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He makes pavilions from seeds and breathes life into buses. Bryan Appleyard meets Thomas Heatherwick, whose quirky style points to a new kind of architecture ...  read more »

The Pruitt-Igoe housing project in St Louis, Missouri, was built during the post-war boom. A new film explores why it all came crashing down ...   read more »

Giovanna Dunmall meets the architects who are saving money and reducing waste by breathing new life into old buildings ...  read more »

Cool design and environmental conscientiousness intersect in Venice, where the latest Architecture Biennale is also one of the best ...  read more »

It has been the defining style of our era, but now it’s in retreat. Stephen Bayley works out whether less will soon be no more...  read more »

Some enterprising architects grapple with the cityscapes of the 2030s ...  read more »

Dubai has just unveiled the world's largest skyscraper, like a hypodermic needle against the desert sky. In a feature last year J.M. Ledgard asked, "what is the point of the Burj Dubai? And does it even have a good view?" ...  read more »

Frank Lloyd Wright once defied "anyone to name a single aspect of the best contemporary architecture that wasn’t done first by" him. He had a point, writes Emily Bobrow ...  read more »

Le Corbusier was perhaps the greatest architect of the 20th century. He thought he could reshape mankind by creating a new form of city, yet he seldom practised what he preached, writes Jonathan Meades ...  read more »