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Oliver Wainwright

Oliver Wainwright is the Guardian's architecture and design critic

August 2024

  • Nek Chand Saini’s Rock Garden of Chandigarh.

    ‘What they threw away, I used’: the story behind Nek Chand’s 25-acre outsider art masterpiece

    This forest of intricately decorated statues was begun in secret by a man who never considered himself an artist but built what became India’s most visited tourist site after the Taj Mahal, the Rock Garden of Chandigarh

July 2024

  • Architect's visualisation of the proposed development at 1 Undershaft in the City of London. DBOX is a global marketing and communications agency specialising in property and architecture. From our studios in Los Angeles, Miami, New York, London, Budapest, Lviv and Hong Kong we have delivered highly successful campaigns and acquired valuable knowledge of HNWI and multi-lingual audiences throughout Europe, the Middle East, China, Southeast Asia and the Americas.

    The City of London’s tallest skyscraper could look like a toilet seat in the sky – and that’s not even the worst thing about it

    Oliver Wainwright
  • A colossal project sees 195 flats reborn … Park Hill housing estate, transformed by Mikhail Riches, on the Sterling prize shortlist.

    Britain’s best new building: can a tiny dairy farm beat the epic Elizabeth line?

  • The Crespin and Dufayel department store.

    Paris’s department stores transformed urban life. What can they teach today’s struggling shops?

  • Skeleton staff … Fern, the new bronze replica of Dippy, oversees the garden.

    ‘You travel five million years a metre’: inside the Natural History Museum’s mind-boggling new garden

  • Plastic-bottle seats and wooden pools: can Paris deliver the leanest, greenest Olympics yet?

  • My bricklayer’s gone viral! Why construction workers are the new social media stars

  • Barbie: The Exhibition review – the wonder doll’s evolution, from Gehry homes to ‘gay Ken’

June 2024

  • Labour leader Keir Starmer takes a selfie during a visit to Bathgate in Scotland.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Starmer says he would not let SNP hold new independence referendum or lift veto on gender recognition bill – as it happened

  • A 3D graphic of a crumpled and torn illustration of a new-build house

    The broken years: Tory Britain 2010-24
    How a disastrous Tory policy blew up the housing market

  • Becoming-a-nation-of-townbuilders-Create-Streets-smaller-9

    Change? If only. Labour’s housing plans are built on flimsy foundations, fantasies and fudge

    Oliver Wainwright
  • Ready to fly … Assemble’s Maria Lisogorskaya with a Ghanaian coffin on a rubble plinth.

    ‘A show you want to pick up and fondle’: Assemble electrify the RA’s Summer Exhibition

  • ‘Public vandalism’: M&S wants to flatten its art deco flagship store – here are six alternative options

  • ‘I plumbed in our bath – and it works!’ The DIY diehards who built 36 affordable homes from scratch

May 2024

  • Popular with fashion houses … the seashore chapel in Beidaihe.

    ‘Our parents did all the hard work. We don’t have to’: China’s seaside haven for the ‘lying flat’ generation

  • Quite a view from the sofa … the treehouse by the artificial waterfall.

    Romans in togas, shepherds in saunas and the Bridgerton garden in bloom … my wild day at Chelsea flower show

  • Welcome to the Inca citadel … Miguel Rodrigo Mazuré’s Hotel in Machu Picchu, Peru, 1969.

    How the world could have looked: the most spectacular buildings that were never made

  • Kunstsilo in Kristiansand, Norway.

    ‘An incredible phallic landmark!’ The grain silo gallery, a gift from the trillion dollar man

  • ‘We’ve got drone swarms, dirty bombs, radar-jamming’: the fake town where America practises for war

  • Tunnels, treehouses and tensegrity towers: landmarks in protest architecture, from UCLA to Hong Kong

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