Building Design

This point-counterpoint from Building Design debates whether the British can design good public spaces.

Prince Charles makes a case for the commercial viability of green housing with traditional design, as opposed to the modernist styles typically associated with the future of low carbon homes.

Where traditional shopping malls were all about creating retail-only internal spaces, new retail developments are mixing uses and returning to the street.

In the mid-1900s architect Le Corbusier designed a grand sports complex for Baghdad as part of the city's bid for the 1960 Olympics. That bid failed and the project was never built. Now, original drawings and designs are on display.

With too much focus on "architectural bling" and a hyperactive development pattern, Dubai is in danger of becoming a modern planning disaster, according to architect Thom Mayne.

Surveys find that residents in the UK want high density development.