Author Archives: Rob Wilson

Funded by luxury housing on once public land, the redevelopment of London’s Commonwealth Institute reveals a twisted perception of public benefit

It may be an annexe to an annexe, but this is definitely a case of tail wagging dog

A brooding black box with a roof that can be dramatically flung open to the elements makes for a versatile theatre

Wrapped in a gauzily translucent skin, Barozzi Veiga’s Filharmonia is a ghostly and austere insertion in a variegated Polish townscape

The 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall has been marked by official memorials, but also by public nostalgia for a city losing its soul to capitalism, writes Rob Wilson

The ghosts of Stuttgart’s past gather in this palimpsest of historical layers, drawn together in a building of unusual inclusiveness to form a new headquarters for the Protestant Church in Germany

While Berlin may for a time have gained the moniker of ‘hippest city on the planet’, it seems to have become less lovable and liveable for many of those who live there

A detached slab of marble apparently hovers above six columns in the centrepiece of the Polish Pavilion - a seemingly impossible hallucination that recreates the Adolf Szyszko-Bohusz 1937 funereal monument

Collecting together simplistic models of over 200 parliament buildings, the Austrian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale confronts architecture’s relationship with politics and power at its most basic level

The hermetic potential of the archive finds its ultimate expression in this tower of blank brick on Duisburgʼs waterfront