Mr Can Do

Academia, architecture, awards ceremonies and product and installation design – welcome to the world of William O’Brien Jr. 

The Old Guard

Edwin Heathcote finds out how shopfits made from  salvage-yard finds have become the key to the French practice Ciguë’s success.

Artist Unknown

If ‘starchitecture’ doesn’t appeal, look to Nader Tehrani. His eloquent engineering always lets buildings speak for themselves, says Owen Hatherley.

The Material World

Paper-bag ceilings and newspaper walls? Just part of a day’s work for Jeremy Barbour, finds Douglas Murphy.

Two Heads Better

Elias Redstone finds a practice where the husband- and-wife founders have married differing schools of design with arresting effects.

Brighton

Jonathan Meades ponders the psychogeographical morality - or lack of it - of Brighton and the mythos of its architectural stylings.