Architecture
Pre-rusted steel church by Vicens + Ramos features an “explosion” of windows
London car park of “sublime beauty” at risk of demolition
Ole Scheeren’s “carved” MahaNakhon skyscraper scheduled to complete this year
BIG designs “Habitat 2.0” for Toronto
Flower Kindergarten by Jungmin Nam features curvy classrooms and colourful corridors
China moves to prevent “oversized, xenocentric and weird” architecture
New York “courtscraper” by Bjarke Ingels set to open in March
Carlo Ratti designs mile-high observation tower with a park on top
Narrow São Paulo house rebuilt for an elderly resident by Terra e Tuma
Melbourne house by Austin Maynard is deliberately half the size of its neighbours
Bjarke Ingels’ Serpentine Gallery Pavilion conceived as an “unzipped wall”
Concrete villa by Agustín Lozada has coarse walls to suit its rugged hilltop setting
“It’s about time we rethink the notion of authorship”
University of Texas architecture dean leaves post over new campus gun law
Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport to become Germany’s largest refugee camp
Enzo Eusebi builds sunken prosciutto factory in the Italian countryside
“The copy in contemporary culture is both despised and feared”
Herzog & de Meuron’s Blavatnik School of Government “inspired by parliamentary spaces”
Santiago Calatrava’s World Trade Center transit terminal to quietly open next week
All architecture needs a humanitarian approach, says Jacques Herzog
Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter creates spiky roofline for Romsdal Folk Museum in Norway
Serpentine Summer Houses include looping wooden pavilion and inverted replica building
Minority Report designer Alex McDowell applies filmmaking techniques to refugee-camp design