Design visuals
Foster's Datong museum under construction
China’s ‘museum of the 21st century’ will represent the country in 2013 Basel Art
Making a splash: Baca Architects' amphibious home
The two-storey house will float when the dock beneath it fills with water during floods
New square for Fulham
London Square has won planning permission to create a £100m residential square in Fulham
Buro Happold and 3XN unveil Odenplan station entrance
Proposed structure in Stockholm will have curved concrete amphitheatre over underground concourse
Under construction
Southend Pier Cultural Centre: Out on a limb
How do you carry out a construction project more than a mile out to sea during one of the wettest, windiest summers on record? Well, Kier’s approach to the £3m Southend Pier Cultural Centre job was to build it somewhere else
Shard spire appears in Yorkshire field
Mace and Severfield Rowen erect Shard’s steel spire on airfield to test construction processes
BIM: The inside story one year on
Building caught up with the team on the Manchester library refurb project to see if BIM was everything they hoped it would be
Junk Jellyfish theatre emerges on Bankside
Theatre designer Martin Kaltwasser struggles with buiding bureaucrats to deliver this pop-up recycled theatre in Southwark
Completed buildings
Aylesbury Estate: Taking back the streets
How phase 1 of a two decade redevelopment has brought back the traditional grain of the streets to London’s deprived Aylesbury Estate
Special projects: Cutty Sark - the crystal ship
The world’s last surviving tea clipper has risen again - not just restored, but dramatically suspended in a vast diagrid glass canopy. Ike Ijeh looks around - and underneath - Grimshaw Architects’ impressive renovation
Housing Design Awards 2012: Quality streets
Our technical editor’s take on the five winning schemes in this year’s Housing Design Awards
The Titanic Belfast: The ship comes home
The Titanic museum in Belfast is a striking and poignant memorial to a vessel whose history is intrisically intertwined with that of the city. Ike Ijeh reports
Post occupancy
The big brother houses: monitoring residents' energy use
Housebuilders can specify all the green technology they want, but what happens when human beings get left in charge of the thermostat? Buro Happold installed sensors to find out, then told Thomas Lane what they discovered
Tellytubby land: BedZed revisited
Peabody’s BedZed was the housing scheme that first got everyone talking about zero-carbon living. But is it all that it was cracked up to be?
Scottish parliament: Miralles’ magnificent mess revisited
The bizarre mixture of the dysfunctional,the delightful and the disappointing that is the Scottish parliament building opened in 2004. Five-and-a-half years later, Martin Spring returned to ask the MSPs it was built for what it’s like to work in
Will Alsop's Peckham library revisited
It won the Stirling prize, but many doubted whether it would ever win over the locals. Nine years on, Martin Spring went back to Will Alsop’s Peckham library to find out
Architecture news
Olympic stadium revamp set for approval
Reworking of 2012 stadium by architect Populous given thumbs up ahead of planning meeting
RMJM bosses in war of words
Leaked email reveals chief executive Peter Morrison criticising European chief Jonathan French
Revealed: Grimshaw's Wimbledon tennis masterplan
Architect releases fly-through of sweeping changes to historic tennis club site
Revealed: Fly-through of Wilkinson Eyre's Sydney resort
Wilkinson Eyre Architects have won the design competition for Crown Sydney Hotel Resort on the city’s harbourfront
UK's 'greenest council building' now complete
Project team dubs Brent’s new civic centre the UK’s most sustainable council building
New boss of Cabe appointed
Former director at Capita Symonds and Shepheard Epstein Hunter takes up post
Revealed: Fly-through of Herzog's Oxford uni project
Herzog & de Meuron and Laing O’Rourke’s £30m Blavatnik School of Government wins planning permission
Design team chosen for £800m Goodsyard scheme
Team appointed to design Hammerson and Ballymore’s £800m Bishopsgate Goodsyard development in London
Make Architects to close Birmingham office
Firm blames lack of regional work for decision to shut Birmingham base
Gensler returns to profit
British arm of US architect’s profitability boosted by overseas work in latest available accounts
British Land and AHMM to develop huge London scheme
Project will deliver 22 new buildings in Shoreditch
Holder Mathias co-founder announces retirement
Architect Peter Mathias to step down after 44 years at the practice
MCC unveils £200m Lord's revamp
Redevelopment of historic Cricket Ground designed by Colin Maber and Populous
Plans for UK's biggest Passivhaus development unveiled
Scheme would entail 150 homes being built in rural village in Herefordshire
Austin-Smith:Lord revenue falls 40%
Financially-troubled architect reports drop in business after problem project in Abu Dhabi but cuts losses
Architects lack business plans
Comprehensive RIBA survey of the industry finds nearly two thirds of architects lack business plans while average profits margins were 22%
