The world’s top 10 new architecture projects

Making a virtue out of global lockdown, our critic takes a virtual tour of the world’s best new architecture projects – from a rural Vietnamese preschool to a Belgian folly and a synagogue in Paraguay

Rowan Moore’s best architecture of 2019

From hemp and cork buildings to energy-efficient council housing, the climate crisis got us thinking laterally

Read the Observer critics’ review of 2019 in full here

2019 AZ Awards: Zaha Hadid Architects’ 520 West 28th awarded in the Residential Architecture category

  2019 AZ Awards: Winning projects 520 West 28th has won the AZ Award 2019 in the Residential Architecture (multi-unit) category. This rare project is art as well as architecture. Launched in 2011 by AZURE magazine, the AZ Awards recognise excellence and innovation in design, and showcases the world’s best projects, products and ideas. Azure … Read more

Residential architecture: This is Pininfarina tower designed in image and likeness of Cyprus

  The interiors of this tower designed by Pininfarina allow the sea view from all apartments enhanced by the external glass walls making the sky and the sea entering into the apartments. Following the success achieved by Pininfarina in the residential field, the internationally renowned design house unveiled Sixty6 Tower designed for Nikhi Group. The … Read more

‘Buildings that defy categorisation’ – Arata Isozaki wins 2019 Pritzker architecture prize

The 87-year-old, known for his visionary ideas including an inflatable concert hall, wins architecture’s Nobel prize equivalent

Is This Tomorrow? review – back to the future as architecture meets art

Whitechapel Gallery, London
The Whitechapel revisits its groundbreaking 1950s exhibition, pairing architects with artists to present changing visions of what’s to come