Architecture

The £185m building that opens up Oxford University

The Stephen A Schwarzman centre, built with the university’s largest ever donation, is a welcoming, contemporary take on a traditional Oxford building

Why a radical ‘new almshouse’ won the Stirling prize

An elegant building in Bermondsey with flats for the over-65s aims to provide homes that are sociable and serene

The machines that made Manchester

Within the city’s Science and Industry Museum, a whirling, spinning array of engines are still the stars of the show in a fine £18.9m makeover

Beyond the canopy: remarkable treehouses

Around the world, amazing spaces are being created to co-exist with forest environments

How the Lovell Health House became a Hollywood icon

The 1930s modernist masterpiece was designed as a centre of wellness and sanitation before directors spotted its cinematic potential

How the former US embassy became an opulent Mayfair hotel

Eero Saarinen’s mid-century masterpiece shines on the outside, but its new interiors put the gross into Grosvenor Square

A playdate with Rembrandt

The centrepiece of the museum’s £5m makeover is a joyful work of grown-up architecture designed for children – and delighting adults

Night and day: a remarkable design concept in Madrid

A family home of two pavilions, one for daytime, the other for night-time use

Inside Everton’s controversial new stadium

The club’s new £800m home has finally opened on a waterfront site – that has been stripped of its Unesco status as a result

100 years of Art Deco: a movement comes of age

The design and architecture style of post-war France still has influence today

The battle over Liverpool Street Station

How the country’s busiest railway station became embroiled in the never-ending battle between heritage and development

How will we remember Queen Elizabeth II?

Norman Foster’s winning design for a memorial to the queen in St James’s Park sidesteps the usual outrage with a careful mix of the pleasant and the popular

What are the potential nominees for the 2025 Stirling prize?

An improbable home fusing rustic tradition and tech should charm judges, but AstraZeneca’s Discovery Centre stands out

V&A East Storehouse is a national treasure trove

Buddhas, a medieval ceiling and the David Bowie archive are among 600,000 gloriously random objects stacked high and low in an immersive new storage space for the V&A, designed to ‘lean into the delirium’

Liz Diller: ‘Do work that you’re totally unqualified to do’

The architect behind New York’s High Line on reimagining the storage space at the V&A in London and her verdict on The Brutalist

Marina Tabassum: architect of refugee shelters arrives at the Serpentine

Named one of Time magazine’s most influential people in 2024, the Bangladeshi architect behind this summer’s Serpentine pavilion in London is no stranger to transient structures

The Venice Architecture Biennale: ‘a hot mess of pretension’

Bright spots in curator Carlo Ratti’s teeming assemblage of eco-focused exhibits at the 19th architecture biennale include an almost poetic moment for concrete and organised anarchy for priced-out young Venetians

Architecture review: the UK’s largest co-housing project

Hazelmead's 53 new homes have been hard won but cost less than £10m. So why doesn’t every town, city and village have a co-housing development like this?