Astragal

To the Design Museum, where David Chipperfield delivered a lively Conran Lecture on architect marginalisation and other subjects

The University of California, Santa Barbara is inviting applications for a major new student accommodation scheme. Does it spell the end of ‘Dormzilla’?

An unexpected and touching tribute was paid to post-war architecture champion Elain Harwood, who passed away in April

A showpiece inflatable sculpture installed at St John’s Gate for Clerkenwell Design Week fell a bit flat

Astragal spies an unusual proposal for a Thameside entertainment, and wonders at the ballooning budget for the Museum of London’s move to Smithfield

Doggies’ homes, dangerous hooch and nostalgia for the Empire Tower

Actor Keanu Reeves is to take on what could be his most challenging role to date – playing an architect

Patrik Schumacher is a busy man. Not content with running a 700-person company as principal of Zaha Hadid Architects, the German architect is also publishing a ‘serialised treatise’ about anarcho-capitalist revolution, which he advocates. The first instalment, as subscribers to Schumacher’s newsletter will know, was an 8,000-word essay ruminating on…

This month Foster + Partners said it would stop working in Russia, as it ‘deplored’ the country’s invasion of Ukraine. The announcement came a week after similar statements by Zaha Hadid Architects and David Chipperfield Architects

Property developer U+I is in hot water down Greenwich way over a statue that just happens to be a dead ringer for one of its own directors. Plans for OMA’s Morden Wharf include a flat cap-wearing ‘everyman’ supposed to celebrate the ‘human story’ of dock workers. But sneak previews of…