Oliver Wainwright
Oliver Wainwright is the Guardian's architecture and design critic. Trained as an architect, he has worked for a number of practices, both in the UK and overseas, and written extensively on architecture and design for many international publications. He is also a visiting critic at several architecture schools
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The Lib Dems have made an extraordinary comeback in 2019 because of their anti-Brexit stance. Toby Helm discusses whether they are here to stay. And: Oliver Wainwright on the inclusion of social housing in this year’s Stirling prizePodcast
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America’s raciest hotel chain has turned a boring British office block into an Austin Powers-style crash pad complete with retro reception, leftie library – and rooftop baths. Groovy baby!
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How do you build the perfect town? You send for Public Practice, the initiative that’s tempting architects back into the public sector
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It may be the only good thing to emerge from the 2008 financial crisis. What do the first families to settle into Cambridge’s new co-housing development make of multigenerational living?
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5 out of 5 stars.Design Museum, London
This astounding exhibition reveals the obsessive level of genius the great director showed, whether inventing the space age – or restaging the Vietnam war in a London gas works
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The Bauhaus was born in Weimar, but was forced to flee the conservative city. Now it’s back with a centenary museum – as Germany’s far right rises again
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It mesmerised Proust, terrified Homer Simpson and gave us the Hunchback – Guardian critics celebrate Paris’s gothic masterpiece at the heart of the modern imagination
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It is a billionaires’ playground where haircuts cost $800 and high-rise duplexes go for $32m. So why does the towering colossus of Hudson Yards feel so cheap?
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Stirling prize 2019 shortlist: from a cork creation to a Teletubbies-style whisky distillery