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The man who built Brum: A lament for the demise of John Madin's Brutalist Birmingham

The architect's buildings were supposed to leave an indelible, futuristic mark on his beloved hometown but they are now being inexorably torn down.

Revealed: Stunning new images show gold-plated, ultra-luxurious Riyadh metro station that Saudi king has ordered to be built

King Abdullah Financial District Metro Station has been designed by half-British architect Zaha Hadid

Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

Design row over peace-building centre

Architect Daniel Libeskind has been criticised by his peers for failing to reflect unique nuances of The Troubles

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Make the most of a trip to Britain's cities by getting the inside track on its buildings and landscapes from an expert

Toyo Ito Museum of Architecture, 2006—2011, Imabari-shi, Ehime, Japan

Japanese architect Toyo Ito wins 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize

Japanese architect Toyo Ito has won the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize.

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The British firm, led by Lord Foster, designed London landmarks such as the Millennium Bridge and Wembley Stadium, but also built the Palace of Peace and Reconciliation and Khan Shatyr Entertainment Center in Kazakhstan – a de facto dictatorship with a dire human rights record.

Ground Zero architect: 'Building gleaming streets for despots is morally wrong'

Daniel Libeskind urges rivals to exercise ‘cultural discipline’

Bog standard? Walham Green loos have been snapped up by café owner Luciano Lo Dico for £585,000

Hardly bog standard: the half-million pound public loo (and other converted washroom hits)

West London toilet-turned-cafe is the latest in a trend for converted conveniences

The 10-storey building called Instacon, built in 48 hours in Chandigarh

The age of instant architecture: Can a block of flats built in 48 hours really be safe?

India, China and even the US have put their faith in high-speed construction, says Chris Beanland.

The monument of Walter Scott in Glasgow's George Square

Robert Burns is the topic of heated debate in Glasgow's George Square

This week, Glasgow City Council put six eminent teams of architects through the ringer by asking them a single, highly fraught question: how would they transform George Square into a public space fit for the 21st century?

The Wangjing Soho complex is due to be complete in 2014

Plagiarism: If you build it, they will come (and copy it)

Zaha Hadid's new project in China is in danger of being completed after its own imitator

Influential modernist architect Oscar Niemeyer dies aged 104

He was a towering patriarch of modern architecture who shaped the look of contemporary Brazil

Road to redemption: How the architectural influence of the motor car transformed England

Within walking distance of some of west London's finest stretches of parkland is one of its most dismal sections of highway. On a cold, grey day in November, the vicinity of the M4 flyover at Brentford, not far from the mellow, tree-lined avenues of Gunnersbury and Osterley, is a spectacle of shuddering ugliness.

Built by Konstantin Melnikov, the house was used as a studio by his son, Viktor

Moscow's art house goes to ruin

A bitter family row is preventing an iconic piece of Russian architecture from being restored

The Sky City will be a 220-storey structure which will stand at an incredible 838m

China to build world's tallest building - in just 90 days

When completed by the end of next March, Sky City in Changsha will be the tallest skyscraper in the world, standing at 2,749ft (838m) high, over 220 floors. And remarkably, they’ve not started building it yet.

A CGI image of Pinnacle tower at 200 Bishopsgate

Will we ever reach the Pinnacle? Skyscraper boom crashes to earth

As the Shard is still yet to secure its first tenant, additions to London's skylines may now never be built

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