The CO2-absorbing building made from old sinks, windscreens, and toilets: Ghent's £17m design museum is a green marvel.
Museums often try to reflect the world around them, but rarely are they built so literally from their surroundings as…
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Architecture
Starchitects go home': what's really behind Albania's incredible building boom?
Last autumn, I was sitting with a well-known architect in New York when their phone kept buzzing. They finally checked…
The defacement of Washington, D.C.: from a giant arch to a nuclear-proof bunker, Trump's legacy-building display of excess is an architectural disaster.
If the US president were a developer, you might expect some sprucing up of the capital—a few buildings renovated, maybe…
Reclaiming the streets: the architects taking back Europe’s car-dominated spaces
As Joni Mitchell once put it, many city planners around the world have “paved paradise and put up a parking…
A climate-saving miracle – or a €240 million vanity project that won't stand the test of time? The rocks are about to arrive at Rotterdam's docks.
“It looks like something Shrek would throw up,” sniffed one online commentator, unflatteringly comparing Rotterdam ROCKS! — the recently unveiled…
A Ruhr treat: can a giant pigeon and a pink basketball breathe new life into Germany's struggling industrial heartland?
After Germany’s Ruhr region—the third-largest urban area in Western Europe—was heavily bombed during World War II, planners came up with…
Like a Klingon prison": inside Barack Obama's bold, nearly windowless, $850 million presidential library.
The Egyptians had their pyramids. The Anglo-Saxons had their burial mounds. And Americans have their presidential libraries—the main difference being…
An environmental outrage: Norman Foster's massive new skyscraper is an insult to the New York skyline.
Amid the slender needles and elegant spires of the Manhattan skyline, a mountainous lump has risen into view. It climbs…
How Jean Nouvel transformed a historic Parisian department store into a museum that rivals the Louvre.
No matter what happens, Jean Nouvel will always have Paris. Since the early 1980s, the City of Light has been…
Terry Farrell, the unconventional architect behind the MI6 building, has passed away at the age of 87.
Sir Terry Farrell, the innovative architect and planner known for his bold “hi-tech” designs such as London’s MI6 headquarters, has…