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Oliver Wainwright

Oliver Wainwright is the Guardian's architecture and design critic

October 2024

  • Fake noods … ramen replicas displayed in a restaurant window. Credit: Masuda Yoshirо̄ for Japan House

    Looks Delicious! review: a mind-boggling banquet of replica Japanese food

    This mouthwatering show celebrates Japan’s fine art of creating delectable duplicates – the work of craftspeople since the 1920s, all intended to tempt customers into restaurants

September 2024

  • Nicknamed Nipple Mountains … Shanghai’s Twin Hills.

    Is this a mountain? A multistorey car park? Or both? Inside Shanghai’s audacious £225m summit

  • ‘We are essentially devoted to the study of what you would now call memes’ … the Warburg.

    Occult? Try upstairs! Inside the world’s weirdest library, now open to the public

  • ‘Iconic gateway’? … the redesigned Old Street roundabout in east London.

    Total bollards: the iconic ‘eco-Blade Runner’ roundabout that became a grim £132m ‘abomination’

  • A wealth of inspiration … Te Aho A Māui sculpture in Wellington, by Thompson.Wellington.

    A genius in pink jandals: Rewi Thompson, the Māori architect who shocked his neighbours

  • ‘Professional buck-passers’: why the excoriating Grenfell report was right to damn architects

  • ‘There’s a lot to be built still’: the architect Mariam Issoufou on excavating the past to build Africa’s future

August 2024

  • A render of Annabelle Selldorf’s redesign for the Sainsbury Wing.

    Monstrous carbuncles to talking columns: the National Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing is still a controversy magnet

  • From left to right; Installation view of Jasleen Kaur, Alter Altar, Vincent Van Gogh Self-Portrait, Mike Kelley as The Banana Man

    Autumn arts preview 2024
    From Van Gogh to Le Va, Rego to the Renaissance: the best exhibitions for autumn 2024

  • Come on in, the water’s lovely … Sandkaj harbour bath is one of several architect-designed options for public swimming in Copenhagen, and the water quality is monitored on a dedicated app.

    Splashing in the Seine, diving in the Danube: the drive to make cities swimmable

  • Nek Chand Saini’s Rock Garden of Chandigarh.

    ‘What they threw away, I used’: the story behind Nek Chand’s 25-acre outsider art masterpiece

July 2024

  • Architect's visualisation of the proposed development at 1 Undershaft in the City of London. DBOX is a global marketing and communications agency specialising in property and architecture. From our studios in Los Angeles, Miami, New York, London, Budapest, Lviv and Hong Kong we have delivered highly successful campaigns and acquired valuable knowledge of HNWI and multi-lingual audiences throughout Europe, the Middle East, China, Southeast Asia and the Americas.

    The City of London’s tallest skyscraper could look like a toilet seat in the sky – and that’s not even the worst thing about it

    Oliver Wainwright
  • A colossal project sees 195 flats reborn … Park Hill housing estate, transformed by Mikhail Riches, on the Sterling prize shortlist.

    Britain’s best new building: can a tiny dairy farm beat the epic Elizabeth line?

  • The Crespin and Dufayel department store.

    Paris’s department stores transformed urban life. What can they teach today’s struggling shops?

  • Skeleton staff … Fern, the new bronze replica of Dippy, oversees the garden.

    ‘You travel five million years a metre’: inside the Natural History Museum’s mind-boggling new garden

  • Plastic-bottle seats and wooden pools: can Paris deliver the leanest, greenest Olympics yet?

  • My bricklayer’s gone viral! Why construction workers are the new social media stars

  • Barbie: The Exhibition review – the wonder doll’s evolution, from Gehry homes to ‘gay Ken’

June 2024

  • Labour leader Keir Starmer takes a selfie during a visit to Bathgate in Scotland.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Starmer says he would not let SNP hold new independence referendum or lift veto on gender recognition bill – as it happened

  • A 3D graphic of a crumpled and torn illustration of a new-build house

    The broken years: Tory Britain 2010-24
    How a disastrous Tory policy blew up the housing market

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