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Oliver Wainwright

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Oliver Wainwright is the Guardian's architecture and design critic

June 2026

  • Donald Trump speaks to members of the media on the South Lawn of the White House in 2025.

    US politics live
    Trump’s $1.8bn ‘anti-weaponization’ fund scrapped, acting attorney general Todd Blanche confirms – as it happened

  • An aerial view shows the Obama Presidential Center tower rising from landscaped Chicago grounds near water

    ‘Like a Klingon prison’: inside Barack Obama’s audacious, near-windowless, $850m presidential library

April 2026

  • A futuristic looking building made of concrete and glass.

    Like a concrete aircraft carrier: was LA’s giant new $724m gallery really worth all the carbon emissions?

    Built on tar swamps and two tortuous decades in the making, Lacma’s latest addition used twice as much metal as the Eiffel Tower. How did America supersize revered architect Peter Zumthor?

December 2025

  • Thrilling … the Third Front factory, which made artillery fuses, was hidden in a cave complex in Hunan.

    ‘A cave complex worthy of Batman!’ Mind-boggling buildings that showed the world a new China

    The birth of the People’s Republic is seen as a time of drab buildings. But this dazzling show, featuring a factory in a cave and a denounced roof, tells a wildly different story
  • Frank Gehry in the main hall of the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, at the time of its opening in 1997.

    Frank Gehry obituary

    Canadian–American architect who explored crumpling and fish curves in such buildings as the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao
  • A brawny bronzed bully … the new global HQ of JP Morgan, the world’s biggest bank.

    An eco obscenity: Norman Foster’s steroidal new skyscraper is an affront to the New York skyline

    It contains enough steel to go round the world twice – and even has a fake breeze to flutter the stars-and-stripes flag in its lobby. If this $4bn colossus is just the first of a new breed of bulky supertalls, is Britain next?

October 2025

  • West facade with fin detail, Princeton University Art Museum, 2025. Courtesy of the Princeton University Art Museum. Photo: Richard Barnes PUAM, New Jersey, USA

    ‘We want people to get lost!’ Princeton’s new museum survives scandal to deliver a mazey art ambush

    It is architect David Adjaye’s first major project since the allegations that rocked his firm – a bold museum for Princeton University with exhibits that sneak up on its students. But do the insides match the outsides?

September 2025

  • Years of leaks … Judd’s reroofed artillery sheds.

    Leaky roofs, collapsed walls, mega debts: when art’s master minimalist Donald Judd tried architecture

  • Across 10 lanes of traffic … the otherworldly Calder Gardens.

    Garden of unearthly delights: inside the eerie underground lair for ‘master of mobiles’ Alexander Calder

  • Tower Court, Clapton Common, Hackney, London

    ‘Our hallway’s big enough to play football in!’ The council housing that feels like a holiday resort

  • Gilded temple … the Chancery Rosewood hotel entrance.

    ‘A gilded temple to the new world order’: inside the former US embassy that is now a super-luxe hotel

August 2025

  • Harold Offeh: Mmm, Gotta Try a Little Harder, It Could Be Sweet, Home Ground: The Architecture of Football and Space

    Space, stadiums, poses and prizes: the best art and architecture of autumn 2025

    The season’s standouts include mighty Picassos, mesmerising mushrooms, the visions of Kerry James Marshall, the combat photography of Lee Miller – and a return trip to space
  • The Anthony Timberlands Center in Arkansas

    ‘It has a heroic, Roman quality’: how Arkansas’s timber university building could revolutionise architecture

    First conceived as a ‘spider’s web of sticks’, this vast wooden wonder may end up being a template for the environmentally sound buildings of the future
  • Garnished with art … Bazalgette Embankment, a new public space jutting into the Thames.

    World’s swankiest manhole covers? A thrilling tour of the new embankments concealing London’s £4.6bn super sewer

    Built to tackle 18m tonnes of rising excrement, the Tideway project has also generated dramatic new public spaces dotted with giant artworks. Our writer takes the ‘stink tower’ tour of the capital

July 2025

  • A detail of a winged deity from Pablo Bronstein’s ‘vaudeville beaux arts’ version of the Temple of Solomon on display at Waddesdon Manor.

    ‘A cipher for crazy self-projection’: why are architects so obsessed with Solomon’s Temple?

  • Commuters at Victoria station in London, August 2022

    double quotation markAll aboard the Nike Northern line? Why corporate takeovers of London’s tube are a terrible idea

    Oliver Wainwright
  • ‘Rich and resilient’ … the Ukraina cinema and concert hall.

    ‘People here are as strong as concrete’: the stunning architecture of war-torn Kharkiv

  • Pollinator Pathmaker in Human Vision 2023 Credit: Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg Ltd © Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg Ltd. Courtesy of the artist and the Design Museum

    More than Human review – a utopia of self-weaving grass and psychedelic dolphins

  • ‘As thrilling as driving a sports car’: the Tokyo capsule tower that gave pod-living penthouse chic

  • The enchanted car park: how a ruined multistorey became a garden paradise loved by lizards and dog-walkers

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