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Irene Barclay (1894–1989)

Marianna Janowicz

The work of the UK’s first female chartered building surveyor prioritised the wellbeing of some of the poorest people in the country

Post-lockdown living room

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Olympic limits: the sporting mega-event comes to town

Sven Daniel Wolfe

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‘The demands of the brief were immense’: Jennifer Frewen

Streatham Ice Arena (1931–2011): demolition postcard

Akil Scafe-Smith

Euston Station (1968–): demolition postcard

Oliver Wainwright

More essays about London

A woman seeks room in London

Migration at the margins

Caught on the commute: books written in transit

City making doesn’t have to be top down vs bottom up

Carnival collaging: Notting Hill Carnival as a constellation of culture

‘Everything you do is a political act’: Owen Hatherley’s AR Bookshelf

Camera man: race, class, and British masculinity

Richard Seifert (1910-2001)

Folio: George Finch

In the margins: the influence of the Caribbean diaspora

Out of space: changing homosexual geographies

Tortuous trajectories: the loves and lives of Modern couples

Changing places: reuse of obsolescent buildings in south London

Folio: Denys Lasdun’s model graveyard

Outrage: a toxic mix of snobbery and power governs eating in public

Comfort eating: the greasy spoon

The devil in the detail: the architecture of evidence and reconstruction of truth

Outrage: pure developer’s architecture too often forgets the value of truly public space

Pleasure principles: on the homogenisation of the modern city

Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944)

Unfair dismissal: the legacy of female architects working for London councils

Cedric Price (1934–2003)

Soane’s Ark: Building with Symbols

Outrage: future generations will laugh in horror and derision at the folly of facadism

Outrage: ‘Sites of social condensation are being dismantled, neglected or sold off to the highest bidder’

Editorial: Does it matter what it looks like?

Folio: Peter Barber’s 100 Mile City

Outrage: ‘until the Grenfell tragedy, the housing crisis has mostly been slower and more grinding’

Editorial: London’s towering inferno raises questions of principle beyond fire control

Matthew Beaumont on London: ‘Nothing fits in this city. Either the locks are too large or the key is too small’

William Burges (1827-1881)

Lewisham, the Notopian future of London

The architecture of the Big Bang

Outrage: ‘Trafalgar Place exemplifies a dash to socially cleanse valuable land in London’

Outrage: Commonwealth Institute Betrayed

‘In 20 years Inner London may really be like Paris, a wealthy centre surrounded by racialised poverty’

Notopia: who is the city for?

Interview: Julia Peyton-Jones on Serpentine pavilions and London’s skyline

Brutalism on tour

Richard MacCormac (1938-2014)

Folio: Zaha Hadid’s reimagined Leicester Square

School buildings produce culture

At the end of the Games, will London construction fizzle out like the Olympic flame?

Big reply to The Big Rethink

Grand plans are afoot in Earls Court as Terry Farrell reveals his masterplan

Wake up call: BedZED as a lesson to architects

Suburban slopes: Central Hill housing in Lambeth, London by Rosemary Stjernstedt

A Latin quarter for London

Penguin Pool in London, UK by Tecton

Browse the AR by location

London buildings

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The House of Commons in London, UK by Giles Gilbert Scott

Schools in Putney and Hammersmith by Ernő Goldfinger

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National Portrait Gallery in London, UK by Jamie Fobert Architects and Purcell

Catherine Slessor

White House School's exterior front elevation facing the street. School children are walking towards the door.

White House School in London, UK by vPPR Architects

The top floor of the Gin Stills in Gort Scott's Three Mills Studios, London

Three Mills Studios in London, UK by Gort Scott

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Small House by MOCT Studio in London, UK

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Regeneration station: Open Havelock in London, UK by Alison Crawshaw

Growing needs: Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses in London, UK by Feilden Fowles

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Revisit: Straw Bale House in London, UK by Sarah Wigglesworth Architects

Gallery redrawn: National Portrait Gallery renovation in London, UK by Jamie Fobert Architects

City stories

Waste streams across Lagos

Leading by Eixample: Barcelona, Spain

Regenerational divide: Nicosia, Cyprus

Le Havre: the beach beneath the streets

Jerusalem stone: the history and identity of Palestinian stereotomy

Cuts through Hong Kong: the spatial collage of In the Mood for Love

In the interface: unbuilding Belfast’s dividing walls

Revaluing emptiness in Chicago

From the rubble of Beirut

Ingesting architectures: the violence of breathing in parts of Joburg

Pushed to the periphery: Lisbon’s rehousing policies lose the life of the neighbourhoods they demolish

Studio canal: a portrait of Pantin

Moving costs: history and identity in Kiruna, Sweden

Invisible terrains: Jaffa’s obscured history

Becoming urban: Ger Plug-in and Innovation Hub in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia by Rural Urban Framework

String of pearls: preserving cultural heritage in Bahrain

Lights out: cities cloaked in darkness

Outrage: form follows finance

Cultural capital: the ongoing regeneration of Algiers’ Casbah

Driving the social divide: planning in Belfast reinforces the city’s segregation

The raingod’s green, dark as passion

Seeing red: racial segregation in LA’s suburbs

Off grid: MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK, by 6a Architects

Reading the city: Roland Barthes in Paris and Tokyo