Catherine Slessor

After a good deal of planning brouhaha, Renzo Piano’s Cube now looms over London Paddington – and the wider Paddington Square scheme has hugely improved rail travellers’ experience of the station

Catherine Slessor looks back at the life and work of influential architectural historian, critic, teacher and author, Joseph Rykwert, who died last week

This year’s AJ100 award for an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to architecture goes to Kate Macintosh, a determined and radical architect who has championed quality public housing

Jestico + Whiles is the winner of the AJ100 Communication Initiative of the Year 2024 Award for its work on the Greenwich Millennium Village

Catherine Slessor remembers the exuberant Julyan Wickham, known for his much-imitated restaurants and colourful urbanism

Cooling towers such as those at Fiddler's Ferry power station in Cheshire are disappearing, leaving Britain on the brink of losing a unique part of its industrial heritage, argues Catherine Slessor 

This shouty book’s arguments against ‘boring’ buildings are too wafer-thin to obscure its true aim of self-promotion, argues Catherine Slessor. Photomontages by Maria Rodriguez

Michael Hopkins, who has died at the age of 88, developed a very English type of High-Tech and was clasped to the bosom of the British Establishment, writes Catherine Slessor 

Catherine Slessor looks back at the life of celebrated Indian architect, planner, and teacher Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi

Architecture critic Catherine Slessor gives her verdict on this year's RIBA Stirling Prize shortlist and wonders whether the time has finally come for Níall McLaughlin to win the UK's biggest architectural award