Architecture
Shrines to shopping
Jean Nouvel is leading the rush of top architects designing luxury retail outlets – and they show that beauty can have a place in the mall, says Jay Merrick
Inside Architecture
And the winning architect is... one of our most strident detractors
Friday, 8 October 2010
Jay Merrick: Royal Institute of British Architects gives its top prize to Sir David Chipperfield.
V&A brings the spirit of Bilbao to Dundee
Wednesday, 29 September 2010
Rob Sharp: Dundee might not be the first place you'd think to open a new cultural institution. Paris, yes, Venice, definitely, but not Dundee
Brut force: The Lille Art Museum extension
Monday, 27 September 2010
The Lille Art Museum has reopened with a new extension for its collection of Art Brut. The building is a radical addition, but it could have been even more daring, says Jay Merrick
Architecture and our duty to beauty
Monday, 20 September 2010
We all have a responsibility to make the best of our surroundings. Yet the political classes are reluctant to be arbiters of taste. That has to change, argues Julian Baggini
'Going back to Baghdad will be very difficult'
Monday, 6 September 2010
Jay Merrick meets Zaha Hadid, the Iraqi-born architect whose latest project takes her back to the city of her upbringing.
New Manhattan skyscraper to rival Empire State
Friday, 27 August 2010
A soaring new office building planned for midtown Manhattan has won the approval of New York City Council, despite objections from the Empire State Building's owners.
In the line of beauty: Architects and the sublime
Monday, 16 August 2010
Why don't today's architects embrace the sublime? That's the thesis of a provocative new book. Jay Merrick couldn't agree more
Towering above its rivals to win the Carbuncle Cup
Friday, 13 August 2010
It was the cutting-edge, eco-friendly building that would soar above one of London's most maligned areas as a shining symbol of its long-awaited redevelopment.
Kapoor told to take his Olympic tower back to drawing board
Wednesday, 11 August 2010
Jerome Taylor: It has been nicknamed the "hubble bubble" tower and its creators hope that the soaring structure will provide a lasting legacy for east London once the Olympic Games are over
The battle's on for vintage architecture
Tuesday, 10 August 2010
Norman Foster's latest creation is a winery outside Madrid. It puts him in direct competition with his greatest rival, Richard Rogers, says Jay Merrick
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