Justin McGuirk
FeaturesWhat's in store?
Herzog & de Meuron were so bent on a particular look for an artistic warehouse-cum-showroom, they were prepared to go to any lengths to achieve it …
FeaturesTo the bastion
Francisco Mangado's concert hall in Pamplona has received rapturous applause from the locals … well, all except the odd terrorist. We take a peek into a peculiar tale
FeaturesNew York, New Look
Manhattan: Where modern office blocks come big and dumb. But now, suddenly, design is sexy again, clients are making a brand new start of it and European architects are being given a chance. We start spreading the news …
Featuresshh … Abalos & Herreros' dreamlike library is too good for words
The Usera Library in Madrid doesn't seem entirely real – more like a building you might encounter in a dream.
FeaturesCrisp and complex
A cuboid visitors centre in an Austrian vineyard bottles 900 years of tradition for slurping, sloshing wine bibbers.
FeaturesCecil Balmond
He doesn't recognise fixed systems of order, closed symmetries or assumptions of hierarchy, and sees structure as connective patterns. Man's clearly a bounder. We try to talk some sense into him.
FeaturesWild things
Blobby. Sparkly. Bendy. Spiky. Buildings today don't have to be square and straight – as a 21st-century architect you can really go crazy with ideas of fantastical design. Justin McGuirk looks at three schemes that will blow your mind
FeaturesTemporary Queens
Each summer for the past four years the PS1 forecourt has hosted an architectural installation, designed by the winner of the centre's Young Architects Programme. The programme, which has been a launching pad for thrusting practices such as SHoP (Sharples Holden and Pasquarelli), was won this year by Tom Wiscombe ...
FeaturesGym’ll fix it
Faced with 3 m of snow each year, the patients of Japan’s Odate hospital had nowhere to exercise in winter. But then along came Shigeru Ban with a characteristically unconventional solution – a subterranean gymnasium under a dome of pure plywood. ...
FeaturesBrixton Belle
The supreme winner of the 2002 Brick Awards illustrates how the domestic connotations of brick can reconcile high-density inner-city development with living spaces that make people feel at home.
FeaturesSpace station
In the planet's most barren landscape, a highly-trained crew of scientists are on a single mission: to track inter-stellar activity using the world's largest telescope. But they need somewhere to live …