A personal review of design creations
Open Storage, Open Secrets: Herzog & de Meuron Let Hong Kong Into the Workshop
The firm that built M+ hands over its sketchbooks. Discretion, it turns out, was never the point.
The Sagrada Família Was Never Waiting on Gaudí
Everyone blames the delay on a dead genius. The real culprit is a business model and it is one every self-funded museum should study.
Tashkent Just Got Its Concrete Crown
Uzbekistan has just become the first country in Central Asia to see its twentieth-century architecture recognised by UNESCO, and Tashkent's modernist landmarks are now, officially, the youngest buildings on the World Heritage List.
Concrete Independence
Concrete convictions: how seven newly independent nations built their identity in glass and reinforced concrete — and why MoMA's latest show could not have landed at a more Instagram-ready moment.
The Egg That Eats Itself
How OMA's new mushroom pavilion at Casa Wabi is turning fungi into architecture, community, and lunch.
Advent 2025: St Peter Church by Le Corbusier
To close this little Advent pilgrimage I wanted a Le Corbusier landmark— but not the familiar hilltop chapel at Ronchamp. Instead one in a former mining town whose industrial grit somehow suits his concrete poetry.
Stop Four: Firminy, France.
Advent 2025: The Holy Redeemer
Over fifteen years in the making, this church is completely integrated in the transformation process of a neighbourhood of 670 homes.
Third stop: San Cristobal de la Laguna, Spain.
Advent 2025: San Giacomo Apostolo
#Advent2025: With its light and organic structure, this church contrasts with other religious buildings in the same city.
Second stop: Ferrara, Italy.
Advent 2025: St Xavier’s Oratory
This Advent I am starting a tiny ritual of my own: four Sundays, four churches with architecture that caught my eye. Think of it as a short pilgrimage from the sofa — no architectural degree required, only a soft spot for good timber or a striking silhouette.
First stop: Umphang, Thailand.
Exploring Solar Modernism
At this year’s 19th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Uzbekistan Pavilion Unveils A Matter of Radiance at Venice Architecture Biennale.