Wednesday, October 18, 2023
As long as a jumbo and as tall as four double-deckers, the giant arts venue will host everything from dance shows to all-night raves. But can the £240m colossus put its troubled birth behin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:25PMMonday, September 19, 2022
The multihyphenate set designer has worked with Adele, Kanye West and Beyoncé – but her new project is a shrine to endangered species whose stars are pipistrelles, planthoppers and bearde…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03PMWednesday, August 25, 2021
It nurtured the likes of Helen Mirren and Zawe Ashton but its headquarters were cramped and miserable. Now a revamp has added a touch of Broadway glamour to the famous institution
A pink neo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:03AMTuesday, July 14, 2020
Transparent wraparound screens, touring deckchair pop-ups, rooftop suction devices … our writer talks to the designers rethinking theatre for the Covid age – and finds Dunoon leading the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06AMTuesday, April 16, 2019
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
As Notre Dame Cathe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:13AMWednesday, September 5, 2018
With its charred plaster walls and restored mosaic flooring, the £13m rescue of the cherished London theatre has kept thrilling traces of the 2015 fire. The result is a spatial spectacular …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24PMSunday, May 4, 2014
Breakin' Convention is back and this year we've sent architecture, film and comedy critics to see what they make of it allWhipping their elbows, popping their groins and stomping their Cater…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMMonday, December 30, 2013
Remember that buildings shouldn't burn things, windows should let in light and copying is fine – but just try not to annoy the skateboardersOliver Wainwright
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMTuesday, September 24, 2013
From kosher cooking to evenings with Kevin Spacey, JW3 focuses on Jewish culture without being expressly Jewish. And it is an ambitious space – once you get past the fortifications"I'm fed…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:21AMMonday, September 23, 2013
It is the most coveted award in British architecture. But what's it like to live or work in a building that won it? Our critic uncovers a story of leaky roofs, sweltering space-bubbles, wind…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMFriday, August 9, 2013
Researchers have developed a series of interactive wearable instruments that respond to bodily gesturesOliver Wainwright
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMWednesday, July 3, 2013
Set designer and architect who defined the rock'n'roll spectacular over the last 30 yearsHe flew Tina Turner over her audience on a huge mechanical arm, drove U2 through their arena inside a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:00PMTuesday, April 16, 2013
Haworth Tompkins' bright red timber auditorium learns from the nimble speed and agility of theatre production itselfA startling red box has landed on the South Bank, nestled near the Nationa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:31AM 
