If women built cities, what would our urban landscape look like?

The number of women in UK architecture firms is falling, and many urbanists are worried by the ‘very, very male-dominated’ worlds of planning and construction. So how would cities differ if women designed them?

Zaha Hadid’s Tokyo Olympic stadium slammed as a ‘monumental mistake’ and a ‘disgrace to future generations’

The 2020 Olympic stadium has faced two years of widespread criticism and budget cuts. Now prominent Japanese architect Arata Isozaki has launched a blistering attack on the designs

One in every 35 Londoners is a dollar millionaire, new study shows

UK capital outstrips Tokyo and New York as millionaire capital of the world with 400,000 dollar millionaires among its residents

Shard leads Olympic Aquatics Centre in race for the Stirling prize

Other contenders for architecture award include Birmingham library, Everyman theatre in Liverpool and LSE student centre

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Parks look for new ways to meet costs – with trees, bees and subscription fees

With warnings that many of Britain’s parks are on a financial precipice, some are looking at novel ways to meet running costs

The Chinese billionaire with six months to make the world’s tallest building

Zhang Yue was the first man in China to own a private jet, and his office is modelled on the Palace of Versailles. Now, he plans to save the planet by raising the world’s tallest building in just six months. A new documentary goes behind the scenes of the great Chinese eco gold rush