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Several campaigns and protests have been organised to prevent Snøhetta’s overhaul of Philip Johnson’s postmodern AT&T Building in New York, which has been described as “vandalism” by Guardian critic Olly Wainwright. Two online petitions – launched by filmmaker Nathan Eddy and Swiss journal Archithese – are campaigning against Snøhetta’s recently unveiled plans for 550 Madison, formerly the

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Architecture firm dRMM has been awarded this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize for its sensitive revival of a seaside pier in Hastings, England. The London studio – led by architects Alex de Rijke, Philip Marsh and Sadie Morgan – wins the biggest prize in UK architecture for transforming a century-old, ruined pier into a new attraction

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Architecture firm Snøhetta has revealed its plans to overhaul the New York skyscraper designed in the postmodern style by Philip Johnson and John Burgee, which involve replacing the street frontage but retaining its recognisable classical pediment. The 647-foot (197-metre) tower at 550 Madison – formerly known as the AT&T Building and then the Sony Tower

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The cylindrical frame of a gasholder at Stockholm’s old gasworks will host an events space, in plans by Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron that will see another of the structures demolished to make way for a skyscraper. Called Gasklockan, the residential development is overseen by Oscar Properties and is being constructed on the site of the

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