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Oliver Wainwright

Oliver Wainwright is the Guardian's architecture and design critic

January 2025

  • Skibidi Toilet mystery mini figures.

    Evil toilets, terror food and billionaire Squishmallows: my eye-popping day at the UK’s giant toy fair

  • Adrien Brody, Isaach De Bankol and Guy Pearce in The Brutalist.

    Backlash builds: why the architecture world hates The Brutalist

  • Blocky fun … 450 Warren.

    ‘The banks thought we were mad’: coral castles and look-at-me loos reinvent New York housing

  • Liziba station in Chongqing, where the metro passes through the eighth story of an apartment block.

    My wonder of the world
    A sprawling megacity of multi-level madness: why Chongqing in China is my wonder of the world

  • California fires: LA fire crews make progress as officials expect ‘much-needed break’ from dangerous weather – as it happened

  • ‘Criminally reckless’: why LA’s urban sprawl made wildfires inevitable – and how it should rebuild

  • Tudor psychedelia for £35 a night! Is this rescued Yorkshire pile Britain’s most thrilling holiday let?

December 2024

  • art

    2025 culture preview
    Sensual surrealism, Kiefer’s delights and Gehry’s Guggenheim: the best art and architecture shows to visit in 2025

    Anselm Kiefer’s homage to Van Gogh, Ithell Colquhoun’s seaside of surrealism and Gilbert & George fill the galleries, while the V&A opens its archives at the illustrious new East Storehouse
  • Denise Scott Brown, Las Vegas, 1968.

    ‘They wouldn’t do this to Shakespeare’: the pioneers of postmodern architecture, as seen by their son

    Jim Venturi’s new film follows his parents Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, bringing scrappy wit and colour to chilly modernism as they battle the establishment and wind-up traditionalists at the National Gallery

    • From brutalist school to space-age church: the architectural oasis deep in Trump country

    • Song, prayer and tribute mark reopening of Notre Dame cathedral – as it happened

    • Notre Dame review – glorious resurrection is as close to time travel as it gets

November 2024

  • ‘More caves and fewer goldfish bowls’ … Paul Rudolph, architect, in his 1968 pomp.

    Celebrated, reviled, reborn: Paul Rudolph, the brutalist architect with a party streak

  • Seashore Library, Aranya, China. West Elevation

    ‘In China, builders don’t look at drawings’: the architect challenging his country’s rampant urban obsession

October 2024

  • ‘These are sacred spaces’ … a residence in the village of Hășdat.

    Bring on the Vegas glitz! How Roma families are defying their persecutors with bling palaces

    Keen to show off their newfound riches, and to kick back at a society that suppressed them, Roma families are filling rural Romania with exuberant symbols of wealth – boasting gilded turrets and gleaming staircases that lead to nowhere
  • A curved, futuristic white network of tunnels

    ‘A triumph’: London’s £19bn Elizabeth line is named best new architecture in Britain

    With its futuristic panels, airy tunnels and elegantly unified design, the 73-mile addition to the tube is a worthy winner of the prestigious Stirling prize – and puts the rest of the creaking, sooty network to shame

    • ‘Like a sylvan spa!’ Inside Zurich’s staggering, revolutionary new hospital for kids

    • ‘I make architects’ dreams come true’: Hanif Kara, the magician who makes impossible buildings stay up

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

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

    It’s got winding trails, a gushing waterfall, some 7,000 trees – and room inside for 1,500 cars. We explore the astonishing Twin Hills project, which isn’t even the city’s first manmade mountainscape
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