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He is one of the world's grea­test ar­chi­tects, whose stun­ning buil­dings have spar­ked both won­der and con­tro­versy. IM Pei, now in his 90s, talks to Jo­na­than Glancey

THE new Burj Kha­lifa in Dubai, at 160 sto­ries and 2,717 feet high, makes the 102-story Em­pire State Buil­ding into a pips­queak, and in­deed the urge to build the tal­lest struc­ture in the world is an in­fec­tious one.

Levittown, the mass-produced sub­urb built in Nas­sau County after World War II, is often the first thing that comes to mind when the sub­ject is Long Is­land ar­chi­tec­ture. Fair en­ough; it was the ar­che­type for such com­mu­nities throughout the

DURING one three-week pe­riod re­cently Iwan Baan tou­ched down in Ams­ter­dam, Me­xico City, Miami, New York, Milan, Rome, Tokyo, Me­del­lín and Basel, where he pho­to­gra­phed buil­dings de­si­gned by some of the world’s top architects

The world's tal­lest buil­ding may be a tri­umph of be­auty and am­bi­tion, but the soulless ci­ty­scape sur­roun­ding it is ano­ther mat­ter.

The 818-metre tower is a true won­der of the world, a fit­ting mo­nu­ment to Dubai as the ca­pi­tal of ex­cess and ir­ra­tio­nal exu­ber­ance.

Traditions in Yemen have stayed lar­gely alive be­cause of deep po­verty and long iso­la­tion, ma­king the capital’s Old City one of the world’s ar­chi­tec­tu­ral gems.

The home of Geor­gian ar­chi­tec­ture has ma­na­ged to hang on to its world he­ri­tage sta­tus. But for how long?

It is dif­fi­cult to fa­thom at first why a fa­mous ar­chi­tect with one of the lar­gest prac­tices in the world would per­so­nally want to take on a sli­ver of a buil­ding on the Bo­wery.

With its ripp­ling fa­cade and vast green roof, Chicago's Aqua Tower is a reve­la­tion. It's also the tal­lest buil­ding in the world to be de­si­gned by a woman

The death of Charles Gwath­mey early this month has pro­vo­ked a lot of nost­al­gic re­mi­nis­cence in the New York ar­chi­tec­ture world: not just about Mr. Gwath­mey him­s­elf, but also about the New York Five, a group of in­flu­en­tial ar­chi­tect…

For more than fif­teen years Maike van Sti­phout and her of­fice DS land­sch­aps­ar­chi­tec­ten have been working on a wide range of land­scape com­mis­si­ons. Her port­fo­lio com­pri­ses all sca­les in both urban and rural areas. She has worked on s…

Spain's long-running love af­fair with cutting-edge ar­chi­tec­ture has come to a dra­ma­tic end as high-profile projects from the world's grea­test ar­chi­tects fall foul of re­ces­sion and a coun­try­wide buil­ding bust.

The win­ners, with full quo­tes from the jury-report: see also dis­cus­sion about the re­sults and the jud­ge­ment (for now only in Dutch, trans­la­tion will fol­low soon)First prize (ex aequo, each 15,000 euro)AMALGAM  - Laura Al­va­rez, laura al­va…

Web 2.0 seems to have per­mea­ted – ad­mit­tedly a little slowly – to neigh­bourhood ma­nage­ment and urban de­ve­lop­ment. Ams­ter­dam hou­sing as­so­cia­ti­ons re­cently laun­ched the Bu­urt­le­ven web­site (www.buurtleven.nl), a di­gi­tal bul­le­t…