Culture

The rough texture of the concrete walls evokes Clyfford Still’s energetic, impassioned brushstrokes

Allied Works' arresting art museum in Denver Subscription Required

21 December 2011 | By Michael Webb

A major new art museum dedicated to the life and work of Clyfford Still draws on the expressive energy and elementality of the painter’s oeuvre

_DSC2196CXX

Living Space Subscription Required

1 November 2011 | By Jeremy Melvin

Red Location’s evolving cultural precinct explores ideas about placemaking and the African urban realm

Villa Vauban, Luxembourg by Philippe Schmit Architects

Copper Awards: Highly Commended Subscription Required

1 November 2011

Villa Vauban, Luxembourg by Philippe Schmit Architects

Riverside Museum by Zaha Hadid Architects, Glasgow, UK

Riverside Museum by Zaha Hadid Architects, Glasgow, UK Subscription Required

29 June 2011 | By Douglas Murphy

Vantage points of the museum open up to reveal the zinc clad five-peak roof profile of Zaha Hadid’s first cultural building in the UK. Photography by Hufton + Crow

Roku Museum by Hiroshi Nakamura & Nap Architects, Oyama City, Japan

Roku Museum by Hiroshi Nakamura & Nap Architects, Oyama City, Japan Subscription Required

29 June 2011 | By Rob Gregory

Surrounded by a grid of mature trees, the Roku Museum appears to be set in a natural grove. Photography by Hiroshi Nakamura & Nap Architects

Museum aan de Stroom by Neutelings Riedijk Architects, Antwerp, Belgium

Museum aan de Stroom by Neutelings Riedijk Architects, Antwerp, Belgium Subscription Required

29 June 2011 | By Mark Lamster

Improbable geometries of variegated stone and wavy glass loom over the Antwerp dockside. Photography by Paul Raftery

San Telmo Museum by Nieto Sobejano, San Sebastián, Spain

San Telmo Museum by Nieto Sobejano, San Sebastián, Spain Subscription Required

29 June 2011 | By Catherine Slessor

Clad in a skin of delicately perforated aluminium panels, the new extension flares out from the convent complex. Photography by Paul Raftery

The Hepworth Wakefield by David Chipperfield Architects, Yorkshire, UK

The Hepworth Wakefield by David Chipperfield Architects, Yorkshire, UK Subscription Required

29 June 2011 | By Isabel Allen

David Chipperfield describes the Hepworth Wakefield as ‘dipping its toes in the water’. Photography by Paul Raftery

AR 1993 January - The Irish Film Centre by O'Donnell and Tuomey

AR 1993 January − The Irish Film Centre by O'Donnell and Tuomey Subscription Required

27 May 2011 | By Catherine Slessor

[ARCHIVE] In Dublin, a seventeenth-century Quaker meeting house has been remodelled as the Irish Film Centre

Lyric Theatre by O'Donnell + Tuomey, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Lyric Theatre by O'Donnell + Tuomey, Belfast, Northern Ireland Subscription Required

27 May 2011 | By Kester Rattenbury

The Lyric is a grounded building, in the context of its site and in light of the last century’s great auditoria. Photography by Dennis Gilbert

Brad Pitt

Brad Pitt's pet project fails to deliver Subscription Required

30 January 2012 | By Rhys Gwilym

Film star turned aspiring architect tries to Make It Right in New Orleans with disappointing results

House in Komazawa and Pilotis in a Forest_Japan_Go Hasegawa

Comparing two small houses by Go Hasegawa in Japan Subscription Required

22 December 2011 | By Andrew Wilson

Two dwellings display an equally deft approach to the constraints of the suburb and the freedom of the forest

Hempcrete Walls

Glen Howells Architects challenge conventions of volume house building Subscription Required

20 December 2011 | By Crispin Kelly

Conceived as an exemplary riposte to the dreariness and mediocrity of most volume housebuilding, this new residential scheme in Swindon actively engages with ideas about community, sustainability and place