Oliver Wainwright is the Guardian's architecture and design critic
July 2024
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
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
The broken years: Tory Britain 2010-24
How a disastrous Tory policy blew up the housing market
Change? If only. Labour’s housing plans are built on flimsy foundations, fantasies and fudge
Oliver Wainwright
‘A show you want to pick up and fondle’: Assemble electrify the RA’s Summer Exhibition
‘Public vandalism’: M&S wants to flatten its art deco flagship store – here are six alternative options
‘I plumbed in our bath – and it works!’ The DIY diehards who built 36 affordable homes from scratch
May 2024
‘Our parents did all the hard work. We don’t have to’: China’s seaside haven for the ‘lying flat’ generation
Romans in togas, shepherds in saunas and the Bridgerton garden in bloom … my wild day at Chelsea flower show
How the world could have looked: the most spectacular buildings that were never made
‘An incredible phallic landmark!’ The grain silo gallery, a gift from the trillion dollar man
‘We’ve got drone swarms, dirty bombs, radar-jamming’: the fake town where America practises for war
Tunnels, treehouses and tensegrity towers: landmarks in protest architecture, from UCLA to Hong Kong
A 007 paradise – or lads holiday in Marbella? Inside Aston Martin’s lavish Miami penthouses
April 2024
‘One of the most racist things I’ve ever seen’: how RIBA is decolonising its HQ
‘It should feel like an extension of the living room’: radical study centre is named best building in Europe
‘This one’s like a castle!’ The hunt for the world’s wildest, daftest and most beautiful hedges
Let’s move to Disney town! Will life in its 2,000 themed homes be a dream or a nightmare?
March 2024
Enzo Mari review – the anarchic Italian at war with design world ‘pornography’
Design Museum, London From his steel-bar fruit bowl to his troop of wooden animals, the combative creator railed against ‘the rampant consumption of luxury furniture’ – despite his own hefty price tags
