Machine Books
Tim Abrahams, TimA weekly look at architecture, planning and design.
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A Decade Without Zaha
King Abdullah Financial District Metro, ZHA, 2025
I first met Zaha Hadid when she got the job for the Riverside Museum in 2004. I interviewed her crammed into the corner of the one room at the school on Bowling Green Lane in Clerkenwell sh...
Mary Duggan wins the Stirling Prize + John McAslan in Oxford
Lion Green Road in Croydon
The winner of the 2026 RIBA Stirling Prize is Mary Duggan for Lion Green Road in Croydon. To celebrate her victory, we’re re-upping the conversation with Duggan for Superurbanism. Lovely moment were Mary says the...
Fighting polar bears
I was once given money by the Norwegian government to fly to Bergen, and interview Jon Fosse, who later won the Nobel Prize for Literature. It was on the occasion of one of his plays being performed at the Edinburgh Festival and the cultura...
Take the criticism
Embracing Flood: Xinjiang River Ecological Corridor by Turenscape. Winner of the best landscape at WAF 2025
If all you’ve ever had in architectural training is lovey-dovey questions saying how great you are, it’s an utter waste of time.” S...
TAKE IT TO THE BRIDGE
Botley Road Bridge, before opening. Photo: Network Rail.
The Botley Road Bridge in Oxford has brought home to me, literally, how hard it is to retain control of a construction project and how important that control is for design. It has h...
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