Architect Nicholas Grimshaw wins RIBA gold medal
The designer of the Eden Project and Waterloo station’s international terminal awarded the UK’s highest accolade for architecture
Cities
‘Five years ago there was nothing’: inside Duqm, the city rising from the sand
Oman’s sparsely inhabited coast of fishing villages and Bedouin camps is being transformed into industrial city with port, luxury hotels and housing for 111,000
City of London’s third tallest skyscraper, The Diamond, revealed
Tower will be able to accommodate more than 6,000 workers with free public viewing gallery
Build your own Adjaye: starchitects design catalogue homes
Want a home designed by a top architect on an affordable budget? Entrepreneurs Cube Haus may be moving in on your neighbourhood, with the help of David Adjaye and more
Balkrishna Doshi, 90, wins Pritzker prize for architecture
The Le Corbusier disciple, who harnessed modernism to Indian culture, has been praised for an architecture “that is serious, never flashy or a follower of trends”
Not the end of The World: the return of Dubai’s ultimate folly
Underwater bedrooms, ‘Lohan Island’ and snow all year round – a decade after it was scuppered by the financial crash, the fantasy archipelago of 300 artificial ‘countries’ is back in business. Has anybody learned anything?