Urbanism
A radical new masterplan for Doha
Part of the Qatari capital of Doha is being redeveloped to reconnect with the traditional urban patterns and textures of historic Arab cities
Investigating the redevelopment of India’s most famous informal settlement, Dharavi
Following a visit to Mumbai’s largest informal settlement, the AR reports on the government’s plan to displace residents when it redevelops Dharavi
Grand plans are afoot in Earls Court as Terry Farrell reveals his masterplan
Masterplanning is not big architecture, as Terry Farrell’s winning proposal for the competition to redevelop London’s Earls Court illustrates
Medieval roots meeting modern interventions add piquancy to Ghent's urban condition
Flemish practice Robbrecht en Daem is applying a sense of pragmatism and delight to its major renovation of ghent’s public squares
Las Vegas, USA – MGM's $8.5 billion development, CityCentre
The most expensive development in US history tries to redefine junkspace urbanism on the strip
Wouter Vanstiphout of Crimson Architectural Historians on how Rotterdam’s Biennale is giving impetus to a new set of urban plans
Maakbaarheid, a uniquely Dutch concept of social improvement through architeture, has given impetus to a set of new urban proposals for the Rotterdam Biennale
New York practice WORKac takes 49 urban designs back to the drawing board
A New York practice standardises some of the most famous urban design proposals in history, with eye-opening results
Florian Beigel's proposals for Saemangeum, a new metropolis in South Korea
An ideas competition in Saemangeum in South Korea has seen Florian Beigel’s ideas expressed on an epic scale, envisage a city of islands reclaimed from a lagoon
The Greens under Scrutiny
Roger Scruton pushes for community responsibility to save the local environment before approaching the depths of global change
MAXXI exhibition: tribute to the act of recycling
Luigi Puglisi reviews the new exhibition at Zaha’s MAXXI, which offers a large collection of drawings, buildings and projects, united by the theme of recycling
The Untold Story of the World’s Most Famous Drawing
Toby Lester observes the legacy of Leonardo da Vinci’s iconic Vitruvian Man
Ushering in a third industrial revolution
Ecconomic crisis as a hangover from century-old break-throughs that today inhibit personal agency
Notions of beauty and the sublime are reinterpreted in the digital age
Lars Spouybroek examines John Ruskin’s imaginative convictions on today’s digitally centred preoccupation
A different approach to learning from nature
Michael Pawlyn’s stimulating introduction to ways of thinking that could radically change how we build
Modernist Pioneers exhibition in Vienna
New exhibition in the Lower Belvedere celebrates the 150th anniversary of Klimt’s birth.
Urbanism and Architecture at the Shenzhen & Hong Kong Biennale
Shenzhen is not Venice but it does have an architectural biennale
