Oliver Wainwright   La remodelación del anexo de la National Gallery es un nuevo capítulo en la historia de un edificio que ha estado acompañado por la controversia desde sus orígenes.

The Guardian   Oliver Wainwright   La comunidad de Aranya, en el distrito de Beidaihe de la ciudad costera de Qinhuangdao, se ha transformado en los últimos años en un escaparate para los mejores arquitectos jóvenes de China. Cuenta con una colección de galerías experimental

Oliver Wainwright   ¿Sabías que, si las cosas hubieran sido diferentes, el Centro Pompidou podría haber sido un huevo? En el concurso de 1969 para el centro de arte de París (ganado finalmente por Richard Rogers y Renzo Piano), un arquitecto francés radical llamado Andr

The Guardian   Oliver Wainwright   El 23 pabellón de la Serpentine Gallery, que se inaugurará en junio, será diseñado por Minsuk Cho de la firma Mass Studies, el primer arquitecto coreano seleccionado para el prestigioso encargo. Inspirada en la arquitectura vernácula de madera de su

The Guardian   Oliver Wainwright   Su impresionante proyecto de restauración de mil millones de dólares en Shanghái es un éxito entre las personas influyentes de la ciudad. Pero no todo el mundo queda impresionado. El arquitecto habla sobre los altibajos y los muchos riesgos de constr

The Guardian   Oliver Wainwright   He almost failed architecture school. Now he’s netted the profession’s top prize, the Pritzker. Britain’s modernist master talks about the building that changed everything – and running a bar in Spain... The Guardian: ‘I faked it at the beginning!’:

Oliver Wainwright   Andrés Jaque ha completado en la periferia madrileña una obra que rompe los moldes de la arquitectura escolar y encarna una nueva pedagogía. 

The Guardian   Oliver Wainwright   Pupils asked for a building without walls that was like a garden and a spaceship. The dazzling result, housed within a living skin for insects and fungi, is one of the most inventive schools ever built. "It looks like a robot made of butter,” was one

El 14 de octubre abre sus puertas la antigua central eléctrica de Battersea en Londres, rehabilitada por Wilkinson Eyre durante casi 10 años, para albergar viviendas, oficinas y locales comerciales. Diseñada por Giles Gilbert Scott, Ba

The Guardian   Oliver Wainwright   The artist has built a space for quiet contemplation in homage to his roofer father, but the materials seem too clean-cut and corporate to fit the idea. A tolling church bell has joined the summer sounds of birdsong and tinkling fountains in Kensingt

The Guardian   Oliver Wainwright   Inspired by the kilns of Stoke-on-Trent, the Chicago artist’s Black Chapel will host bands, including his own, and also provide ‘a place of quietude’ where even the British weather is welcome. The Serpentine Gallery’s annual summer pavilion will take

The Guardian   Oliver Wainwright   Delicate, beguiling and studded with trees, the museum has landed in a Budapest park – but behind it is a controversial €1bn vision by rightwing populist leader Viktor Orbán. A great big crumpet appears to have landed in the middle of Budapest’s City

The Guardian   Oliver Wainwright   After independence in 1960, the country cast off western influences and forged a new African style full of triangular forms, rocket-shaped obelisks and rammed earth. Is this spirit now being suffocated? Our writer takes a tour of the capital. Visitin

The Guardian   Oliver Wainwright   For the people of coastal Bangladesh, the monsoon can bring untold torment – and, occasionally, unexpected joy. Every year from June to October, in the Ganges delta region where the country’s three major rivers converge, the waterways swell and river

The Guardian   Oliver Wainwright   One hundred years after Anni and Josef Albers met, their work, philosophy and funding clout have made possible a stunning hospital that is saving lives in one of the hottest places on Earth. When Anni Albers began weaving at the Bauhaus in the 1920s,

The Guardian   Oliver Wainwright   In a desperate attempt to lure employees back to their offices, companies are laying on all manner of novelty treats, from monogrammed water bottles to personalised notebooks. It is hoped that these perks might convince people to leave the house, get

The Guardian   Oliver Wainwright   Skellefteå has wooden schools, bridges, even car parks. And now it has one of the world’s tallest wooden buildings. We visit Sweden to see what a climate-conscious future looks like. Skellefteå runs on 100% renewable energy from hydropower and wind,

The Guardian   Oliver Wainwright   2021’s contenders for the Riba new architecture award range from a mesmerising Cambridge masjid to flats a London council wanted bulldozed. A mesmerising wooden mosque in Cambridge will go head to head with a Cornish footbridge and a cluster of black

The Guardian   Oliver Wainwright   Berlin’s six-year, £120m fight to fix his dysfunctional, puddle-strewn gallery. The modernist maestro had carte blanche to build a great museum. The result? A breathtaking icon hopeless for displaying art. British architect David Chipperfield relives

The Guardian   Oliver Wainwright   The MSG Sphere, Madison Square Garden’s proposed stadium will beam adverts into locals’ faces all day – but critics are questioning the planning process. As planning applications go, it’s certainly got balls. Or, to be precise, one massive ball. A gi

The Guardian   Oliver Wainwright   A robotic arm twitches above a lumpy landscape of compacted earth, pock-marked with little hollows from which pink tufts of fungus emerge. This is an “ecosystem of empathy and coexistence”, a caption tells us, the fungal flora and mechanical limb liv

The Guardian   Oliver Wainwright   After 20 years of frantic city-building, rustic China is in a death spiral. Now architects are helping to reverse the exodus – with inspirational tofu factories, rice wine distilleries and lotus tea plants. In the remote Chinese village of Caizhai, a

The Guardian   Oliver Wainwright   He built wild, magical buildings and furniture that is still thrilling today. But a new film suggests the celebrated Finn was also a domineering philanderer deeply indebted to his talented wives. Wonky lumps of misshapen, scorched bricks burst from a