s DSEI shop floor

The Guardian - UK

The ultimate eco building – made of salt, sunflowers and recycled urine

Its door handles are made of salt. Its walls are made of sunflowers. Its furniture is made of Japanese knotweed. And it was stained with dyes made from filtered urine. Is this recycling marvel in southern France the future of architecture?

The Guardian - UK

How solar farms took over the California desert: ‘An oasis has become a dead sea’

Residents feel trapped and choked by dust, while experts warn environmental damage is ‘solving one problem by creating others’

The Guardian - US

Rainbow fur, £10,000 ballgowns and hounds in hats: inside LA’s canine couture show

At ‘master pet couturier’ Anthony Rubio’s fashion show, humans take a back seat as all eyes are on the pampered pooches dressed to kill

The Guardian - UK

‘A gas-guzzling villain’s lair’: welcome to LA’s grotesque new high-rise

Inspired by Yeats and Wagner, the (W)rapper tower was meant to reawaken the city skyline. But is this monstrous erection just a monument to its designer’s ego?

The Guardian - UK

Hey budtender, take me to the Ganja Giggle Garden! A pot-crawl round LA’s boutique cannabis stores

They look like cosmic chapels, luxury spas and uber-cool art galleries. One even boasts a 250-year-old ceiling from a Burmese monastery. Our writer joins the ‘cannaseurs’ in a bong-filled world that could be the future of Britain

The Guardian - UK

You can live a healthier, happier life in a 15-minute city

Letters: Readers respond to an article by Oliver Wainwright on why the concept has got rightwing MPs worried

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In praise of the ‘15-minute city’ – the mundane planning theory terrifying conspiracists

The frightening prospect of greener, people-friendly streets has sent the online right – and Tory MPs – into a tailspin, says Guardian architecture critic Oliver Wainwright

The Guardian - UK

‘Our own little Vatican’: inside the biggest Catholic parish church in North America

There used to be more cows than people in Visalia, but a new 3,000-seat megachurch has brought Vegas kitsch to the worshippers of California’s Central Valley

The Guardian - UK

‘Like eating one of Mario’s magic mushrooms’: inside California’s new Super Nintendo World

Bringing the iconic video games into reality, Super Nintendo World is a spectacular feat of design that will overload your senses faster than it empties your wallet

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‘An unfinished Frankenstein’s monster’: the disastrous new Orange County Museum of Art

With ambitiously fractured form, this $94m gallery is open to visitors – if they can find their way inside – but its wonkily assembled parts are a long way from finished

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‘As welcoming as the shadow under a tree’: the new home for the man who built Houston

The endowment founded by developer Jesse Jones – who did much to shape the modern Texas city – has a bold, innovative new HQ based on that classic southern space – the porch

The Guardian - UK

What happened to the cockney riviera? The botched regeneration of brutalist utopia Thamesmead

The waterside new town on the outskirts of London was marvelled at in the 60s and used as the setting for A Clockwork Orange. But as decades passed it fell into neglect and now the developers are moving in

The Guardian - UK

‘Why not just go the full Vegas?’ The crass, ad-laden reinvention of central London

There’s a new theatre, four live venues, ‘walk-in’ billboards, and a hotel for Hollywood A-listers with subwoofers en suite. So why is this West End development about as exciting as a 1980s business park?

The Guardian - UK

‘If the Ringway goes, I’m leaving’ – the fight to save Birmingham’s brutiful masterpieces

When Clint Eastwood posed by the glorious Ringway in the 1960s, the city boasted superb buildings aplenty. As yet more face the wrecking ball, we meet the people hitting back

The Guardian - UK

Wednesday briefing: How four executions could embolden Myanmar’s resistance

In today’s newsletter: As the junta gets ever more brutal, Gen Z protesters are forming a patchwork militia. Burmese journalist Aung Naing Soe on why the executions could signal a new phase in the struggle for democracy

The Guardian - UK

‘The council tenants weren’t going to be allowed back’: how Britain’s ‘ugliest building’ was gentrified

The east London brutalist landmark Balfron Tower was conceived as the perfect neighbourhood in the sky by its Marxist architect. Now its flats are being sold as ‘trophy properties’

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s been a disaster’: how Boris Johnson’s docklands business hub turned into a ghost town

The former mayor touted the £1.7bn London development as a vibrant beacon for Asian companies. Now there isn’t a single tenant – though the dystopian setting is attracting film crews

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