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Will Alsop

June 2020

  • ‘We are here to be taken seriously’ … a glossy promo vision of Boho X, with a view of the Tees transporter bridge.

    The Teesside Silicon Valley: Middlesbrough's £250m bid to be digital powerhouse

    Shiny skyscrapers, rooftop ping-pong, a wellbeing village and an urban farm … Middlesbrough’s mayor wants to make his town a tech dream. Why are so many people horrified?

September 2019

  • From left: Gando School, Sala Beckett, Elbphilharmonie, Casa de Musica

    Best culture of the 21st century
    The best architecture of the 21st century

    A flying roof, a bamboo airport, a marooned galleon and a park in the sky … continuing our series, we pick the 25 greatest builds of the new age

March 2019

  • Spine-tingling … the Neuron Pod education centre at Queen Mary University of London.

    Neuron Pod: Will Alsop's intergalactic porcupine of knowledge

    Based on a nerve cell, the architect’s posthumous addition to London’s Blizard laboratory complex is so lovable, you almost want to give it a cuddle

December 2018

  • clockwise from top left): Robert Venturi, Will Alsop, MJ Long, David Watkin. Paul Virilio and Neave Brown.

    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

May 2018

  • Will Alsop in his south London studio in 2007.

    Will Alsop obituary

    Maverick architect whose bold visions included Peckham Library, winner of the 2000 Stirling prize
  • ‘Fun should be taken seriously, it’s not a trivial thing’ … architect Will Alsop in front of one of his buildings in Toronto in 2006.

    Will Alsop: 'His joyously surreal creations broke the laws of physics'

    Shortly before he became ill, the famously wacky architect let us into his mind-boggling studio for a final interview. Our writer recalls that smoky, boozy, extraordinary afternoon – and assesses his legacy
  • Will Alsop: ‘Architects are the only profession that actually deal in joy and delight.’

    British architect Will Alsop dies aged 70 after short illness

    Tributes pour in for ambitious designer of avant garde and modernist buildings including London’s Peckham Library

May 2017

  • Anti-Brexit Rally In London<br>LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - MARCH 25: Thousands of pro-EU supporters took part in Unite For Europe rally in Parliament Square, which has been organised to coincide with the 60th anniversary of signing of the Treaty of Rome and the triggering of article 50 next week. Demonstrators protested against the consequences of loosing the benefits of EU membership including a free access to the European single market and demanded a guarantee, that EU citizens will have the right to stay in Britain after Brexit. March 25, 2017 in London, United Kingdom. PHOTOGRAPH BY Wiktor Szymanowicz / Barcroft Images London-T:+44 207 033 1031 E:hello@barcroftmedia.com - New York-T:+1 212 796 2458 E:hello@barcroftusa.com - New Delhi-T:+91 11 4053 2429 E:hello@barcroftindia.com www.barcroftimages.com

    Leading architects: EU nationals must not be used as a Brexit negotiating chip

    Letters: Ron Arad, Richard Rogers, Will Alsop and others denounce the government’s attitude towards EU nationals in the Brexit negotiations

November 2015

  • Westfield’s new Bradford shopping centre, The Broadway

    John Harris on the future of cities
    Can a new Bradford emerge from a hole in the ground?

    Once a booming textile capital, Bradford has long fallen on hard times. Regeneration efforts have been patchy, but a new shopping centre opens this week. Can it help to overcome the austerity and lazy racial stereotyping that dog the city?

August 2013

  • The Public

    Architecture and design blog
    The Public: an inevitable end for the misguided arts centre

    A catalogue of catastrophes since its inception, The Public in West Bromwich is a monument to ill-conceived ambition

December 2012

  • view of the terrace from the south

    Architecture and design blog
    How social housing in Manchester has reinvented the back-to-back

    Oliver Wainwright: The latest phase of the New Islington development sheds the bombast to create practical, robust homes on a budget

November 2011

  • BioRegional Quintain's Middlehaven scheme in Middlesbrough, designed by architect Will Alsop

    BioRegional Quintain to be wound up

    Property developer behind environmentally sustainable schemes such as One Brighton will halt work after Middlehaven first phase

August 2011

  • King's Cross redevelopment: the new concourse

    Constructive criticism
    Constructive criticism: the week in architecture

    A first glimpse of the soaring new concourse at King's Cross, Norman Foster defects to China, and architects wonder if they are to blame for the UK riots

November 2010

  • adnec rmjm

    Why do architects need Fred the Shred?

    With controversial employees and even more controversial schemes, RMJM is now a byword for architectural excess says Rowan Moore

November 2009

  • Will Alsop with one of his paitings

    Will Alsop returns to architecture

    Three months ago Will Alsop said he was giving up architecture for painting. Now he says that was all a ruse

August 2009

  • Le Corbusier

    Will Alsop is not the first to swap the drawing board for the easel

    Jonathan Glancey
  • Will Alsop painting

    Will Alsop quits architecture for painting

June 2008

  • All aboard the fun palace

    With its floating galleries, sloping walls and exhibits that talk back to you, Will Alsop's daring new arts centre was worth all the wrangling. Steve Rose gets the first look inside

May 2008

  • My space
    My space

    Will Alsop, architect

October 2006

  • Portrait of the artist
    Portrait of the artist

    Will Alsop, architect: 'I've learned never to trust anyone with big feet and a small head'.

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