Post-colonial party pads! The architects who got Ghana back in the groove | Architecture

Revolutionary leader … Kwame Nkrumah in 1953.

Deep inside the workshops of the Victoria and Albert Museum, a specialist is painstakingly dabbing the back of a torn drawing with a cotton bud. After spending hours carefully removing strips of ageing sticky tape, […]

The parched metropolis: can eco architecture save LA from megadrought? | Architecture

Record-breaking rainfall … the recent storms have not alleviated LA’s water shortage.

After weeks of record-breaking rainfall have seen freeways flood, hillsides collapse and the dry concrete gutter of the Los Angeles River transform into a raging torrent, you may have assumed that California’s water-shortage woes were […]

‘As welcoming as the shadow under a tree’: the new home for the man who built Houston | Architecture

Un-zoned cityscapte … aerial view of the new Houston Endowment headquarters.

Few figures have shaped the form and fortunes of a city as much as Jesse H Jones moulded Houston’s. From the early 1900s, the lumberyard owner turned real estate developer, turned banker and Democrat politician, […]