The Architectural Review

The Architectural Review is a global magazine dedicated to architecture, released monthly. It has been in circulation in London since 1896. The magazine features articles that explore the built environment, including landscape architecture, building and interior design, urban planning, and the theories behind these areas.

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Reputations: Robert Moses

1 week ago | architectural-review.com | Kristina Rapacki

The ghost of New York’s master road builder continues to haunt the 21st-century city – and its would-be plannersIn her 1970 book Superhighway –Superhoax, the journalist Helen Leavitt dug up a cringeworthy piece of road‑building ephemera.
Revisit: Schlangenbader Straße estate in Berlin, Germany, by Georg Heinrichs, Gerhard Krebs and Klaus Krebs

1 week ago | architectural-review.com | Kristina Rapacki

A superstructure designed in the 1970s with a motorway running through its core still purrs along nicely because it was built for people, not carsMost 1970s superstructures have a habit of shouting their presence from miles away. In the sleepy Berlin borough of Wilmersdorf, the Schlangenbader Straße estate is more a case of hiding in plain sight. At 600m‑long and up to 46 metres high, the main building contains 1,064 units, with an additional 694 in a block running parallel to it.
Simone Veil bridge in Bordeaux by OMA and Michel Designee Paysagiste

1 week ago | architectural-review.com | Kristina Rapacki

OMA’s new bridge for Bordeaux offers space for public events, but little reason to linger on residents’ daily commutesBordeaux’s new bridge, named after French feminist politician Simone Veil, is described by its architects OMA as a ‘linear public space’.
Cape to Cairo: the making and unmaking of colonial road networks

2 weeks ago | architectural-review.com | Kristina Rapacki

In 2024, Egypt completed its 1,155km stretch of the Cairo–Cape Town Highway, a 10,228km‑long road connecting 10 African countries – Egypt, Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana and South Africa. The imaginary of ‘Cape to Cairo’ is not new. In 1874, editor of the Daily Telegraph Edwin Arnold proposed a plan to connect the African continent by rail, a project that came to be known as the Cape to Cairo Railway project.
A short history of the roadblock

2 weeks ago | architectural-review.com | Kristina Rapacki

Barricades, as we know them today, are thought to date back to the European wars of religion.According to most historians, the first barricade went up in Paris in 1588; the word derives from the French barriques, or barrels, spontaneously put together. They have been assembled from the most diverse materials, from cobblestones, tyres, newspapers, dead horses and bags of ice (during Kyiv’s Euromaidan in 2013–14), to omnibuses and e‑scooters.
The Architectural Review issue 1522, June 2025

3 weeks ago | architectural-review.com | Manon Mollard

Mauricio Rocha | TaAU | Alejandro Castro | OMA | Michel Desvigne | Robert Moses | El Equipo Mazzanti | ContraFuerte |Batlleiroig | Christian KerezEarlier this year, news broke that levels of fine particulate matter in Paris had dropped by an astounding 55 per cent since 2005. Through a combination of regulation and public policy, the city has vastly reduced the number of cars on its streets, introducing bike lanes and public green spaces in the place of around 50,000 parking spaces.
Competition insights: Zuzana Bajgarová on Ostrava’s Palace Hotel renewal contest

3 weeks ago | architectural-review.com | Merlin Fulcher

The chief executive of the developer Antracit discusses her ambitions for the contest contest to retrofit and upgrade the former Palace Hotel in Ostrava, CzechiaWhy are you holding an international contest for the renewal of the Palace Hotel in Ostrava? The former Palace Hotel building holds great historical and cultural significance for Ostrava.
Competition: SuperPrior, Most

4 weeks ago | architectural-review.com | Merlin Fulcher

An open international contest is being held to retrofit and upgrade the Brutalist-style Prior shopping centre in Most, Czechia (Deadline: 27 June)The two-stage competition – organised by the Centre for Central European Architecture (CCEA MOBA) on behalf of the City of Most – will select a design team to upgrade the 1973 complex located on a prominent site in the centre of the planned 1970s coal-mining settlement.
Competition: Flemish Community Commission, Brussels

4 weeks ago | architectural-review.com | Merlin Fulcher

A competition is being held to rethink the Flemish Community Commission’s property portfolio in Brussels (Deadline: 17 June 2025) The competition – organised by the Brussels ‘Bouwmeester’ chief architect – will select a ‘multidisciplinary and transversal’ team to draw up a high-level vision for the commission’s estate which includes 64 buildings and campuses across the Brussels-Capital Region The winner of the €190,000 contract will create short (1–5 years), medium (5–15 years), and long term...
Track changes: Transa repair centre in Zürich, Switzerland, by Baubüro In Situ, Zirkular and Denkstatt sàrl

4 weeks ago | architectural-review.com | Kristina Rapacki

The Swiss Federal Railways’ repair works in Zürich are being lightly transformed for new commercial usesWorkers at the Swiss Federal Railways’ (SBB) central repair works in Zürich used to climb the roof of its halls and practise handstands. It was as good a place as any to do gymnastics: out in the open air, with a view to the Käferberg rising across from a tangle of railway tracks and the river Limmat.