Sanjeev Shankar’s canopy made from discarded cooking oil cans was a winner in last year’s AR Awards for Emerging Architecture

AR Emerging Architecture Awards: Last chance to enter

6 September 2010

There is one week left to enter the most popular and prestigious awards programme in the world for young architects

Shock go-ahead for Richard Meier’s first building in UK

1 September 2010 | By Merlin Fulcher

Designs for celebrity Rowan Atkinson’s house wins planning permission despite planning officers’ recommendations

British prime minister David Cameron’s recent trade mission to India included this red carpet reception at what was formerly the Viceroy’s House in New Delhi, originally designed by Edwin Lutyens. It is now the Indian president’s residence

India – The emerging ‘special relationship’ between India and the UK

23 August 2010 | By Will Hunter

Britain seeks a ‘new special relationship’

Robert Byron’s rapturous account of his journey to New Delhi as it appeared in the pages of the AR in 1931

New Delhi, India – Delving into the archives to uncover Robert Byron’s 1931 account of New Delhi

23 August 2010 | By Catherine Slessor

Documenting a city of ‘proper magnificence’ in a very different era: an early AR journey to India

Stuttgart, Germany − The campaign to save Stuttgart station is motivated by more than just a concern for conservation

23 August 2010 | By Layla Dawson

Ambitious plans to redevelop Stuttgart station have triggered a protest that is escalating beyond issues of conservation

This competition entry for a cultural and music centre is described by its designer, Hernan Diaz Alonso, as ‘a cinematic game where there is no narrative, only active behaviours and aesthetic provocations of lust’

Venice, Italy − Without emotion, there can be no beauty in architecture

23 August 2010 | By Yael Reisner

To really connect with people, architecture needs to get back in touch with its emotions

Part cross section through the Colón’s auditorium (modelled on La Scala) and promenading spaces

Buenos Aires, Argentina − The Teatro Colón opera house in Buenos Aires is finally restored to its luscious former glory

23 August 2010 | By Catherine Slessor

South America’s finest opera house takes its place once again in the social and civic life of Buenos Aires

Key surrealist works such as Salvador Dalí’s Sleep meet films, writings, objects and even architecture in the Barbican’s exhibition

London, UK – Surrealism and the house: dream homes should stay as fantasies

27 July 2010

Why surrealism’s dream houses are doomed to fail

The ArcelorMittal Orbit

London, UK – Outrage: Anish Kapoor's Olympic monument is a confused mess

13 May 2010 | By William Curtis

Anish Kapoor and Cecil Balmond’s towering steel ‘icon’ for the 2012 Olympics is just a messy, meaningless, plutocrat’s plaything

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