Articles by Nat Barker

British designer Thomas Heatherwick has taken aim at the “cult of modernist architecture” in a new BBC radio series. Heatherwick, whose numerous high-profile projects include Little Island in New York and Google’s headquarters in London and Silicon Valley, made the comments in a three-part series on BBC Radio 4 called Building Soul with Thomas Heatherwick. “I

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Pakistani architect Yasmeen Lari has said the RIBA was “brave” to award her the Royal Gold Medal earlier this year. The Royal Institute of British Architects’ Royal Gold Medal is the UK’s highest individual honour for architecture and is personally approved by the British monarch, King Charles III. In her keynote address at the recent In

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Delegates from the Global South were denied visas to attend Copenhagen’s UIA World Congress of Architects this summer by the Danish government, despite the event’s stated goal being “leave no one behind”. Kabage Karanja, co-founder of Kenyan architecture studio Cave Bureau, told Dezeen that one of the team members behind its Louisiana exhibition shown at

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