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Oliver Wainwright

Oliver Wainwright is the Guardian's architecture and design critic

May 2024

  • 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

  • Soldiers test their ability to combat an opposing force at Fort Irwin National Training Centre

    ‘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

  • A 007 paradise – or lads holiday in Marbella? Inside Aston Martin’s lavish Miami penthouses

April 2024

  • Semi-naked cartoon savages … the Jarvis Mural.

    ‘One of the most racist things I’ve ever seen’: how RIBA is decolonising its HQ

  • ‘A changeable system’… the Study Pavilion at the Technical University of Braunschweig, designed by Berlin based Architects Gustav Düsing & Max Hacke.

    ‘It should feel like an extension of the living room’: radical study centre is named best building in Europe

  • ‘What could be a more fitting symbol of British suburbia?’ … photographer Gareth Gardner was transfixed by this hedge in Cheshire.

    ‘This one’s like a castle!’ The hunt for the world’s wildest, daftest and most beautiful hedges

  • Where’s my superhero suit? … an artist’s rendering of the Cotino clubhouse, inspired by Incredibles 2.

    Let’s move to Disney town! Will life in its 2,000 themed homes be a dream or a nightmare?

March 2024

  • Forging ahead … Putrella, 1958, Mari’s fruit bowl made from a steel beam.

    Enzo Mari review – the anarchic Italian at war with design world ‘pornography’

  • Te Taumata o Kupe, global indigenous learning centre by Toa Architects. For piece on Māori architecture, New Zealand

    ‘This is our beautiful castle’: the stunning new buildings expressing Māori pride

  • Abandoned building at sunset

    LA’s graffiti-tagged skyscraper: a work of art – and symbol of city’s wider failings

  • Riken Yamamoto’s Yokosuka Museum of Art.

    ‘I am not very good at design’: architecture’s top honour goes to Riken Yamamoto

February 2024

  • Choppers away ... the mirrored Kyiv tower by Svitlana Zdorenko.

    ‘I get looks of disbelief’: the visionary women shaking up architecture worldwide

  • Black Star Square, Accra.

    Post-colonial party pads! The architects who got Ghana back in the groove

  • Embassy Garden sky pool, London, Britain

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: Penthouses and poor doors: how Europe’s ‘biggest regeneration project’ fell flat – podcast

  • Keeping them in stitches … the top-floor sewing workshop.

    Nifty shades of grey: the fashion college where students inject the colour

  • The skylights? They’re from fighter jets! The anarchic architect who transformed Belgium

  • ‘We always dreamed of building our own house – so we did’

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