Architecture
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Story of cities #43: how Dubai's World Trade Centre sold the city to the worldIn the 1970s, the World Trade Centre stood beyond the edge of the city and convinced the world that Dubai was open for business
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Herzog and De Meuron: Tate Modern’s architects on their radical new extensionTwenty years ago, Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron converted London’s Bankside power station into a gallery. Now they are about to unveil the Switch House
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Vagina kayaks, sunken cities and a cheeky Turner list – the week in artBacon hits Merseyside, the Panama Papers inspire ‘offshore paintings’, and we reveal African photography’s rising stars – all in your weekly art dispatch
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Story of cities #41: Soul City's failed bid to build a black-run suburbia for AmericaCivil rights activist Floyd McKissick dreamed of a southern utopia where the racially integrated community would be planned and managed by African Americans. Although the city was never completed, some traces remain
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Yale Center for British Art: deft incisions give Louis Kahn a masterful makeoverAfter a $33m, eight-year-long refurbishment, Kahn’s project has been respectfully updated – but with so much deference can you tell the difference?
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One small step for Amman: could a viral video shake up Jordan's stifled capital?An architect’s video outlining ambitious proposals for Amman’s biggest urban failure, the Jordan Gate Project, has gone viral. Has previous apathy towards the city’s lack of community life now turned into a hunger for public space?
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Thunderbolts and time travel: my journey to the cosmic heart of land artAs new film Troublemakers explores the extremes of land art, from lightning fields to satanic jetties, Alex Needham braves rattlesnakes to visit a desert observatory that lets you travel 26,000 years in time
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Poorly designed schools affecting pupils' performance, says RIBARoyal Institute of British Architects finds ‘dangerous and dilapidated’ buildings are causing children to underperform and teachers to quit
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Story of cities #39: Shenzhen – from rural village to the world's largest megalopolisWhen Leo Houng arrived in Shenzhen in 1974, it was an unremarkable Chinese settlement that ‘smelled of countryside’. Since then, he has witnessed the city rise up at a bewildering rate – with little regard for the families caught in its path
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Story of cities #38: Vancouver dumps its freeway plan for a more beautiful futureIn the 1960s, Vancouver’s historic downtown was at risk of being razed for modern road projects – only for an extraordinary protest movement to turn the tide, helping transform it into one of North America’s most ‘liveable’ cities
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Housing: rethinking inside the box…Will the young curators of the British pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale transform our ideas of what we expect from a house?
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Building on a flood plain: how to go with the flowRather than hold back the river, an Oxfordshire home allows water to flow under the house and drain back out again
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Story of cities #37: how radical ideas turned Curitiba into Brazil's 'green capital'As an architect and mayor, Jaime Lerner led the movement that transformed Curitiba into an environmentally friendly ‘laboratory for urban planning’. The secret? ‘We had to work fast to avoid our own bureaucracy’
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How Jane Jacobs changed the way we look at citiesWhen I first encountered this doyenne of urban activism, she offered one of the sharpest critiques I’d ever heard. Jane Jacobs was relentless, and stood up to anyone in her quest to understand what really makes a city
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Artist's barn damaged in Storm Desmond given £25,000 lifelineSwiss art gallery steps in to save Kurt Schwitters’ Lake District experiment in art and architecture at the suggestion of the late Zaha Hadid
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Story of cities #35: Arcosanti – the unfinished answer to suburban sprawlFour decades on, Paolo Soleri’s revolutionary Arizona desert vision of super-dense living remains a work in progress. Oliver Wainwright meets the volunteers who haven’t given up hope in his fusion of architecture and ecology
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Milton Keynes and its vibrant third sectorLetters: The development corporation and its successors understood the equal emphasis needed to develop the town’s social infrastructure
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Sightseeing: the most dazzling art and design of summer 2016Dive into underwater cities, swoon over O’Keeffe’s ravishing blooms, and swoosh down Carsten-Höller’s slides and hang out with Hockney and his friends in LA
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'What were they thinking?': your favourite demolished buildingsWhich city structures should have been saved from the wrecking ball? After our selection of lost gems, you shared your own suggestions and memories – from Delhi’s Hall of Nations to Birmingham’s Central Library
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Colonial ruins are a fitting epitaph for the British empireCommonwealth countries have little interest in preserving colonial buildings – who can blame them?
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Insider's guide to Chennai: 'Not a city you'll fall in love with at first sight'From unregulated urban planning to the city’s own version of the New York High Line, architect Vidhya Mohankumar digs beneath the many layers of Chennai
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Letter: Dame Zaha Hadid obituaryBruce Ross-Smith writes: Deyan Sudjic mentioned that Zaha Hadid “built a library” at St Antony’s College, Oxford
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Megachurches: photographing America's drab new cathedralsLisa Anne Auerbach created a ‘megazine’ of structures reminiscent of shopping malls or warehouses, hidden away from city centers, where thousands of people worship every week
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SFMOMA's new extension – a gigantic meringue with a hint of IkeaThanks to a new building designed by Snøhetta, the San Francisco gallery has more floorspace than MoMA – but the marriage of old and new is not a happy one
Palestine Museum review – a beacon of optimism on a West Bank hilltop