‘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
The RIBA
Stirling prize 2019 shortlist: from a cork creation to a Teletubbies-style whisky distillery
Energy efficiency is a priority this year as a railway station, visitor centre, social housing project and opera house vie for the RIBA award for British building of the year
Norman Foster’s Bloomberg office in London wins Stirling prize
European HQ sees off Tate St Ives extension to 2018 prize with environmentally friendly design
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
The top 10 architecture and design events of 2017
It was a year that celebrated new dawns. From plywood to postmodernism, from the return of council housing to a Cornish art gallery, our critic picks his highlights
Mies’s Mansion House Square: the best building London never had?
Mies van der Rohe’s plans for an office tower in the City were scuppered by Prince Charles’ criticism and Margaret Thatcher’s fear of new public space – yet this tale has as much to do with shifts in public opinion against modernist architecture