Oliver Wainwright (born July 1984[1]) is a British architecture and design critic.
He has written for the British newspapers The Guardian and The Times and is the Features Editor for the industry magazine Building Design.
[2][3] He trained and worked as an architect before becoming a journalist[4][5] Oliver Wainwright attended Benton Park School in Leeds before going on to study architecture at the University of Cambridge, graduating with a double first, before the Royal College of Art.
Wainwright has praised the work of architect firm Stanton Williams and defended the company's design of the Sainsbury Laboratory after it won the 2012 RIBA Stirling Prize, despite its superficially prefabricated style.
[3] He described the restaurant in the Walkie Talkie tower at 20 Fenchurch Street as "like being in an airport terminal".