Author Archives: Andrew Ayers

A heterogeneous profession, characterised by a healthy culture of smaller practices, struggles for agency in a landscape dominated by construction giants

In the face of a default response to demolish and rebuild social housing anew, Lacaton & Vassal counteract with measures to safeguard both the dwellings and the community housed in them

Radical, uncompromising, contrary: the father of fonction oblique (together with Paul Virilio) devised an architecture that was both praised for its dynamism and criticised for its appropriation of a wartime aesthetic

AR Library Commended: Antonini Darmon’s extension to the storage facility for Paris’s educational libraries both increases and futureproofs the space

Whether text and context, image and simulacrum – or just smoke and mirrors, Jean Nouvel’s architectural ambitions are no less grandiose than his legendary epicureanism 

Instantly recognisable on the city skyline, the Tribunal de Paris unites courtrooms and judicial offices in a glass ziggurat

Women in Architecture Architect of the Year 2018 shortlist: Paredes Pedrosa have transformed ancient dilapidated houses in Oropesa into two elegant family homes by the introduction of clarity, luminosity and repose

AL_A’s museum of art, architecture and technology  –MAAT – affords the community a striking outdoor room and a bridge to the Belém district of Lisbon

The Bibliothèque Alexis de Tocqueville in Caen combines four separate libraries, with the goal to encourage exchange

Architect of the Year shortlist: the swirling form of the Cité du Vin looks to reflect the brio of wine