Part of the reason house prices are absurdly out of kilter with incomes today can be traced back to Help To Buy. Instead of allowing a correction 10 years ago The Tories decided to prop and pump up prices using taxpayer money. #bbclaurak #HousingCrisis

📰"In these six schemes alone, there is a wealth of ingenuity, something that’s sadly lacking from M&S’s short-sighted plan." SAVE Britain's Heritage & Architects’ Journal re:store ideas competition for M&S Oxford St building in today's The Guardian Olly Wainwright 👀 theguardian.com/artanddesign/a… 🧵1/3

Assemble have transformed the architecture rooms at the RA Summer Exhibition into a mesmerising museum of making theguardian.com/artanddesign/a…

"Change?" If only. Labour’s housing plans are built on flimsy foundations, fantasies and fudge theguardian.com/artanddesign/a…

📢 Ace job alert! The V&A is looking to hire a new senior curator of architecture and design: vam.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/35…

The disastrous Tory policy that inflated house prices, enriched developers and saw shoddily-made homes built in the wrong places theguardian.com/society/ng-int…

Olly Wainwright + additional evidence on the harm of Help-to-Buy/Sell by my colleague Dr Chris Foye & Dr Ed Shepherd Why have the volume housebuilders been so profitable? housingevidence.ac.uk/publications/w…

My bricklayer’s gone viral! Why construction workers are the new social media stars theguardian.com/artanddesign/a…

Bridges, bike lanes, wooden pools and a (maybe) swimmable Seine... How will Paris's Olympic legacy stack up? theguardian.com/artanddesign/a…

"You travel five million years a metre" – inside Feilden Fowles and J & L Gibbons's magnificent new gardens for the Natural History Museum 🦕🌴 theguardian.com/artanddesign/a…

Paris’s department stores transformed urban life. What can they teach today’s struggling shops? theguardian.com/artanddesign/a…

This year's Stirling Prize shortlist revealed: can a tiny dairy farm beat the epic Elizabeth Line? theguardian.com/artanddesign/a…

Why Eric Parry's gigantic orthopaedic toilet seat must be scrapped theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

From splashing in the Seine, to diving in the Danube: the drive to make cities swimmable theguardian.com/artanddesign/a… 👏Chris Romer-Lee et al 💦

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Looking back, I think I got it right about Trump all the way back in 1988. It was all there then: the greed, the deceit, the total absence of any belief in the common good. ARCHITECTURE VIEW; Trump: Symbol of a Gaudy, Impatient Time - The New York Times nytimes.com/1988/01/31/art…

Explore Olly Wainwright's collection on alternative ways of living in the city. programme.openhouse.org.uk/collections/189

"An aggressive act of teeth-whitening in the mouth of a much-loved and elegant friend" – on the bleaching of the Sainsbury Wing, and a missive from the grave 👻theguardian.com/artanddesign/a…

‘There’s a lot to be built still’: architect Mariam Issoufou on excavating the past to build Africa’s future theguardian.com/global-develop…