Law Courts, Arthur Erickson, Vancouver, 1973. #ArthurErickson #CanadianArchitecture #Photograph #williamtozer
Dr William Tozer | RIBA ANZIA 📍
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Critic, educator, researcher, architect | Posting daily about architecture | Bartlett UCL PhD | also studied RMIT, University of Auckland | Founder of William Tozer Associates @williamtozerassoc.bsky.social
Pretty sure Norman Foster works at Foster and Partners.
‘Practising architecture today has two flavours: foregoing principles for work, or foregoing work for principles’ I disagree strongly on abandoning the idea of architecture as art, but agree with a lot of it. De Graaf is very thoughtful as always. www.ribaj.com/intelligence...
Reinier de Graaf: How to make architecture meaningful again
OMA partner and Architecture Against Architecture author Reinier de Graaf’s 14-point manifesto for reforming a profession he argues is heading for irrelevance.
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A lot of people hating on the build quality of the new New Museum building by OMA, but saying they like the form. So I’m going to go ahead and say I don’t like the form.
It’s curious watching architects use music on Instagram, and seemingly not realise the difference between copyright, licensing, and royalties. As producers of creative work themselves, you’d think by they’d know better.
Jealous House by Owain Williams Architects. ‘It’s called the Jealous House, a reference to Iago’s description of jealousy in Shakespeare’s “Othello” as “the green-eyed monster which doth mock / The meat it feeds on.”’ www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/r...
A Green ‘Monster’ Hides on a Quiet London Street
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I’ve long thought there is a curious circularity to the Pritzkers contributing to the internationalisation of architecture through their Hyatt hotels, and then rewarding starchitect internationalism through the Pritzker Prize. www.dezeen.com/2026/03/05/p...
"Maybe the Pritzker delay says exactly what we need right now"
With the Pritzker Architecture Prize in potential jeopardy over its patron's links to Jeffrey Epstein, Edwin Heathcote reflects on the award's relevance in 2026.
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Hoping someone at Dwell doesn’t know the meaning of the word ‘literally’, otherwise this is a terrifying story.
Eero Saarinen facade retained, external alterations and addition by David Chipperfield, and lavish interiors by French designer Joseph Dirand. Too many cooks? www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
‘A gilded temple to the new world order’: inside the former US embassy that is now a super-luxe hotel
Even the cheap rooms cost £1,400 a night at London’s bling-heavy hangout for high net worth individuals. From mega-basement spa to gaudy rooftop bar, our writer takes a tour
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‘he sponsored a yearlong seminar and studio at the Yale School of Architecture in 2000 and 2001 . . . the seminar began with lectures from leading architects and the studio ended with students proposing conceptual designs for a possible house . . .’ www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/r...
An Art Collector’s Vision Set in Rock in Millbrook, N.Y.
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Calder’s work was about negative space,” says Herzog, “so our process was one of excavating and carving, rather than creating positive form.’ www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
‘The townhouse he updated . . . with attention to its midcentury roots is part of a residential complex that emerged in Norway's postwar housing boom.’ www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/g...
As they have grown in size, Adjaye’s projects have all too often given the impression of someone in a hurry . . . the Princeton museum [is] leagues ahead’ I wonder if this is partly because they lost a lot of projects when this one was being realised. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
‘We want people to get lost!’ Princeton’s new museum survives scandal to deliver a mazey art ambush
It is architect David Adjaye’s first major project since the allegations that rocked his firm – a bold museum for Princeton University with exhibits that sneak up on its students. But do the insides m...
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‘contrary to the suburban stereotype, [Irvine’s] neighborhoods are layered with a diversity of single-family homes and multiunit buildings’ www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/b...
Maybe America Needs Some New Cities
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‘It would be hard to design a more menacing building if you tried.’ www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
An eco obscenity: Norman Foster’s steroidal new skyscraper is an affront to the New York skyline
It contains enough steel to go round the world twice – and even has a fake breeze to flutter the stars-and-stripes flag in its lobby. If this $4bn colossus is just the first of a new breed of bulky su...
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“it was kind of a sign that the market is shifting and that these very tight solutions are becoming the norm.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/r...
Tuck Yourself In at Night. Then Tuck Your Bed In for the Day.
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‘differences in the composition of income growth and its translation into housing demand—as opposed to differences in housing supply—can explain both the higher average price growth and low growth in quantity in some metro areas relative to others’ www.frbsf.org/research-and...
Housing Affordability and Housing Demand - San Francisco Fed
Understanding housing demand dynamics through two indicators, income growth and population growth, provides important insights into housing affordability. Research shows that average U.S. income growt...
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‘a fascinating new exhibition at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montreal, which explores the development of modern architecture in the first decades of communist China.’ www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
‘A cave complex worthy of Batman!’ Mind-boggling buildings that showed the world a new China
The birth of the People’s Republic is seen as a time of drab buildings. But this dazzling show, featuring a factory in a cave and a denounced roof, tells a wildly different story
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Congratulations, Niall McLaughlin! This seems like a refreshing change of direction for the RIBA Gold Medal. In recent decades it’s been a bit of a race with the Pritzker to be first to recognise an international starchitect. www.dezeen.com/2026/01/29/n...
"Humble visionary" Niall McLaughlin wins 2026 RIBA Royal Gold Medal
Niall McLaughlin has been named the recipient of the 2026 Royal Gold Medal for architecture by the Royal Institute of British Architects.
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‘Farrell grew disenchanted with high-tech Modernism — an architecture that, as the architect Colin Fournier wrote in 2011, tolerated “no contradictions, no jokes, no attempts at seduction, no symbolic references, no slang, no local dialects”’ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/a...
Terry Farrell, Whose Buildings Embodied Late 20th-Century Extremes, Dies at 87
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‘John Merz could not shake the sense that what was happening now was a defamation of his parents’ legacy. His parents understood their domestic space as a shared civic commodity.’ www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/s...
The Hip Priest, the Ex-Hedge Funder and the $10 Million Townhouse
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The Roses is pretty good entertainment, but the architecture angle is a bit cringey. The only fun bit for architecture viewers is his architect friends eviscerating his museum design, and another friend then pointing out how unintelligible they sound. youtu.be/XkgMaS5gbaA?...
‘From dark, sound-proofed rooms to clever storage solutions, families with autism and ADHD are finding inspired ways to adjust their environments’ www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
How neurodivergent households design ‘a home that knows your brain’
From dark, sound-proofed rooms to clever storage solutions, families with autism and ADHD are finding inspired ways to adjust their environments
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New York architecture chess set www.farrar-tanner.com/acrylic-new-...
Skyline Chess Acrylic New York Edition with New York Board
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‘A RIBA report says “stark displays of sexism” are driving women from the profession. If we don’t fight this systemic misogyny, we won’t just lose dazzling designs – we’ll have a world only fit for 6ft tall policemen’ www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
From Byzantine cottages to vulvic stadiums: the brilliance of female architects
A RIBA report says “stark displays of sexism” are driving women from the profession. If we don’t fight this systemic misogyny, we won’t just lose dazzling designs – we’ll have a world only fit for 6ft...
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‘housing policy should be understood not only in terms of supply, affordability, and efficiency, but also in terms of social architecture.’ epsig.substack.com/p/why-modern...
Why Modern Housing Is Making Us Lonely
An evolutionary perspective on housing and mental health
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‘Still, the water rises and more houses tip their contents — fiberglass insulation, toxic chemicals, a novelty pillow — into the sea.’ www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/m...
Houses Collapsing Into the Sea? It’s Not as Baffling as It Looks.
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‘The origins of the Stahl house date to May 1954, when CH “Buck” and Carlotta Stahl bought a hilly patch of land in the then undeveloped Hollywood Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles for $13,500.’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘An idealized version of LA’: fabled mid-century Stahl house on sale for first time
Home perched in Hollywood Hills, constructed for $37,500 and made famous by Julius Shulman photo, listed for $25m
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