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Jay Merrick

Jay Merrick is Architecture Critic of The Independent. His novel, Horse Latitudes, was published by Fourth Estate in 2000.

Faithful hold candles during a "Path of light" procession between Notre Dame Cathedral during the four-day visit in France of Pope Benedict XVI in 2008
Europe

Notre Dame fire proof truly great architecture can be hallucinatory

Daydreams, by Patrick Dougherty, sees a fake 19th-century schoolhouse overtaken by willow trees
Americas

‘Portals to another dimension’: Weird happenings in the Wild West

Big picture: The new Harley Gallery
Architecture

​The Harley Gallery: Pleasing and problematic

Bayley delivers 20 death-drive vignettes of fame and fatality
Reviews

Death Drive by Stephen Bayley: Exploration of the celebrity car crash

Keep afloat: Wuzhen
Asia

Exploring Wuzhen, China’s extraordinary conservation project

View of Lewes, Sussex from Lewes castle
Home News

Lewes residents fight back over redevelopment plans

The Broad’s outer shell resembles a stretched and distorted waffle; visitors can see into the huge storage vault
News

Los Angeles has a new powerhouse of art as The Broad Museum opens

Burntwood School in Wandsworth, designed by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
Architecture

Riba Stirling Prize 2015 shortlist revealed: Entries for British

A person walks on June 3, 2013 in a passageway of the MuCEM, the Museum of Civilisations from Europe and the Mediterranean in Marseille on the eve of its opening by the French President
Architecture

Why concrete is still best for stunning architecture

Light reading: night-time in the Capital
Reviews

At Night by Dixe Wills, book review: Nature, darkness, ripping yarns,

Spanish architects Lucia Cano (R) and Jose Selgas pose by their Serpentine pavilion structure
Architecture

Serpentine Pavilion 2015: Spanish architects create most playful

The ‘Sky-Reflector Net’, built into the Fulton Centre’s dome, funnels light below ground
Architecture

Fulton Centre hub in Manhattan named Building of the Year thanks to

The 12-storey offices at 5 Broadgate in the City of London. The 67,000 square metre space will house 5,400 UBS staff
Home News

5 Broadgate: Inside the 'groundscraper' set to become the City's new

Home News

5 Broadgate: Inside the 'groundscraper' set to become the City's new

The 12-storey offices at 5 Broadgate in the City of London. The 67,000 square metre space will house 5,400 UBS staff
Zaha Hadid’s new Daliesque library and archive building at St Antony College, Oxford
Architecture

Zaha Hadid’s modernist library inspires shock and awe in Oxford

Playing to the gallery: the Whitney Museum of American Art will house 600 works when it opens
Architecture

Whitney Museum of American Art: Renzo Piano's picture palace is a new

Shelf life: Oxford’s new Weston Library
News

New Bodleian Library has radical modernist makeover

Shelf life: Oxford’s new Weston Library
News

New Bodleian Library has radical modernist makeover

Shelf life: Oxford’s new Weston Library
News

New Bodleian Library has radical modernist makeover

Northampton's Greyfriars bus station is demolished
Architecture

Northampton Greyfriars: Watch one of the Britain's starkest examples

Zaha Hadid’s planned apartment block in West 28th, New York
Architecture

Battle of the skies: London and New York compete for starchitects

Country house, Warwickshire (Robert Adam): The stone-and-stucco mansion will be set within grounds that include native wildflower meadows, new woodland, an orchard and some ponds
Home News

England's new mansions: monstrous or superb?

Architecture

Dundee: pushing the boat out as a cultural powerhouse

Reach for the sky: the plans for the Guggenheim Helsinki
Architecture

Guggenheim Helsinki: Shortlisted designs for art museum revealed

The Complexo do Alemao favela in Rio de Janeiro is a good example of urban planning, says a leading scientist
News

Could this favela be the blueprint for future cities?

The new Fondation Louis Vuitton in the Jardin d'Acclimatation in Paris
Architecture

Crazy and tender? Frank Gehry's new Paris mega gallery The Fondation

Library of Birmingham
Architecture

Riba Stirling Prize: LSE's Saw Swee Hock Student Centre makes art of

The Complexo do Alemao favela in Rio de Janeiro is a good example of urban planning, says a leading scientist
News

Could this favela be the blueprint for future cities?

The new Fondation Louis Vuitton in the Jardin d'Acclimatation in Paris
Architecture

Crazy and tender? Frank Gehry's new Paris mega gallery The Fondation

Library of Birmingham
Architecture

Riba Stirling Prize: LSE's Saw Swee Hock Student Centre makes art of

News

Sculptor defends Lego show 'the Art of the Brick'

News

Sculptor defends Lego show 'the Art of the Brick'

The Bombay Saphire distillery’s botanical glasshouses have been created by Thomas Heatherwick
Architecture

Thomas Heatherwick creates gin palace with a fantastical Willy Wonka

The multi-level concrete diving stage now stands in a garden centre
Architecture

High and dry: unused diving board given Grade II status

Eliasson with 'Colour Experiment No 57' (2014)
Features

Artist Olafur Eliasson's latest large-scale works are inspired by the

The Glasgow School of Art – designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Voices

Glasgow's Mackintosh building: A radical and thrilling icon of design

The Glasgow School of Art – designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Voices

Glasgow's Mackintosh building: A radical and thrilling icon of design

This Britain

‘Oldest railway station in the world’ threatened by Network Rail

Reviews

Concretopia: a Journey around the Rebuilding of Postwar Britain By

The FAT collective (left to right): Sean Griffiths, Charles Holland and Sam Jacob
Architecture

FAT’s all folks: Architecture’s biggest jokers sign off in style

Simon Callow, here at Riverside Studios, backs their redevelopment
Architecture

The Hammersmith Riviera’s case of cultural vandalism?

Sir Michael and Lady Patricia Hopkins’ 'High Tech' house
Architecture

The Brits Who Built the Modern World and 49b - the house built by High

Architects Peter St John and Adam Caruso have revitalised The Tate's entrance, cafe and gallery spaces in a £45 million refurbishment project
Comment

Tate Britain's redesign: It may not be cool but it’s restrained, and

Tate Britain's new lower level rotunda. Courtesy Caruso St John and Tate
Architecture

Tate Britain unveils £45m refurbishment

Interior shot of Bishop Edward King Chapel, Ripon College, Cuddesdon
Architecture

The sacred wow-factor! Take a look at the best churches from recent

Curve your enthusiasm: the Serpentine Sackler Gallery in Hyde Park
Architecture

The new Serpentine Sackler Gallery: A modern classic takes shape

Remembrance of times past: Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace at Hyde Park in 1851
Reviews

Book review: The Memory Palace: A Book of Lost Interiors, By Edward

The Burj Khalifa in Dubai
Comment

Skyscrapers are the architectural equivalent of penis extensions

Comment

Skyscrapers are the architectural equivalent of penis extensions

The Burj Khalifa in Dubai
Commentators

Is this the last hurrah for modern bookish bigness?

Richard Rodgers: Inside the mind of a political visionary
Features

Richard Rodgers: Inside the mind of a political visionary

Park Hill Phase 1 - Hawkins Brown and Studio Egret West, Sheffield
Features

RIBA's Stirling Prize: For architecture's biggest gong, small is

Is there a cooler architect in Britain than Hugh Broughton?
Features

Hugh Broughton's moving castle

Is there a cooler architect in Britain than Hugh Broughton?
Features

Hugh Broughton's moving castle

Reviews

Cities Are Good for You, By Leo Hollis

The Serpentine Gallery 2013 Pavilion, designed by Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto, in central London's Kensington Gardens
News

Cloud of steel: Sou Fujimoto's temporary pavilion for London's

The pinnacle of The Shard
Comment

The lights are off and there’s no one home

News

Art by Damon Albarn's father is anything but Blurry

Commentators

Starchitect’s Maze peace centre forgot the Irish

Central St Martins new campus at Granary Square, King's Cross, are glinting with a 542-metre- long artwork.
News

Vinyl meets Victorian London to become Op Art

A depiction of a guardian angel at Arnos Vale cemetery in Bristol
Reviews

How to Read a Graveyard, By Peter Stanford

Norman Foster's interest in art surfaced quite early on
Features

The arty side of Norman Foster in France

Peter O'Toole tending the bar
Features

Soho's bohemian past remembered

St James's Gateway building is London's newest startling building
Features

A new prospect for Piccadilly: St James's Gateway building is London's

The Sagrada Familia church in Barcelona
Features

What makes a cult building?

Features

What makes a cult building?

The Sagrada Familia church in Barcelona
Petter Stordalen and the staff of The Thief hotel in Oslo
Hotels

A night with Andy Warhol: Oslo hotel The Thief takes art very

The monument of Walter Scott in Glasgow's George Square
Architecture

Robert Burns is the topic of heated debate in Glasgow's George Square

News

Photography: Master builders

Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer looks at drawings for a project of two cities in Senegal, Africa in 1992. He was one of the world's most famous architects, and is particularly beloved in Brazil
Obituaries

Oscar Niemeyer: The last of the 20th century’s great heroes of

Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer looks at drawings for a project of two cities in Senegal, Africa in 1992. He was one of the world's most famous architects, and is particularly beloved in Brazil
Obituaries

Oscar Niemeyer: The last of the 20th century’s great heroes of

Reviews

Why We Build, By Rowan Moore. Picador, £20

Glass act: the Astrup Fearnley Museum in Oslo
Architecture

London's got the Shard – Oslo has the Comb-over

Comment

Until the virtues of sport are accepted in our state education system,

Back to the future: The Pierresvives building in Montpellier
Architecture

Beyond bricks and mortar: Zaha Hadid's latest structure is impressive

A piece by Norman Foster at the Venice Architecture Biennale
Architecture

Banging techno architecture? It’s all happening in Venice

Architecture

Observations: Intelligent anarchy for the UK

Architecture

Architecture: The £500m first step to 'Spaceship Earth'

andout photo dated 02/05/12 of a view of the ArcelorMittal Orbit during light testing last night. The London Legacy Development Corporation lit up the ArcelorMittal Orbit last night as it tested new lighting added to the UK's largest sculpture. The visitor attraction will be lit by 250 colour spot lights that can be individually controlled to produce a stunning digital combination of static and animated effects to bring the 114.5m Anish Kapoor and Cecil Balmond designed structure to life. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Thursday May 3, 2012. The energy efficient LEDs will be positioned in areas including the external spiral staircase, the looping lattices, the canopy and viewing platforms areas. The structure will be lit during the Games and will be a beacon of the future Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park when it reopens as a visitor attraction after the Games. The ArcelorMittal Orbit will be owned by the London Legacy Development Corporation when completed in the coming weeks. It will then be licensed to LOCOG for Games-time use before being operated by the Legacy Corporation after the Games as a key attraction in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. See PA story OLYMPICS Sculpture. Photo credit should read: The London Legacy Development Corporation /PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the
Reviews

How England Made the English: From Hedgerows to Heathrow, By Harry

Architect and TV presenter Kevin McCloud
Architecture

Architecture's Oscars: Kevin McCloud and Alain de Botton could be

Features

The Photographers' Gallery: A building that extols the calm virtues of

Hole truth: An artist's impressions of the forthcoming Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in Hyde Park, London
Features

Memories of the far pavilions: A sneak preview of this year's offbeat

News

Observations: Outdoor performers to use their own shell-likes

Insights: Construction work at the One World Trade Center in New York
Reviews

To Forgive Design, Understanding Failure, By Henry Petroski

Maidstone Museum and Bentlif Art Gallery's new extension designed by Hugh Broughton
Features

Maidstone Museum and Bentlif Art Gallery's new extension is a modern

Features

The fast show: Italy's Enzo Ferrari Museum is a fitting memorial to

Designed to last: an E-Type Jaguar
Culture

British postwar design: Immaculate conceptions

Maidstone Museum and Bentlif Art Gallery's new extension designed by Hugh Broughton
Features

Maidstone Museum and Bentlif Art Gallery's new extension is a modern

Features

The fast show: Italy's Enzo Ferrari Museum is a fitting memorial to

Designed to last: an E-Type Jaguar
Culture

British postwar design: Immaculate conceptions

Features

Jerwood Gallery: A new battle of Hastings

Obituaries

Robert Elwall: Acclaimed historian of architectural photography

Features

Ready for their close-up: The Near and the Elsewhere exhibition

Features

Syrian film festival is the reel deal

Capital gain: the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh, recently reopened after a dazzling modernisation
Features

The world's first portrait gallery gets a facelift

Extravagance personified: Serra's 7 soars out of the Bay of Doha
Architecture

The magnificent '7' adds an edge to Doha's gloss

Features

Heine produces a shark's tale with real bite

In tune: Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
Architecture

Architecture that hits the high notes

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