Here’s a way to ease off the carbon: retrofit everyday objects as well as buildings, writes Rory Olcayto
Familiar Faces
Page\Park’s retrofit of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery paints as detailed a picture of the country’s cultural character as the works within
Prejudice and amateurism within the ARB board
Prejudice, stupidity, hypocrisy: the email leak has exposed harsh truths about the ARB board, writes Rory Olcayto
This, Mr Gove, is how to create a great school
If the Education Secretary is out of ideas for schools, he should read the AJ – or ring up his Irish equivalent, writes Rory Olcayto
New Court, Rothschild Bank headquarters, London, by OMA
Visible/invisible, public/private, iconic/bland: OMA’s Rothschild Bank is simultaneously contradictory, but pulls it off, writes Rory Olcayto
Exclusive interview with Chris Platt: The Mackintosh head with a ‘Glasgow voice’
In his first interview since becoming head of the Mackintosh School of Architecture, Chris Platt tells Rory Olcayto how he wants to influence Steven Holl’s controversial new campus building
2011: The year of iconus horribilis
Rory Olcayto, deputy editor
Stop trying to profit from architectural relics
Not every derelict building is a commercial opportunity, as Cardross and Battersea show, writes Rory Olcayto
Roath Lock Studios, Cardiff, by FAT and Holder Mathias Architects
FAT’s half-metre thick, clip-on facade for Cardiff’s BBC studios is a poster boy for procurement today, writes Rory Olcayto
Calling all architects: It’s time to think big
If the government refuses to consider grand schemes, then architects should do it for them, writes Rory Olcayto