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New book celebrates Thomas Hardy the architectSubscription
Rob Bevan traces the history of architecture and the novelist through Kester Rattenbury’s new book, The Wessex Project
Battersea Power Station dusts off plans for chimney-climbing ‘great glass elevator’Subscription
Battersea Power Station has released new images of its plans to build a glass lift designed by WilkinsonEyre inside one of its landmark chimneys
Fatboy Slim: architecture junkie and Brighton cheerleaderSubscription
Placemaking consultant Jim Roberts speaks to DJ Norman Cook about his beloved Brighton and the buildings and places that make it special
‘Modern day Archigram’: judges laud winner of Architecture Drawing Prize 2018Subscription
The founding partner of Beijing-based Drawing Architecture Studio has won the second annual Architecture Drawing Prize
Review: Dido and Aeneas, staged by Sam Jacob at Shatwell FarmSubscription
Last weekend saw an architectural take on Purcell’s opera Dido and Aeneas: a Sam Jacob Studio-designed staging in a Stephen Taylor-designed cowshed at Shatwell Farm
Elmgreen & Dragset transforms Whitechapel Gallery into abandoned swimming poolSubscription
The installation, part of the artist duo’s survey exhibition This is How We Bite Our Tongue, points to ‘a loss of faith in public space in an era of austerity’
Building from the bottom up doesn’t mean you have to think smallVideoSubscription
Sometimes a really big idea can consist of a series of smaller ideas, says Paul Finch
‘Modernism began in Essex’: new book celebrates the movement’s birthplaceSubscription
Mary Douglas is fascinated by Radical Essex, a documentation of the county’s alternative history
David Chipperfield Architects’ ‘mini-biennale’ of works-in-progressSubscription
Although this exhibition of 18 schemes is beautifully presented, the displays don’t fully mesh with its stated intention, writes Jon Astbury
Christo’s first major outdoor sculpture in the UK opens in Hyde ParkSubscription
The London Mastaba is a huge, vivid – if slightly dead-feeling – object floating in the Serpentine in London’s Hyde Park, writes Rob Wilson
