Architecture
Architecture
"These are not the moves of a city that is proud of its architecture"
With Coventry set to be UK City of Culture in 2021, the destruction of the city's post-war architecture needs to stop, says Owen Hatherley. More
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Architecture
Architecture
"The girls started asking why there weren't more women on the list of Pritzker Prize winners"
Teaching children about architecture opened Mary Tooley's eyes to the lack of recognition given to female architects. In this letter she wrote to Dezeen in response to our Move the Needle initiative, she explains what she is doing about it. More
Opinion
Opinion
"It would not be surprising to see every one of architecture's major awards presented to women this year"
As we kick off our Move the Needle initiative to improve gender equality, Tom Ravenscroft looks at how women architects have long been ignored by prize juries – but how 2018 could be the year this changes. More
Architecture
Architecture
"Apple may be the lesser of all evils for Federation Square"
Building an Apple Store may be the best way to safeguard the civic character of Melbourne's Federation Square, argues Michelle Tabet. More
Architecture
Architecture
"Can modernism be explained without an architectural education?"
In the 1970s, the Open University offered a course on the history of architecture and design. Architects can learn a lot from it, says Owen Hatherley. More
Opinion
Opinion
"To speak of entire communities without giving them a seat at the table reeks of arrogance"
The all-white panel of architects gathered by Woods Bagot to discuss Los Angeles' future urban development last week was misrepresentative of the city's diversity and needs, argues Janelle Zara. More
Architecture
Architecture
"If urban densification is inevitable, then let it be done with a material that makes us happy"
The mass-timber revolution is coming, says Clare Farrow, co-curator of the new London exhibition Timber Rising: Vertical Visions for the Cities of Tomorrow. More
Design
Design
"Kamprad is dead, but IKEA has a long way to run"
IKEA's unstoppable success is testament to the attitude of founder Ingvar Kamprad, a man who never spent money on things his customers couldn't afford, says Kieran Long. More
Opinion
Opinion
"Will Amazon's HQ2 actually be good for whatever city wins the race?"
North American cities are fiercely vying to secure Amazon's second headquarters, but will the retail giant really improve the culture and infrastructure of the area it finally chooses? Aaron Betsky doesn't think so. More
Architecture
Architecture
"In the name of place-making, architects are often complicit in social cleansing"
Place-making is a dangerous concept that has very little to do with architecture, argues Sean Griffiths. More
Opinion
Opinion
"550 Madison is worthy of the greatest respect and most careful preservation"
As demolition work begins on the lobby of Philip Johnson's AT&T Building, now known as 550 Madison, Municipal Art Society of New York chair Christy MacLear emphasises the building's architectural significance and warns of the limitations of the city's current preservation process. More
Architecture
Architecture
"Neave Brown is now among architecture's immortals"
Neave Brown's extraordinary legacy reflects a progressive social agenda that is lacking in many of today's architects, says Catherine Slessor. More
Opinion
Opinion
"There is no need to destroy one significant cultural legacy in order to celebrate another"
The Obama Presidential Center will be presented to the Chicago City Council today. But its proposed siting in the city's Jackson Park will both remove acres of public land and blight Fredrick Law Olmsted's historic landscape design, argues The Cultural Landscape Foundation president Charles A Birnbaum. More
Architecture
Architecture
"Architects are not just relaxed about cultural appropriation, we're experts"
A movement is growing against cultural appropriation, but could it spell the end for historical references in architecture? asks Phineas Harper. More
Opinion
Opinion
"America's hinterlands now serve as playgrounds for the few wired haves"
Globalisation isn't killing the USA's backwater cities and rural areas, but rather turning them into escapes for wealthy "digirati" who are pumping money into regeneration projects, says Aaron Betsky in response to a New York Times article. More
Architecture
Architecture
"What is happening at Sewoon Sangga is, quietly, quite extraordinary"
A brutalist megastructure in Seoul is undergoing a major revamp. The result may not be photogenic, says Owen Hatherley, but it offers a promising model for regeneration without gentrification. More
Design
Design
"Turning away from the serious provides a welcome breath of air"
What were the key themes that emerged at Dutch Design Week 2017? We asked six graduates on Design Academy Eindhoven's design writing masters course to give their takes in essay form. Their answers include gigantism, post-humanism and absurdism, the latter exemplified by cushions based on Kim Kardashian's "butt-selfies". More
Architecture
Architecture
"Gender equality is one of the cornerstones of Swedish society"
Dezeen's gender diversity survey found that Scandinavian architecture firms have far better gender diversity than those elsewhere. Alexandra Hagen, director at Swedish firm White Arkitekter, explains why. More
Opinion
Opinion
"Is Phoenix doomed to fall back into the ashes?"
If sprawling desert metropolises like Phoenix, Arizona, are going to survive an increasingly scorching climate, they will require a different kind of sustainable urbanism than typical cities, says Aaron Betsky. More
Architecture
Architecture
"We need architects to work on ordinary briefs, for ordinary people"
The UK may be full of talented architects and designers, says Finn Williams, but not enough of them are working on the mundane buildings of our everyday environment. More