Architecture

A riff on the gallery’s landmark 1956 show, Whitechapel Gallery’s latest exhibition boasts some compelling pairings but has an unconfident, sheepish quality

His design will emerge from Kensington Gardens like a low-lying cloud, with its interior intended as ‘a refuge for contemplation’

Once eclipsed by the men in her life, the architect’s supreme originality and energy are slowly being recognized

The avian playground was a manifesto for a modernism that could employ gymnastic engineering to theatrical effect – what happens with its inhabitants long gone?

A new biography of Philip Johnson reveals the contradictions and ambiguities of the world’s first ‘starchitect’

A swathe of renovations and extensions across the UK capital suggests an appetite for a different kind of architecture

Twitter users have been quick to think of alternative nicknames, including ‘the cotton bud’ and ‘the tadpole’

Designed by Beijing-based practice, OPEN Architecture, UCCA Dune burrows beneath the sand dunes in the coastal resort of Beidaihe

How to handle ‘refugee heritage’ from an architectural perspective

Along with other prominent figures, the British architect has stepped down from Neom’s advisory board following Jamal Khashoggi’s death

A new show at London’s Wellcome Collection charts the influence manmade structures have had on health and wellbeing

An homage to the architect who, with his partner Denise Scott Brown, developed the source code for postmodernism

In the tanks of a Victorian bathhouse, the Turner Prize-winning Assemble have created a contemporary art gallery at Goldsmiths, London

The legendary Tokyo-based architect reflects on his first UK building, which opens to the public on Saturday

If the new V&A is Dundee’s public face to the world, it underscores the motto of the city’s famous resident: ‘think global act local’

Born in Kandy, Minnette de Silva was the first Asian female architect to be registered with RIBA

Ahead of his first solo in the UK, why the late California-based sculptor’s material sensibility and countercultural ideals deserve reappraisal

A house that looks like a powerstation and a ‘grotesque’ hotel extension are in the running for architects’s least favourite prize

For the first show at S1 Artspace's new home in the Brutalist housing estate, two photographers who documented it in the 1960s and ’80s

Alongside a centuries-old collection of Old Masters, Delftware and Chinoiserie, the Devonshires continue to commission contemporary art