Over the next two years many of London’s museums, theatres and galleries are being redesigned or extended — but a city whose culture is vital to its global status needs more than a makeover

Asif Khan, the young Londoner who created Beatbox for the Olympics and MegaFaces for Sochi, is in line for the biggest job of his career — he talks to Robert Bevan about being shortlisted in the international architectural competition to build the latest Guggenheim gallery

A handful of major projects in the capital are set to put husband and wife architect team Deborah Saunt and David Hills in the big league, says Robert Bevan

As London’s landmark skyscraper Centre Point gets a new lease of life and Copyright House in Fitzrovia faces demolition, conservationists are reappraising the work of architect Richard Seifert

Activist art may make for a moving show but the museum’s new approach to collecting is truly radical

This show that seeks to present William Morris as a proto-hipster misses the point that he was a socialist, not an anarchist; Morris & Co’s workshops stitched trade union banners as well as table runners

Undeterred by the defeat of its last scheme after local objections, the Geffrye Museum has come up with an elegant new proposal for its £15 million extension, unveiled here

The new line will be a journey through the best of design, its head of architecture Julian Robinson tells Robert Bevan — but will it live up to the Tube’s past glories?

If the Shard wins the Stirling Prize next week it will be because the building heralds the open-all-hours skyscraper where Londoners can work and play, says its architect, Renzo Piano

The first look inside 20 Fenchurch Street reveals greedy architecture, double-decker lifts and the most spectacular views of the city

Attacks on ancient Middle Eastern monuments are more than a loss for architectural history, they are part of ethnic cleansing — which makes tracking the destruction more important than ever

New plans are afoot to turn the area around Aldwych into a glamorous district to rival the South Bank — who will benefit from this slicker slice of city?

This first major survey of Louis Kahn’s splendid work in decades features 60 models, films, photographs, notebooks and other personal effects which illuminate his enigmatic life and death

As two of London’s finest First World War memorials are upgraded to Grade I listing, Robert Bevan discovers, from a moving new exhibition inside Hyde Park Corner’s Wellington Arch, that no area of our heritage is more poignant

Like a giant egg or a Stone Age spaceship, architect Smiljan Radic’s Serpentine Pavilion is a symbol of hope and something more mysterious

London’s latest tall tower, which officially completes next week, has turned out to be one of the world’s best skyscrapers — the only thing is, it’s in the wrong place

The British pavilion at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale draws on Cliff Richard and A Clockwork Orange to make a valid point about the pressing need for a new vision for our built environment, says Robert Bevan

Architects from other countries want to work in London and the capital benefits from the diversity of influence they bring on the grand and domestic scale, which, says Robert Bevan, is why this year’s London Festival of Architecture is celebrating them