Like Spurs' current team, the club's proposed stadium project risks being less than the sum of its parts. A more inspiring vision is needed
Read full article...Stepping inside the Olympic Stadium is “a Neil Armstrong” moment for our architecture critic. It’s a triumph of project management — but he wonders if it will be more than the sum of its parts
Brash monuments to luxury will grab the attention - but this year, the capital’s most innovative new building projects will find room for goats and marrows
As an emblem of the change of decade, there is nothing more deliciously poignant than yesterday's opening of the $4 billion, 818-metre latest tallest building in the world, the Burj Dubai
A new London office building by Renzo Piano shows that architects are increasingly keen to raid the paintbox
The strangest thing about the Great Tower Craze of the Noughties is that almost no towers got built
What kind of city does Boris want? Would it be a thrusting metropolis of the 21st century with glass pinnacles reaching for the sky, or would it be a London reflecting the education of our classicist Mayor, with Georgian proportions and imperial colonnades?
Most sports stadiums are in dusty edge-of-town locations where designers don’t have to worry too much about the effects of their behemoths on their surroundings.
What do you want from your streets? Clean-liness, safety and good lighting, and the ability to go where you want and do what you want
The world's most glamorous architect has just unveiled a futuristic new museum in Rome - and her Olympic Aquatics Centre is taking shape. They may be extravagant, but there is still value in thinking big
Fashion designers are setting their sights beyond the catwalk as more are drawing their own blueprints for stores and offices such as Burberry’s HQ
The conversion of Arsenal's former ground isn't quite the surprising landmark it could have been - but it has achieved the rare feat of creating a modern garden square
There is a mismatch between the hyperbole surrounding Nine Elms and the document intended to guide its growth.
Mayors and towers go together like Richard and Judy, or The X Factor's excruciating twins, John and Edward. They are mutually reinforcing, each one helping the other to look and feel good
It's been another mixed week for Lord Rogers. His practice has won the Stirling Prize for the Maggie's cancer care centre in Hammersmith. At the same time his lawyers are chasing £2 million of fees they say he is still owed by developers Qatari Diar following the abandonment of the Rogers-designed redevelopment of Chelsea Barracks.
The Tories want to change how the huge sums raised are handed out — and plenty of projects need support
After 20 years with her late husband Jan Kaplicky’s Future Systems, Amanda Levete has unveiled her first big solo project just off Oxford Street — and it has all of her old partnership’s vision and elegance
The urban beach on the bank of the Seine has proved to be a hit with Parisians. But would it work as well in east London?
There's something about horses in cities. They command space. They change the tempo. They demand respect
It's enough to restore your faith in democracy: an elected councillor of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea dares to tell Historic Royal Palaces, and behind them the royal family, the truth.
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