2+ hour, 26+ min ago   (324+ words) A bloated ballroom, a six-storey military HQ, a helipad-cum-cocktail patio, a gilded angel on a giant arch honouring himself … our architecture critic deplores the decorator-in-chief’s mutilation of Washington The bloated White House ballroom is the most emblematic project of Trump’s…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (448+ words) ‘The black cloud emerged from a grate in the street. I guess something underground was on fire. It was hilariously cinematic – just one of those eerie, spontaneous things that happen in a city’This image was taken in 2011 or 2012, just after…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (813+ words) The European Prize for Urban Public Space’s shortlist highlights projects helping people cope with climate crisis In the words of Joni Mitchell, the planners of many urban centres around the world “paved paradise and put up a parking lot”. The…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1243+ words) A collection of previously stored away posters will be displayed at a new exhibition to mark 25 years since the deadliest terrorist attack in US history He saw the first one on September 11 itself. “Missing”, said a hastily designed poster on…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (105+ words) For more than a decade Caleb Stein has been photographing a communal swimming creek in Poughkeepsie, New York. Returning every summer, he documented the community at a timeless spot. He talks about the people he has metDown by the Hudson…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (900+ words) What should we do with Trump’s monstrous architectural legacy? The Guardian What should we do with Trump’s monstrous architectural legacy? Questions over Trump’s ballroom and other structures might not feel urgent. But when his reign ends, Trumpism must be repudiated…...