Architects hark back
While today’s Expos often leave behind curious wastelands dotted with rotting pavilions and coloured tarmac, occasionally garnished with clusters of private flats, it is heartening to remember that things were not always…
Meet the architecture giant
Their buildings dot the globe, but you probably couldn’t name one, nor would you ever guess they had come from the same practice. They have built a gargantuan conference centre in China that looks like a teetering stack of mirror-clad Jenga blocks, an enormous concert hall in Singapore in the…
The titan of tent architecture
What better way to go, just weeks before your 90th birthday, than to see the world’s most powerful company unveil a vast new HQ that owes everything to your work? The new Google campus proposed for Mountain View…
City of art
They have adorned bronzed bodies with luxury leather goods since 1913, purveyed sharp-cut suits and red-soled shoes to the stars, and grown into a $10bn global empire with more than 300 stores worldwide. But Prada’s most…
Rogers’s new ‘non-dom accom’
When the Stirling prize shortlist was announced last week there were gasps of incredulity that Neo Bankside, the angular cluster of luxury flats poking up behind Tate Modern in London, had muscled its way into a group of …