The Stirling prize 2015: the virtues of quiet craft
The shortlist for this year’s Stirling prize is dominated by ‘whispering’ candidates – scrupulous designs of brick and timber
architecture
Bright lights, big trees: Dutch designer imagines an ‘urban forest’
City links: Blueprints for a neighbourhood of tree houses and smiley-face signals to reduce road rage feature in this week’s best city stories
Body building: welcome to Beyoncé towers
Queen Bey’s curves have inspired a new skyscraper. But it’s by no means the only superstar-shaped building out there
Paris can teach London how to swap skyscrapers for homes
Ignore the Triangle Tower – the French capital is tackling a housing shortage by building affordable homes, converting office space and introducing rent controls
Beach cafe, billionaire’s retreat, wedding marquee: second lives of the Serpentine pavilions
Everyone from Ai Weiwei and Frank Gehry to Zaha Hadid has designed a folly for the Serpentine gallery, but what happens to these starchitect baubles after their summer in the sun?
Turner prize 2015: an end to the same-old same-old. Bring it on!
The jury of this year’s prize are doing what they should do – giving intriguing new art a platform. They’ve certainly piqued this critic’s curiosity