From the archive: 2009
Although our architecture correspondent was a big fan of Westminster Abbey’s new slinky glass-walled staircase, which has also won the popular vote, plans to overhaul the landmark haven’t always been so popular
From the archive: 1886
As we look at the Social Value Act and consider whether it will encourage firms to be more sustainable and ethical, we look back to a time where the deserving poor had to rely on the generosity of rich philanthropists
From the archive: 2008
This week we decided to see if our review of the year 2008 could really be doom and gloom from beginning to end. It was
From the archive: 2008
This week we look back at how foreign climes beckoned for Brits pre-recession
From the archive: 1894
This week we look back at a scathing review of an iconic London landmark
From the archive: 2015
This week we look back to a pressing issue back in 2015 for education construction – how to build enough schools for 25% more places by 2020
From the archive: 1947
Sometimes the things we take for granted turn out to be most revolutionary
This week in 2017
Housing: the forgotten crisis?
From the archive: 2016
The squeeze
From the archive: 2016
Prefab housing: Here’s one we made earlier
From the archive: 1968
Something in the air
This week in 2017
Something in the air
From the archive in 2001
Prince Charles slams tall buildings
This week in 2017
Building a Better Brexit
This week in 2008
Skills crisis looms in run-up to 2012 Olympics
This week in 2011
This is the BBC…
This week in 2015
Defeated Shell Centre protester considers appeal
This week in 1993
The saga of Westminster Palace
This week in 1988
Surgical reconstruction
Looking back to 2005
This week’s archive piece looks back at brutalist parking blocks, “monstrosities”, and a Michael Caine-inspired script starring a besuited architect