Architecture

Sir Christopher Wren designed a tower for Westminster Abbey topped with a 12-sided spire. Now the abbey's dean has invited the public to comment on proposals to build a corona on the 1,000-year-old church

Westminster Abbey to get its crowning glory, at last

£10m corona will realise Wren's vision

Inside Architecture

'Rubble Club' helps architects pick up the pieces

Monday, 15 June 2009

Society set up to offer support to designers whose work has been demolished

Renzo Piano: The world's finest architect

Tuesday, 19 May 2009

The spectacular new wing of Chicago's Art Institute has finally been unveiled. Jay Merrick was there

Architects' Prince Charles boycott fizzles out

Wednesday, 13 May 2009

There were no empty seats in the Royal Institute of British Architects auditorium last night as a planned boycott of Prince Charles' speech faded away.

Top ten religious buildings in the United Kingdom

Tuesday, 12 May 2009

The UK’s long tradition of religious buildings has been a magnet for tourists since the Vikings began raiding monasteries in the 790s.

Ghost town: London's 'lost' buildings

Tuesday, 5 May 2009

Cautious planners and the recession have shattered architects' dreams of a new London, writes Jay Merrick, who imagines what London might have looked like

Glasgow's big 'Mac' in architectural feeding frenzy

Thursday, 30 April 2009

More than 9,000 architectural practices and design obsessives have expressed interest in creating a new students' building opposite the iconic Glasgow School of Art, a Grade I-listed building.

Foster turns his hand to timeshare luxury yacht

Thursday, 30 April 2009

He is the visionary behind some of the world's most avant-garde buildings, including the Swiss Re "Gherkin" in the City of London and New York's Hearst Tower. Now, Sir Norman Foster has turned to boat design, creating four 134ft luxury yachts to tempt the super-rich.

Is Unesco damaging the world's treasures?

Wednesday, 29 April 2009

Simon Usborne: Is the World Heritage project really the gold standard for conservation?

Birmingham's £6bn makeover

Wednesday, 22 April 2009

Britain's new architectural hot spot is Birmingham and it's handing £6bn to a thundering horde of architects to prove it.

The Big Question: Why is Prince Charles angry about a development at Chelsea Barracks?

Tuesday, 21 April 2009

Why are we asking this now?
The Barracks is a dream site for any developer who might be a descendent of Croesus, the fabulously wealthy king of Lydia, circa 550BC. The site covers more than five hectares of one of London's fanciest sites, close to the river and directly opposite Wren's Royal Hospital. In the Croesus stakes, few families are wealthier than the royal clan of Qatar, one of whose companies, Qatari Diar, bought the Barracks jointly with CPC Group, operated by the Candy brothers, for £950m last year. Prince Charles dislikes their scheme for the site, designed by Lord Rogers' practice, Rogers Stirk Harbour, and has apparently quilled a note to Qatar's rulers, asking them to use another architect.

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