A throbbing neon powerhouse: Hong Kong’s gigantic new billboard – with a nice museum attached
M+ wants to be a global titan of art, to rival Tate Modern and the Pompidou. But did architects Herzog and de Meuron overdo the concrete? And why is finding the rooftop garden so hard?
July 2023
Herzog & de Meuron review – inscrutable show puts life before architecture
Herzog & de Meuron review – architecture’s masters of reinvention reveal their box of tricks
May 2023
London’s Liverpool Street station redevelopment: on the wrong track?
A Herzog & de Meuron-designed £1.5bn proposal to redevelop the listed Victorian railway terminus seems ill-conceived, whichever way you look at it
December 2022
2023 culture preview
The best art and design shows to visit in 2023
Queer Renaissance sculptor Donatello, Marina Abramović, David Hockney and a long-delayed mega-museum in Manchester – your art-design to-do list for the year ahead
May 2022
A slice of Silicon Valley – inside the RCA’s colossal new £135m building
The Royal College of Art’s brutalist new building – by architects Herzog & de Meuron – reflects a shift from art school to science-tech powerhouse. But is a business-facing behemoth what its students really need?
October 2021
Herzog & de Meuron: ‘Architecture is the art of facts. We shouldn’t have a moralistic standpoint’
The ‘starchitects’ are at work on highly charged projects in Israel, Hong Kong and the new Cambridge HQ of AstraZeneca. How do they negotiate openness and inclusion?
September 2019
Best culture of the 21st century
The best architecture of the 21st century
Best culture of the 21st century
Mother of all loft conversions: how Tate Modern became building of the century
December 2018
The architects and design pioneers we lost in 2018
Will Alsop, Robert Venturi, MJ Long and more – in 2018 we lost some hugely influential architects, designers and thinkers who transformed the places in which we live, work and play
October 2018
Mundial
What makes a great football stadium?
What makes Anfield better than Wembley? Why did Juventus fans hate the Stadio delle Alpi? And why are West Ham fans unhappy? Architects and design experts offer some answers
December 2016
Best culture 2016
Oliver Wainwright's top 10 buildings of 2016
Observer critics' review of 2016
Rowan Moore: best architecture of 2016
November 2016
'We thought it was going to destroy us' … Herzog and De Meuron's Hamburg miracle
13 years late and 10 times over-budget, the €789m Elbphilharmonie concert hall is finished – complete with 1,000 handblown glass lamps and €300 loo brushes. Our critic goes inside the great glass galleon
May 2012
Herzog & de Meuron: and now for our next trick …
Their wild, experimental buildings have made them in demand the world over. Herzog and De Meuron talk to Steve Rose about their latest work for Britain: a collaboration with Ai Weiwei
February 2008
Secrets of the Bird's Nest
In a special feature on the architecture of the Beijing Olympics, Jonathan Glancey sneaks a look inside its signature building - the looping, swooping, stunning stadium
