Author Archives: Catherine Slessor

Cooling towers such as those at Fiddler's Ferry power station in Cheshire are disappearing, leaving Britain on the brink of losing a unique part of its industrial heritage, argues Catherine Slessor 

This shouty book’s arguments against ‘boring’ buildings are too wafer-thin to obscure its true aim of self-promotion, argues Catherine Slessor. Photomontages by Maria Rodriguez

Michael Hopkins, who has died at the age of 88, developed a very English type of High-Tech and was clasped to the bosom of the British Establishment, writes Catherine Slessor 

Catherine Slessor looks back at the life of celebrated Indian architect, planner, and teacher Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi

Architecture critic Catherine Slessor gives her verdict on this year's RIBA Stirling Prize shortlist and wonders whether the time has finally come for Níall McLaughlin to win the UK's biggest architectural award

The indefatigable and long-standing educator and activist Neil Pinder is the recipient of the 2022 AJ100 Contribution to the Profession award. Interview by Catherine Slessor. Photography by Holly-Marie Cato

The Larick Centre by Collective Architecture has won the Public prize at the 2021 AJ Architecture Awards

Redhill Barn by TYPE has won the Project under £500,000 prize at the 2021 AJ Architecture Awards

Industry experts Catherine Slessor, Shankari Raj and Claire Bennie give their reaction to this year’s selection of six buildings that will vie for UK architecture’s most coveted prize

Catherine Slessor meets the winner of this year’s AJ100 award for an outstanding contribution to architecture – a champion of social housing whose designs are applauded across the political spectrum. Photographed by Kristina Sälgvik