Berlin is a place for all ages, writes Anupama Kundoo, where people are an integral part of urban life; one that continues to renew itself with youthful energy, and allows young people to develop a strong civic sense.
Loved and loathed in equal measure, Los Angeles is in almost every way the antithesis of the classical European city: vast, sparse and built for the automobile, writes Elly Ward.
Washington DC’s urban grain creates a backdrop against which classical monuments shine, finds Francis Terry.
Awards
The Wood Awards is inviting architects and designers to submit UK-based timber projects
Lucca is a stage for civic life, find Patty Hopkins, who followed Sheila Hale’s ‘American Express Pocket Guide to Florence and Tuscany’ to the Tuscan city in search for a family holiday home.
Learning From
A hands-on approach fostered by the Royal College of Art continues to shape my work, says Carl Turner
Building Review
David Grandorge admires a retirement home in Belgium by DRDH Architects and Architecten de Vylder Vinck Taillieu
Building Review
Acme gives contemporary expression to retail architecture at Victoria Gate in Leeds
Building Review
Zaha Hadid Architects brings shock and awe to Antwerp’s Port Authority headquarters, says Ian Latham
Focus: envelope
Contrasting cladding materials articulate an affordable housing scheme by Simpson Haugh & Partners
Building Review
Hodder & Partners’ extension to an Oxford sixth-form college shows a commitment to enduring quality, finds Adrian James
Building Review
Wright & Wright deftly remodels the historic New Library at Magdalen College, Oxford
