‘We didn’t think they’d use the animals as trampolines’ – Assemble unleash squidgy mayhem
The Turner prize-winning collective have brought the spirit of Lina Bo Bardi to Nottingham, thrilling kids with the shamefully neglected Brazilian architect’s visions of play
December 2019
Artists assemble! How collectives took over the art world
They’re principled, they’re powerful and they make the art world jumpy. As the Turner prize is split four ways, we look at how collectives are shaking things up
September 2019
Best culture of the 21st century
The best architecture of the 21st century
A flying roof, a bamboo airport, a marooned galleon and a park in the sky … continuing our series, we pick the 25 greatest builds of the new age
July 2019
'Five years to do 10 chuffing houses!' – meet the guerrilla gardeners of Granby
Why is there a full-size tree inside this once-abandoned Liverpool terrace? Step inside Granby Winter Garden, the latest transformation from Turner prize winning architects Assemble
December 2018
Best culture 2018
Top 10 architecture of 2018
A building made of boulders, Battersea’s blazing miracle, the rugged return of Mackintosh – and recognition at last for a Vegas visionary
November 2018
Cities on Instagram
Snapping point: how the world’s leading architects fell under the Instagram spell
The desire to share on Instagram is inspiring exciting new buildings around the world, but are these spectacular selfie sets what cities really need?
September 2018
Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art; South London Gallery – review
Two Victorian civic buildings have been given new leases of life as art galleries – largely by leaving things be
August 2018
Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art review – a glowing DIY labyrinth
Autumn arts preview 2018
Dreamers and disrupters: the best art and architecture of autumn 2018
January 2016
Self-build pioneers: the estate pointing the friendly way out of a housing crisis
Grand Designs it isn’t, but the singular vision of architect Walter Segal lives on in Lewisham – and the families who built their own homes are inspiring a future generation in search of affordable housing in Britain
December 2015
Best culture 2015
Oliver Wainwright's top 10 architecture of 2015
Assemble and Granby Four Streets community land trust offer a better model for living
Observer critics' review of 2015
Rowan Moore: the best architecture of 2015
Turner prize winner Assemble’s debt to William Morris
Turner prize winners Assemble: 'Art? We're more interested in plumbing'
Power to the people! Assemble win the Turner prize by ignoring the art market
November 2015
Assemble: the unfashionable art of making a difference
The young members of the London collective have created a striking range of projects that resolutely value people not profits
September 2015
Meet the Turner prize shortlist, from the musician to the mind-reader
Modernist estates: what's it like to live on one?
August 2015
The quiet revolution in British housing
Architects are fighting back. After their cause was hampered by the atrocities of the 60s and 70s, followed by the dire ‘traditional’ building of the Thatcher era, imaginative and sustainable housing is in the ascendant