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OWEN HATHERLEY Serbian activists could teach us a thing or two about the value of modernist social housing The two plans favoured by Tower Hamlets Council for the replacement of [...]

OWEN HATHERLEY Patchy attempts to revive post-industrial towns are producing unsettling results in one of Britain's most blighted regions Throughout 2009, the aim of this series was to discover what [...]

This month marks Peter Rees's 25th year as the City's chief planning officer. Ellis Woodman meets the man and gauges to what ends he has used his considerable power The [...]

East's landscaping of Hatcham Gardens is part of a linear arboretum it is creating across the south London area of Deptford, writes Biba Dow With its distinctive location - cornered [...]

OWEN HATHERLEY Embracing every regeneration project on offer does no favours to our rundown urban areas 'To be asked, as Ian McKellen asked me, whether I was homosexual, was a [...]

OWEN HATHERLEY Cladding covered with pictures of knives and forks doesn't make a building any more `local' There are a few words it would be good to see banned altogether [...]

OWEN HATHERLEY The Azerbaijani restaurant in Melnikov's Rusakov club strikes an incongruous note The Rusakov Workers' Club in Moscow, designed by Konstantin Melnikov in 1927, is a strange place to [...]

It's 10 years since the Greenwich Peninsula was at the centre of millennium celebrations, but its redevelopment has proved to be a microcosm of New Labour's wasted opportunities OWEN HATHERLEY [...]

OWEN HATHERLEY What lies behind this Europe-wide mania for recladding post-war buildings? One moment there's a tall building, made perhaps of precast concrete panels, some seventies aggregate, with Mies-ish I-beams [...]

This vast flatpack installation is holding a minimalist conversation with its own gallery, says Owen Hatherley EXHIBITION JAN DE COCK: REPROMOTION Bozar, 23 Rue Ravenstein, Brussels, Belgium Until September 13 [...]

With its sixties blocks being reclad or demolished, Glasgow has never regained the architectural confidence it showed in the early 20th century Owen Hatherley Glasgow, unusually for Britain, is a [...]

Owen Hatherley Manchester is hailed as a flagship for successful regeneration but along the way it has lost all appetite for civic architecture Greater Manchester, Cottonopolis, was once the world's [...]

It's the empty streets and lack of crowds that make Milton Keynes feel civilised - but attempts to bring density to the new town could spell the end for this [...]

OWEN HATHERLEY The 60s estate's potential could still be unlocked - given a bit of the cash squandered on its successor Pinnacles, in West Thamesmead, London SE28, is the Ground [...]

OWEN HATHERLEY Totalitarian architectural monuments or toadying to heritage? The choice is yours There's a spot in the City of London where, if you look around, you can see on [...]

OWEN HATHERLEY Designers love Westminster Academy, but is what's going on inside really such a good idea? In its finance capital flashiness, AHMM's Westminster Academy neatly embodies the academies' managerial [...]

OWEN HATHERLEY Looming financial disaster might have unexpected social and environmental benefits The credit crunch now looks like it will descend not only into recession, but quite possibly into a [...]

OWEN HATHERLEY What used to be Greenwich District Hospital is now a vast, overgrown wasteland Maybe because of the unusually good showing in last month's Olympics, it seems we're already [...]