‘Toxic dispute’ over Zaha Hadid’s £100m estate finally settled
Court case at end of four-year feud hears contested allegations of financial mismanagement and ‘clandestine relationships’ between practice principal and junior staff
Oliver Wainwright
An MDF bookcase for £12,000? The jolting genius of design superstudio Memphis
The high-voltage style, comic-strip colours and eye-watering price tags of this Italian collective changed the world of design – what better place for an exhibition than modernist Milton Keynes?
‘This is the Everest of zero carbon’ – inside York’s green home revolution
The city plans to build Britain’s biggest zero-carbon housing project, boasting 600 homes in car-free cycling paradises full of fruit trees and allotments. When will the rest of the UK catch up?
‘Courage, elegance, grit’: architect David Adjaye makes history by winning RIBA award
For the first time in its 173-year history, RIBA awards its gold medal to a black architect – and his best, and strangest, work may be yet to come
Bamboo airports and psychedelic oil refineries: Richard Rogers’ thrilling legacy
The visionary architect behind some of the world’s favourite landmarks – and some of its most expensive housing – is hanging up his pencil. Our critic assesses his impact
Seasteading – a vanity project for the rich or the future of humanity?
Beloved by Silicon Valley tycoons and tyranny-fearing libertarians, are cities atop the waves Earth’s next frontier?