<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title><![CDATA[Architecture - Newslocker]]></title><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/</link><atom:link rel="self" href="https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/rss/" /><atom:link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com" /><description><![CDATA[Find your latest Architecture news with just one click. Don't miss out on anything happening in your profession!]]></description><language>en-uk</language><copyright>Copyright (C) 2026 newslocker.com</copyright><lastBuildDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 06:00:00 +0100</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[‘A woman screams from a high balcony: “Help me! I’m freezing to death!”’ – novelist James Meek returns to Kyiv]]></title><description><![CDATA[Stepping off the night train, full of memories of his life there three decades ago, the writer finds a changed city fighting for survivalMy first flat in Kyiv was a couple of metro stops outside the city centre, just opposite Volodymyrskyy market, in a nondescript mid-20th century block. The lease was arranged by post. It took me five days to drive there from Edinburgh in an old Polo in November 1991. Finding my way to Kyiv was easy &ndash; one road from Calais takes you straight there &ndash; b]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-woman-screams-from-a-high-balcony-help-me-im-freezing-to-death-novelist-james-meek-returns-to-kyiv/</link><pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-woman-screams-from-a-high-balcony-help-me-im-freezing-to-death-novelist-james-meek-returns-to-kyiv/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘The sky’s the limit’: Newcastle Art Gallery unveils its ‘divisive’ $48m expansion with a blockbuster opening show]]></title><description><![CDATA[Now the largest public gallery in NSW outside of Sydney, NAG&rsquo;s new exhibition marries big names with local artists &ndash; and celebrates a changing cityGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailOn Friday night, the Newcastle Art Gallery (NAG) is throwing open its doors and filling the road and park with giant fluffy doughnuts, live music, dancing and art in a free-for-all street party &ndash; themed &ldquo;industrial disco&rdquo; &ndash; that has been 16 years in the making.For the NAG t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-skys-the-limit-newcastle-art-gallery-unveils-its-divisive-48m-expansion-with-a-blockbuster-opening-show/</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-skys-the-limit-newcastle-art-gallery-unveils-its-divisive-48m-expansion-with-a-blockbuster-opening-show/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Guardian view on saving Westminster: parliament should leave London | Editorial]]></title><description><![CDATA[The long-overdue refurbishment could be an ideal opportunity for Britain to spread power to other parts of the UK, and send a powerful messageMPs and peers face a looming choice: stay put or move out to allow billions of pounds of urgent repairs to the crumbling Palace of Westminster. That was the conclusion of a report from MPs, peers and lay members on the restoration and renewal client board this month. The palace, rebuilt after a fire destroyed it in 1834, is falling apart. There have been 3]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-guardian-view-on-saving-westminster-parliament-should-leave-london-editorial/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 19:38:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-guardian-view-on-saving-westminster-parliament-should-leave-london-editorial/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Six great reads: dating in later life; a lost Amazon van, ‘gong bath’ freezers, and Toni Morrison]]></title><description><![CDATA[Need something brilliant to read this weekend? Here are six of our favourite pieces from the last seven days Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/six-great-reads-dating-in-later-life-a-lost-amazon-van-gong-bath-freezers-and-toni-morrison/</link><pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 07:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/six-great-reads-dating-in-later-life-a-lost-amazon-van-gong-bath-freezers-and-toni-morrison/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Guardian view on the Southbank Centre: ministers must support innovation in the present as well as the past | Editorial]]></title><description><![CDATA[The decision to grant listed-building status to the brutalist arts complex was bold. Now artists need support to match itThe granting of Grade II-listed building status to the brutalist concrete Southbank Centre, comprising the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Hayward Gallery and Purcell Room, is a bold embrace by the government of this London landmark. It is also timely. Seventy-five years ago, the 1951 Festival of Britain transformed the South Bank. Of its buildings, only the Royal Festival Hall remains.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-guardian-view-on-the-southbank-centre-ministers-must-support-innovation-in-the-present-as-well-as-the-past-editorial/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 18:51:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-guardian-view-on-the-southbank-centre-ministers-must-support-innovation-in-the-present-as-well-as-the-past-editorial/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘A joyful day’: final piece of Sagrada Familia’s central tower put in place]]></title><description><![CDATA[Completion of glass cross brings Antoni Gaud&iacute;&rsquo;s church to maximum final height of 172.5m, 144 years after work beganThe final piece of the central tower of Barcelona&rsquo;s Sagrada Familia has been laid in place, bringing the church to its maximum final height 144 years after work began.After several days when it has been too windy to work, the upper section of the 17 metre-high four-sided steel and glass cross was winched into position at 11am on Friday, completing the tower dedic]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-joyful-day-final-piece-of-sagrada-familias-central-tower-put-in-place/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:09:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-joyful-day-final-piece-of-sagrada-familias-central-tower-put-in-place/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘A safe space to come and just be’: the radical, utopian return of Britain’s youth clubs]]></title><description><![CDATA[After a decade of austerity closed more than 1,000 centres, the government has promised &pound;500m to renew youth services. We tour a glossy new venue in Preston &ndash; and a girls-only one in LondonPreston, Lancashire is no stranger to trailblazing architecture. The city&rsquo;s bus station, the largest in Europe when it opened in 1969, is a brutalist masterpiece. Next month, a new public building opens opposite the bus station built with similar aspirations to transform local lives: a youth]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-safe-space-to-come-and-just-be-the-radical-utopian-return-of-britains-youth-clubs/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 17:05:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/a-safe-space-to-come-and-just-be-the-radical-utopian-return-of-britains-youth-clubs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hundred-year reveal: Catalonian chalet confirmed as Gaudí work in centenary year]]></title><description><![CDATA[Xalet del Catllar&agrave;s contains elements of architect&rsquo;s naturalistic style, expressed in works such as Park G&uuml;ell and Sagrada Fam&iacute;liaAn elegant modernist building in the mountains north of Barcelona, originally constructed to house engineers establishing a nearby mine, has been confirmed as a work of Antoni Gaud&iacute;, Catalonia&rsquo;s most celebrated and distinctive architect.The Xalet del Catllar&agrave;s, about 80 miles from Barcelona in the county of Bergued&agrave;,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/hundred-year-reveal-catalonian-chalet-confirmed-as-gaud-work-in-centenary-year/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 17:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/hundred-year-reveal-catalonian-chalet-confirmed-as-gaud-work-in-centenary-year/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hundred-year reveal: Catalan chalet confirmed as Gaudí work in centenary year]]></title><description><![CDATA[Xalet del Catllar&agrave;s contains elements of architect&rsquo;s naturalistic style, expressed in works such as Park G&uuml;ell and Sagrada Fam&iacute;liaAn elegant modernist building in the mountains north of Barcelona, originally constructed to house engineers establishing a nearby mine, has been confirmed as a work of Antoni Gaud&iacute;, Catalonia&rsquo;s most celebrated and distinctive architect.The Xalet del Catllar&agrave;s, about 80 miles from Barcelona in the county of Bergued&agrave;,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/hundred-year-reveal-catalan-chalet-confirmed-as-gaud-work-in-centenary-year/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 17:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/hundred-year-reveal-catalan-chalet-confirmed-as-gaud-work-in-centenary-year/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cardboard crazy! Scavenger genius Shigeru Ban on building cathedrals and quake shelters with paper]]></title><description><![CDATA[From high-end boutiques to housing in disaster zones with beer-crate foundations, the Japanese architect creates with things people throw away. What will his distillery in whisky&rsquo;s holy land look like?&lsquo;I don&rsquo;t like waste,&rdquo; says Shigeru Ban. It&rsquo;s a simple statement &ndash; yet it encapsulates everything about the Japanese architect&rsquo;s work. He takes materials others might overlook or discard &ndash; from cardboard tubes to beer crates, styrofoam to shipping cont]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/cardboard-crazy-scavenger-genius-shigeru-ban-on-building-cathedrals-and-quake-shelters-with-paper/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 17:16:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/cardboard-crazy-scavenger-genius-shigeru-ban-on-building-cathedrals-and-quake-shelters-with-paper/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mick Duncan obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[My friend and fellow architect Mick Duncan, who has died aged 86, imbued his architecture with human scale and proportion, whether for the extensive buildings for Stirling University, at Victoria Quay housing the Scottish Executive in Leith, or in the modest yet stately headquarters for United Distilleries in Edinburgh.Working on the new Scottish parliament building was his most demanding task. The design was won in competition by the Spanish architect Enric Miralles, with Robert Matthew Johnson]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/mick-duncan-obituary/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 21:39:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/mick-duncan-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Could we have 13 million new tiles please? The astonishing £42m rebirth of modernist masterpiece Africa Hall]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hailed as one of the defining achievements of African architecture, the historic, recently refurbished Ethiopian landmark has now won the World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism prizeDesigned by the Italian architect Arturo Mezzedimi, Addis Ababa&rsquo;s Africa Hall quickly became recognised as one of the defining achievements of African modernism on its completion in 1961. In 1963, it hosted the founding meeting of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), the precursor to today&rsquo;s African Uni]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/could-we-have-13-million-new-tiles-please-the-astonishing-42m-rebirth-of-modernist-masterpiece-africa-hall/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 17:01:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/could-we-have-13-million-new-tiles-please-the-astonishing-42m-rebirth-of-modernist-masterpiece-africa-hall/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is this the world’s most eye-popping restaurant? The architectural marvel – in a Leipzig industrial estate]]></title><description><![CDATA[This extraordinary diner is the final wonder of the great Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, who dreamt it up at the age of 103. And it&rsquo;s a fine place for a sunset kombucha and ginPerched among old brick buildings in an industrial neighbourhood of Leipzig in eastern Germany, a giant white sphere appears to hover over the corner of a former boiler house. Is it a giant&rsquo;s golf ball? An alien spacecraft? A fallen planet?Twelve metres in diameter, the Niemeyer Sphere is the final design]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/is-this-the-worlds-most-eye-popping-restaurant-the-architectural-marvel-in-a-leipzig-industrial-estate/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/is-this-the-worlds-most-eye-popping-restaurant-the-architectural-marvel-in-a-leipzig-industrial-estate/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Donnelly obituary]]></title><description><![CDATA[My friend John Donnelly, who has died aged 84, was an architect and teacher. His projects included work in housing, waterside redevelopment and conservation design.In 1964 he qualified as an architect, following studies at Birmingham School of Art, and his early career included positions at the firm York Rosenberg and Mardall, and with the Greater London council/Inner London Education Authority architecture department. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/john-donnelly-obituary/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 19:59:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/john-donnelly-obituary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Southbank Centre is striking, polarising and now protected | Letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Francis Bown says its grey concrete and childlike composition expressed the fatalism and despair of the time, while Helen Keats reflects on other brutalist buildsFiona Twycross, the heritage minister, is to be congratulated for finally giving London&rsquo;s Southbank Centre Grade II listing (Campaigners welcome &lsquo;long overdue&rsquo; listing of brutalist Southbank Centre, 10 February).I remember being shocked when I first saw it in the 1960s, but it has become a remarkable symbol of the zeit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-southbank-centre-is-striking-polarising-and-now-protected-letters/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 18:46:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/the-southbank-centre-is-striking-polarising-and-now-protected-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brutal but beautiful: Southbank Centre’s Grade II listing is the cherry on a concrete cake]]></title><description><![CDATA[As one of the longest-running battles in British heritage comes to an end, the listing of the London arts complex vindicates the audacity of this sensational droogs&rsquo; paradiseBritain&rsquo;s battle of brutalism has finally reached an exhausted conclusion with the listing of London&rsquo;s Southbank Centre. The so-called &ldquo;concrete monstrosities&rdquo; of the Hayward Gallery, Purcell Room, Queen Elizabeth Hall and its skatepark undercroft have finally been Grade II-listed by the Departm]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/brutal-but-beautiful-southbank-centres-grade-ii-listing-is-the-cherry-on-a-concrete-cake/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:40:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/brutal-but-beautiful-southbank-centres-grade-ii-listing-is-the-cherry-on-a-concrete-cake/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Campaigners welcome ‘long overdue’ listing of brutalist Southbank Centre]]></title><description><![CDATA[Decision to grant Grade II status marks turnaround for what was once voted &lsquo;Britain&rsquo;s ugliest building&rsquo;The Southbank Centre, once voted Britain&rsquo;s ugliest building, has been granted listed status, in a decision hailed by campaigners as the coming of age of brutalism.Successive governments have resisted six separate proposals to list the centre &ndash; a set of concrete buildings made up of the Hayward Gallery, the Purcell Rooms and the Queen Elizabeth Hall, plus a makeshif]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/campaigners-welcome-long-overdue-listing-of-brutalist-southbank-centre/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:12:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/campaigners-welcome-long-overdue-listing-of-brutalist-southbank-centre/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Back gardens in the sky! The riotous, post-apocalyptic buildings of ‘eco-brutalist’ Renée Gailhoustet]]></title><description><![CDATA[The French architect, who once had her nose broken by Jean-Marie Le Pen, created apartment blocks with cascading terraces that seemed to have surrendered to nature. They are still loved by their residentsWhen the French architect Ren&eacute;e Gailhoustet died in 2023, the residents of Le Li&eacute;gat, a social housing block she completed in 1982, put up a large handmade sign saying: &ldquo;Merci Ren&eacute;e.&rdquo; Architects are often accused of designing impersonal rabbit hutches that they t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/back-gardens-in-the-sky-the-riotous-post-apocalyptic-buildings-of-eco-brutalist-rene-gailhoustet/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 09:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/back-gardens-in-the-sky-the-riotous-post-apocalyptic-buildings-of-eco-brutalist-rene-gailhoustet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cage fights at the White House! A gigantic arch! Trump’s gaudy plans for America’s 250th anniversary]]></title><description><![CDATA[From minting coins featuring his own face to covering buildings with gold, the president&rsquo;s proposals for marking America&rsquo;s semiquincentennial say a lot about the country&rsquo;s backwards outlookWhen the United States celebrated its bicentennial on 4 July 1976, it marked the occasion with the opening of the National Air and Space Museum&rsquo;s exhibition hall on Washington DC&rsquo;s National Mall. Designed in a boldly modernist style by the blue-chip firm Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabau]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/cage-fights-at-the-white-house-a-gigantic-arch-trumps-gaudy-plans-for-americas-250th-anniversary/</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 15:52:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/cage-fights-at-the-white-house-a-gigantic-arch-trumps-gaudy-plans-for-americas-250th-anniversary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘We can learn from the old’: how architects are returning to the earth to build homes for the future]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rammed earth sourced from, or near, the grounds of a proposed building site is attracting attention as an eco-friendly construction materialFrom afar, the low-rise homestead perched in the Wiltshire countryside may look like any other rural outpost, but step closer and the texture of the walls reveal something distinct from the usual facade of cement, brick and steel.The Rammed Earth House in Cranborne Chase is one of the few projects in the UK that has been made by unstabilised rammed earth &nd]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/we-can-learn-from-the-old-how-architects-are-returning-to-the-earth-to-build-homes-for-the-future/</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 14:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/architecture/we-can-learn-from-the-old-how-architects-are-returning-to-the-earth-to-build-homes-for-the-future/</guid></item></channel></rss>