• Sydney’s redeveloped Barangaroo Reserve opens to the public

    26 August 2015

    Barangaroo Reserve, Sydney’s latest shoreline park, opened to the public on Sunday 22 August 2015.

  • Listen – Peter Murray

    24 August 2015

    London cyclists are being killed at a rate of more than one a month: Peter Murray argues that better design thinking and more investment in the physical infrastructure for cyclists is desperately needed, though he is beginning to see a positive change in attitudes. Peter Murray is the chairman of New London Architecture and a founder of Blueprint

  • Sandcastles on Mars

    21 August 2015

    DesignCurial speaks with internationally acclaimed space architects about future extra terrestrial housing technologies

  • Hanging Gardens of Medusa: The first stratospheric sky garden with proto life

    20 August 2015

    Professor of experimental architecture Rachel Armstrong has created the first stratospheric sky garden with proto life

  • Strata and Surprises in Sauerbruch Hutton's Latest Building

    20 August 2015

    In a small Rhineland town, the Hager Group has a bright, airy new building to facilitate communications within the company and with their customers. Herbert Wright visited the Sauerbruch Hutton-designed Hager Forum, to discover that it stratifies time and conceals the unexpected

  • Margate’s Phoenix – Margate’s Dreamland reopens

    17 August 2015

    From opening as a restaurant and dance hall in 1863, to finally closing — though not for good — in 2005, it’s been quite a ride for Margate’s Dreamland. The first phase of the new £28m development, which includes £18m of public funding, is now complete and the fun park is pulling in the punters again. Project designer Wayne Hemingway gives us a personal take on the journey, so far...

  • A House for Essex by Grayson Perry and FAT Architecture

    17 August 2015

    Created by artist Grayson Perry in collaboration with FAT Architecture, A House for Essex is ‘a Taj Mahal on the Stour’, its interiors charting the life of Essex everywoman Julie Cope, and is her final resting place. Commissioned by Alain de Botton and joining Living Architecture’s portfolio of holiday lets, the building is not only FAT’s final work, but a suitably ‘bonkers’ addition to the north Essex landscape

  • 'Architecture for Dogs': The rug designed for Labradors

    14 August 2015

    Sink your teeth into this

  • Nature Concert Hall

    13 August 2015

    Blending music, nature and education, discover the pavilion for the Nature Concert Hall event

  • New Maggie’s Centre by Thomas Heatherwick receives planning permission

    5 August 2015

    Heatherwick’s new design looks like an oversized cluster of pot plants…