Fever Scout: the wearable thermometer for kids that's like a digital Mary...
A Silicon Valley company has invented a smart thermometer that continuously streams your child’s temperature to your smartphone – and it’s just the latest step in the billion-dollar ‘self-care’...
View Article1 Undershaft, the tallest skyscraper in the City of London, revealed
Architect Eric Parry unveils plans for tallest skyscraper in the City – but the orgy of billion-pound towers doesn’t stop there“I wanted to do something calm,” says the architect Eric Parry, who on...
View ArticleIs RIBA a racist, sexist old boys’ club?
Following allegations of institutional racism, we ask architects whether the Royal Institute of British Architects really is an outmoded organisation with values from a bygone ageThe Royal Institute of...
View ArticleBye bye Zaha, hello fried egg! New designs unveiled for Tokyo Olympic stadium
Zaha Hadid’s Tokyo 2020 stadium was declared a national joke then scrapped. Now, its proposed replacements have been revealed – and they look like an egg and a stack of saucersIt was compared to...
View Article'This is a load of cobblers!' Boris Johnson grilled over garden bridge
Secret meetings, unconventional procurement and £10,000 trips to San Francisco at the taxpayers’ expense … more details emerge about the mayor’s role in London’s proposed garden bridge“This whole thing...
View ArticleA wholesale power grab: how the UK government is handing housing over to...
The new housing and planning bill is a raft of dangerous measures that will increase inequality and solely benefit the private sectorIn any sane universe, something called the Housing and Planning Bill...
View ArticleThe 'wearable dwelling' – a coat for refugees that turns into a tent
Royal College of Art students have designed a multipurpose garment for refugees, made from the insulated material used by marathon runnersDesign students have created a coat for refugees that can be...
View ArticleGrowing pains: how will London house 1.5 million more people by 2030?
City planning needs a new culture of transparency to keep up with shifting development projects, says an independent report – and certainly more than soggy notices strapped to lamp-postsWalking past a...
View ArticleSpain's concrete castle: a case of accidental genius?
The Frankenstein-like new face of Matrera fortress has upset heritage watchdogs, but restores the clout its Moorish creators originally intended. As with other famous ‘botches’, might detractors learn...
View ArticleAre Shoreditch skyscrapers a London tower too far, even for Boris Johnson?
The mega Bishopsgate Goodsyard development is opposed by two councils and the mayor’s own advisers – its fate now depends on his one-man imperial courtFor the first time in Boris Johnson’s ignominious...
View ArticleWhy build the garden bridge when we could plant trees on Blackfriars?
Rather than spending £175m on Thomas Heatherwick and Joanna Lumley’s floating park, architects Allies and Morrison suggest we try a cheap, cheerful and wholly supportable alternativeWhen is a garden...
View ArticleEU bureaucrats want your tea and toast. Arm yourself with a Dyson
The Brexit war cry has been bellowed from a flimsy stage set of Britishness. Leaving the EU won’t miraculously transport us back to 1950s domesticityThey’re coming for our kettles and they’ve got their...
View ArticleLife in Technicolor: 11 trippy visions of the future by student architects
From Game of Thrones-inspired castle estates to spiralling pink robo-slides, this year’s graduate architecture shows offer a window to escapist fantasy landsArchitects might be known for wearing black,...
View ArticleBikes, buses and bridges: Boris Johnson’s biggest design blunders
As he floats the idea of a 22-mile long bridge across the channel, behold Boris’s most public design disasters, from Thomas Heatherwick’s mobile sweatbox to an Olympic white elephantContinue reading...
View ArticleKanye West's Ikea line should beat Justin Timberlake's homeware
‘Everything needs to be architected,’ the rapper once said – and now he’s in talks with Ikea, where his minimalist aesthetics could prove a good fitAlongside the trusty Billy bookcase and the Dombås...
View ArticleOn your marks: is Rio's Olympic architecture a success or failure?
After the ‘worst ever’ preparations, how are the park, arena and athletes’ village holding up? And are the designs for the mascots, torch and kits medal-worthy? The collapsed sailing ramp has been...
View ArticleCarbuncle Cup 2016: gong for UK's ugliest building up for grabs
From psychedelic chequerboards to sci-fi hulks, which of these magnificent monstrosities is deserving of architecture’s most ignoble accolade?It’s the one award no architect wants to win, the trophy...
View ArticleSweatbox heaven: welcome to the sauna and steam of your dreams
From steamrooms suspended under remote Czech bridges to the Swedish robot sauna straight out of Star Wars, the spa experience is getting a guerilla makeoverAn awkward grey creature stands on the edge...
View ArticlePreserving historical buildings: the most sustainable thing is not to build...
Making heritage buildings sustainable is just as important as preserving their history – and they can offer energy-efficiency lessons of their own After grinding grain since 1897, Sydney’s Crago Flour...
View ArticleArchitectural landscape awards: healing gardens, penguin viewing areas and...
The Australian Institute of Landscape Architects recently handed out their trophies for landscape architecture projects at the National Landscape Architecture Awards.From urban hospital gardens to...
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