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
Shard spire appears in Yorkshire field
Mace and Severfield Rowen erect Shard’s steel spire on airfield to test construction processes
2012 countdown: The aquatics centre
Since the aquatics centre’s 160m-long roof was lowered into place last year, work on the Zaha Hadid-designed venue has continued to power ahead
Junk Jellyfish theatre emerges on Bankside
Theatre designer Martin Kaltwasser struggles with buiding bureaucrats to deliver this pop-up recycled theatre in Southwark
2012 countdown: The velodrome
The plan with the velodrome was to make it as lean as a racing bike, says Chris Wise, one of its designers
Completed buildings
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
BREEAM at the BBC
Vinci’s BBC Wales studios have become the highest BREEAM rated industrial building in the UK
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
Exhibition Road: Walkin' & wheels
Dixon Jones’ £28m reworking of South Kensington’s great museum quarter, Exhibition Road, resolves the long stand-off between pedestrians and cars by allowing them to share the same space. Ike Ijeh is knocked over by the simplicity of the design. Photographs by Tim Crocker
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
Foster & Partners to design Roman artefact museum
Museum will house more than 1,000 stone relief funerary blocks in southern France
Zaha Hadid hits out at 'rude' 2012 bosses
Architect of the Aquatics Centre complains she has not been invited to the Olympics
Hackney moots ‘timber-first’ planning policy
Council may support use of wood, where feasible, as ‘primary construction material’
60% of architects have no business plan
RIBA report highlights lack of forward planning by most architecture practices
Boris seeks consultants for London design panel
Consultants sought for design and urbanism procurement panel
British housing slammed as "cramped and poorly planned"
RIBA and Ipsos MORI report into public attitudes highlights dissatisfaction with space
Aecom and NBS join forces to launch new BIM service
New firm NBS Schumann Smith will add cost and carbon data to BIM models offered to architects
Dream job for Arup in Seoul
Engineering services firm plays centrol role in South Korean commercial development
RIBA to include BIM in Plan of Work
The RIBA Plan of Work is set to be overhauled for the first time in 50 years to include BIM processes.
Imperial War Museum proposals approved
£35m expansion and regeneration scheme wins council’s backing
Serpentine pavilion designs revealed
Designs by architect Herzog & de Meuron and artist Ai Weiwei unveiled
Broadgate owners apply for certificate of immunity from listing
British Land and Blackstone risk new heritage battle while unveiling new public realm plans for City complex
Selfridges confirms Shard architect role on revamp
Renzo Piano’s appointment to store extension will set the luxury retailer’s agenda for the ‘next century’
Chelsea submits bid for Battersea Power Station
Clubs hopes to develop a 60,000 seat stadium on iconic site as well as homes, shops and offices
Killby & Gayford collapse halts work on centre for black history
Work on £6.5m history and culture centre in Brixton forced to stop after contractor goes into administration
Exclusive: Shard architect primed for flagship Selfridges scheme
Renzo Piano set to embark on third high profile London project with major Oxford Street store extension
One World Trade Center tops New York
Construction of the £1.8bn One World Trade Center surpasses the Empire State Building
