Bridges, bike lanes, wooden pools and a (maybe) swimmable Seine... How will Paris's Olympic legacy stack up? theguardian.com/artanddesign/a…

"You travel five million years a metre" – inside Feilden Fowles and J & L Gibbons's magnificent new gardens for the Natural History Museum 🦕🌴 theguardian.com/artanddesign/a…

After finally visiting Azabudai Hills I can say with certainty that Olly Wainwright is right is his article and that I can't really understand how this Heatherwick charlatan can still get work (or even have people listening to anything he says). theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

Paris’s department stores transformed urban life. What can they teach today’s struggling shops? theguardian.com/artanddesign/a…

This year's Stirling Prize shortlist revealed: can a tiny dairy farm beat the epic Elizabeth Line? theguardian.com/artanddesign/a…

Why Eric Parry's gigantic orthopaedic toilet seat must be scrapped theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

From splashing in the Seine, to diving in the Danube: the drive to make cities swimmable theguardian.com/artanddesign/a… 👏Chris Romer-Lee et al 💦

New London Vernacular delivery.

Looking back, I think I got it right about Trump all the way back in 1988. It was all there then: the greed, the deceit, the total absence of any belief in the common good. ARCHITECTURE VIEW; Trump: Symbol of a Gaudy, Impatient Time - The New York Times nytimes.com/1988/01/31/art…

Explore Olly Wainwright's collection on alternative ways of living in the city. programme.openhouse.org.uk/collections/189

"An aggressive act of teeth-whitening in the mouth of a much-loved and elegant friend" – on the bleaching of the Sainsbury Wing, and a missive from the grave 👻theguardian.com/artanddesign/a…

‘There’s a lot to be built still’: architect Mariam Issoufou on excavating the past to build Africa’s future theguardian.com/global-develop…

Two very pertinent letters, following the Grenfell inquiry report 👇

A costly carousel of bollards: how the decade-long £132m rebirth of the Old Street roundabout went so badly wrong theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

Receiving dozens of speculative job applications each week whilst also losing out on projects to fee percentages that are less than half what the RIBA fee scale indicated in 1982 tells you everything you need to know about a profession in existential crisis...

Move over, Marble Arch Mound! Shanghai has spent £225m and 30,000 tonnes of steel and concrete to build its very own Twin Hills... theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

Hanif Kara wins the 2024 Soane Medal - here’s my interview with the man who makes architects’ wildest fantasies stand up theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

Inside Herzog & de Meuron's astonishing new children's hospital in Zurich – which was actually cheaper to build than the UK's £1bn PFI disasters in Liverpool and Smethwick Kinderspital Zürich theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

I've now also jumped ship to ollywainwright.bsky.social

All eyes will be on the freshly restored Notre-Dame cathedral this weekend – but the real story is what's happening right outside it theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…