Opinion
“Vyborg looks like Helsinki might after a long, drawn-out war”
“Architecture can feel like a paltry gesture in times like ours”
“Kyiv is a city where any and all public space is seized upon by parasitic capital”
“The idea of succession is not discussed enough in the design industry”
“Europe has been for the lucky few in the UK”
“After decades of Detroit ruin porn, America’s Biennale exhibition runs riot”
“Hardly any British designers have had a style as instantly recognisable as David King”
“Is architecture really as guileless as Aravena’s Biennale suggests?”
“Australia’s swimming pools exemplify the balancing act of architecture”
“Calatrava’s transit hub feels utterly scrubbed of memory and dislocated from New York”
“Why not move some of Britain’s political power northwards?”
“Could joined-up thinking finally be breaking out in Milan?”
“We could imagine nationhood as a design project”
“We are all responsible for the state of architectural education in the UK”
“New York is rapidly evolving beyond a Manhattan-centric identity”
“Pokémon GO has redrawn the map of what people find important about the world”
“Vote Leave is a vote for a theme park instead of a country”
“EU design displays the best and the worst of doing things by scrupulous consensus”
“When will a more ambitious and influential spirit return to the New York design scene?”
“Railroad stations are our contemporary architecture of democracy”
“In Milan, design is best exhibited where it’s not supposed to be”
“Designers cannot just stand by and watch as the refugee crisis unfolds”
“Treating the refugee crisis as a design problem is problematic”
