Opinion
“Architecture can feel like a paltry gesture in times like ours”
“We could imagine nationhood as a design project”
“The idea of succession is not discussed enough in the design industry”
“New York is rapidly evolving beyond a Manhattan-centric identity”
“After decades of Detroit ruin porn, America’s Biennale exhibition runs riot”
“Vote Leave is a vote for a theme park instead of a country”
“Is architecture really as guileless as Aravena’s Biennale suggests?”
“When will a more ambitious and influential spirit return to the New York design scene?”
“Calatrava’s transit hub feels utterly scrubbed of memory and dislocated from New York”
“In Milan, design is best exhibited where it’s not supposed to be”
“Could joined-up thinking finally be breaking out in Milan?”
“Treating the refugee crisis as a design problem is problematic”
“We are all responsible for the state of architectural education in the UK”
“Kyiv is a city where any and all public space is seized upon by parasitic capital”
“Pokémon GO has redrawn the map of what people find important about the world”
“Europe has been for the lucky few in the UK”
“EU design displays the best and the worst of doing things by scrupulous consensus”
“Hardly any British designers have had a style as instantly recognisable as David King”
“Railroad stations are our contemporary architecture of democracy”
“Australia’s swimming pools exemplify the balancing act of architecture”
“Designers cannot just stand by and watch as the refugee crisis unfolds”
“Why not move some of Britain’s political power northwards?”
“This year Milan stopped being a furniture fair and became something more interesting”
