Stories by Amy Frearson
Herzog & de Meuron presents an alternative to “pompous and unsustainable” Expo pavilions
Google reveals new site for Mountain View headquarters by BIG and Heatherwick
Frida Escobedo creates an Aztec-inspired installation in the V&A courtyard
Zaha Hadid adds a shimmery steel tunnel to an Oxford University college
Gabled extension by BKK Architects borrows the form of a doll’s house
Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley to curate Istanbul Design Biennial 2016
Jeremie Maret builds a “transparent tiny skyscraper” on a Berlin industrial estate
Plan Bureau imagines a twin-peaked wooden house in the mountains
Herzog & de Meuron’s Bordeaux Stadium is framed by a forest of slender columns
Glaze pavilion by Cousins & Cousins designed to resemble a Venetian glass sweet
MAD to drape new skin over a house “like a piece of cloth” to transform it into a nursery
Timber-clad pavilions by Barkow Leibinger form a campus for a computing thinktank
Sunflower House comprises ten cubes pointed in different directions
Graux & Baeyens uses curved walls to convert a factory loft into a family home
SANAA triumphs in hotly contested Sydney Modern gallery competition
Architects underestimate “potentially sinister” smart-home technologies says Rem Koolhaas
Carmody Groarke’s new White Cube gallery is an angular timber and plastic pavilion
Aslak Haanshuus transforms two Norwegian log cabins into a cross-shaped house
Massachusetts home by Anmahian Winton features a facade of ipe wood and zinc
Hanazono Kindergarten designed to endure typhoons and offer outdoor play spaces
Allies and Morrison and O’Donnell & Tuomey win contest for Olympic Park cultural campus
Zaha Hadid completes pebble-shaped Wangjing Soho towers in Beijing