Articles by The Angry Architect

It goes without saying that everything in the world is improved by adding bacon to it. But what abou t ham?

Something of an architectural force majeure is sweeping across Paris, and it’s just not a case of news media covering architecture but rather the opposite: Snøhetta have been chosen as architects for the new headquarters of the Le Monde newspaper in Paris. The Norwegian rising stars emerged victorious among the top-tier firms invited to submit…

The Architects’ Journal recently published an enigmatic set of renderings, displaying what architect Richard Weston describes as a new genre of high-rise building: the “contextual tower.” The angular skyscraper — officially named after its address, 1 Undershaft — is intended to correlate closely with its surroundings, its form dictated by a careful analysis of adjacent…

The past month or so has seen the publication of a series of startling, apocalyptic Op-Eds, causing quite a stir amongst architects and critics alike, and with President Obama’s State of the Union address this evening, we feel compelled to take stock of the debate in our domain. In mid-December, The New York Times kicked…

Sad news emerged from San Francisco last week, as we learnt that Architecture For Humanity — the int ernational non-profit organization that changed the game for humanitarian design — had closed down on January 1st. Founded by Cameron Sinclair and Kate Stohr in 1999, the seminal organization was born from a simple idea: that architects and…

The controversy surrounding the opening of the landmark Philharmonie concert hall in the French capi tal was typically Parisian in its nature, evoking polarized opinions aplenty. The epicenter was (and, to the extent that the building remains unfinished, is) a clash between state-owned and private organizations, with a hefty dose of public indignation from one of…

It’s not unusual for architects to diverge from the conventional path of practice, with multip le skills from the profession lending themselves to all manner of creative pursuits. However, once you’ve experienced life in the studio, you never see the world in quite the same way again. It comes as no surprise, then, that Kacper Kowalski…

These shoe designs wouldn’t look out of place in a gallery.

“They say nothing comes easy,” murmurs the protagonist in the opening sequence of the single most ri diculous promotional video for a building ever made, shooting to the top of the list of 11 other contenders. Indeed: Making a sensible advertisement for a luxury high-rise is almost impossible these days, it seems. British developer Redrow has…