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Review of the Year in Architecture: 2020
At the end of the year it is tempting to look at the lockdowns of 2020 as unprecedented conditions: unique responses to a totally unforeseen crisis. And whilst the experience of it has been completely novel, the sneaking suspicion grows … Continue reading
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Defending Holyland
This is the text of a defense i gave at a Balloon Debate organised by the Future Cities Project in which I defended my favourite depiction of the city in a work of art. Sitting within this beautiful beguiling and … Continue reading
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Review of the Year in Architecture: 2018
This year has been one of relentless discussion and argument; one in which very few quarters have been given by either side in the Brexit debate so it would be nice to spend a few moments off the subject and … Continue reading
REVIEW OF THE YEAR: 2017
Last year, in a world capital, a fire in a tower block caused the death of many of its poor inhabitants. This event prompted the national government of that country to immediately bring forward a radical policy to improve the … Continue reading
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First as Farce, then as Farce Again: Boris, the tower and the bridge.
This is a version of a Comment piece I wrote in Blueprint that must’ve been published in early 2010 about the design competition which led to the Arcelor Mittal Orbit and in which Boris Johnson, then mayor had a major … Continue reading
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Tagged boris johnson, garden bridge, kapoor, orbit, thomas heatherwick
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REVIEW OF THE YEAR: 2016
Reviews of the year may seem arbitrary, particularly when it comes to architecture, which by its nature takes years to gestate before it is completed. Yet they have their uses. And not simply because they give harassed editors a no-brainer … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Limits of Europe, Urbanism
Tagged Architecture, lisbon architecture trienal, OMA, prada foundation, rem koolhaas, shatwell farm, zaha hadid
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Anarchy on Wall Street
On 16 September 1920, a wagonload containing 45 kilos of explosives and 230 kilos of lead weights placed outside the JP Morgan bank at 23 Wall Street in New York was detonated, killing 38 people and injuring many more. The … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Design, Photography
Tagged Architecture, bombing, CCA, detroit, New York, paul strand
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Picking Holes In The Pritzker. Or You’re Aravena Laugh.
In his article announcing Alejandrao Aravena as the Pritzker winner Ed Heathcote suggests that handing the prize to the young Chilean architect offers hope to the architecture profession racked with self-doubt over its lack of purpose. “The award is a … Continue reading
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An interview I did with Christopher Lee in a different life.
Although he surely wouldn’t approve, it seems only right and proper to begin a Christopher Lee story with a Dracula anecdote. Actually, it is just over 25 years since Lee took the decision – as he puts it in his autobiography … Continue reading
Architects: it isn’t always about you
The shortlisting of the architecture collective Assemble for the Turner Prize has been a surprise to most commentators in the architectural world. Largely because their story seems rather familiar. Here are a group of young trainee architects and their friends … Continue reading
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Tagged assemble, carmody groarke, exyzt, raumlabor, studio weave
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