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Five Great Reads: endorphin-pumping dance classes, the Obamalisk, and hallucinating inside a Scandi-kindergarten

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Emma Elsworthy

The Guardian - AU · Jun 5

All aboard the Nike Northern line? Why corporate takeovers of London’s tube are a terrible idea

Transport for London’s call for sponsorship of the Waterloo & City line throws out the network’s founding principles of public service and good design, says Guardian architecture and design critic Oliver Wainwright

The Guardian - UK · Jul 16, 2025

Five Great Reads: a kiss that led to a years-long nightmare, the Dull Men’s Club, and a famous feminist mother

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Claire Keenan

The Guardian - AU · Jun 13, 2025

‘I didn’t feel like I was supporting a regime’: architect David Chipperfield on working for China

His stunning $1bn restoration project in Shanghai is a hit with the city’s influencers. But not everyone is impressed. The revered architect talks about the highs, lows and many risks of building for China

The Guardian - UK · Jan 15, 2024

Best designs and designers of 2023: ‘A chunk of glossy sexiness’

From 3D-printed headphones to a museum dedicated to crabs, our panel of experts pick the designs and designers of the year

The Guardian - UK · Dec 13, 2023

Love them or hate them, a UK government decision on e-scooters is well overdue

Despite local trials being cut short for safety concerns, regulation has been kicked down the road, says Oliver Wainwright, the Guardian’s architecture and design critic

The Guardian - UK · Nov 6, 2023

The housing quality crisis is built on 13 years of Tory deregulation

Letters: Readers respond to an article by Oliver Wainwright about the state of new-build properties in the UK

The Guardian - UK · Oct 27, 2023

‘War is back. People want to stock up’: inside Europe’s biggest arms fair

Military spending is at an all-time high – and from laser-guided drones to dog armour, there is no shortage of hardware. Our writer visits the vast ‘supermarket of death’ that is London’s DSEI shop floor

The Guardian - UK · Sep 20, 2023

The ultimate eco building – made of salt, sunflowers and recycled urine

Its door handles are made of salt. Its walls are made of sunflowers. Its furniture is made of Japanese knotweed. And it was stained with dyes made from filtered urine. Is this recycling marvel in southern France the future of architecture?

The Guardian - UK · Jun 5, 2023

How solar farms took over the California desert: ‘An oasis has become a dead sea’

Residents feel trapped and choked by dust, while experts warn environmental damage is ‘solving one problem by creating others’

The Guardian - US · May 21, 2023