Oliver Wainwright is the Guardian's architecture and design critic
July 2024
‘You travel five million years a metre’: inside the Natural History Museum’s mind-boggling new garden
Plastic-bottle seats and wooden pools: can Paris deliver the leanest, greenest Olympics yet?
My bricklayer’s gone viral! Why construction workers are the new social media stars
Barbie: The Exhibition review – the wonder doll’s evolution, from Gehry homes to ‘gay Ken’
June 2024
Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
Starmer says he would not let SNP hold new independence referendum or lift veto on gender recognition bill – as it happened
The broken years: Tory Britain 2010-24
How a disastrous Tory policy blew up the housing market
Change? If only. Labour’s housing plans are built on flimsy foundations, fantasies and fudge
Oliver Wainwright
‘A show you want to pick up and fondle’: Assemble electrify the RA’s Summer Exhibition
‘Public vandalism’: M&S wants to flatten its art deco flagship store – here are six alternative options
‘I plumbed in our bath – and it works!’ The DIY diehards who built 36 affordable homes from scratch
May 2024
‘Our parents did all the hard work. We don’t have to’: China’s seaside haven for the ‘lying flat’ generation
Romans in togas, shepherds in saunas and the Bridgerton garden in bloom … my wild day at Chelsea flower show
How the world could have looked: the most spectacular buildings that were never made
‘An incredible phallic landmark!’ The grain silo gallery, a gift from the trillion dollar man
‘We’ve got drone swarms, dirty bombs, radar-jamming’: the fake town where America practises for war
Tunnels, treehouses and tensegrity towers: landmarks in protest architecture, from UCLA to Hong Kong
A 007 paradise – or lads holiday in Marbella? Inside Aston Martin’s lavish Miami penthouses
April 2024
‘One of the most racist things I’ve ever seen’: how RIBA is decolonising its HQ
The Royal Institute of British Architects has been taking stock of the disturbingly imperial decoration of its palatial home – with a new show telling a larger, more unsettling story
‘It should feel like an extension of the living room’: radical study centre is named best building in Europe
A ‘non-hierarchical’ university space that can be continually altered or even moved has won the EU’s biennial prize for contemporary architecture
‘This one’s like a castle!’ The hunt for the world’s wildest, daftest and most beautiful hedges
They can swallow road signs and trigger lethal neighbour feuds. From the suburbs of Britain to the deserts of Arizona, we explore a show celebrating glorious green borders
