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Some Very Shallow Observations Of The Milan Expo
I am currently writing an article which tries to answer the question what is an Expo for? following my recent trip to to Milan. And I’m realising, it is very hard to talk about the Expo from a completely objective … Continue reading
The Dream of the 80s is Alive in Portland. Just.
A week before the death of Michael Graves, Portland City Council was locked in complex discussions in how to fund the refurbishment of his most famous work, The Portland Building. Home to a fair chunk of the city’s municipal administration, … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Drawing
Tagged Architecture, drawing, drawing matter, Michael Graves, portland building
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You’re The Only Star in Heaven
Jan Kaplicky’s drawings for NASA of the International Space Station are a triumph of that period in history in which our most expansive, ambitious infrastructure, the one that slipped the surly bonds of earth into space, was first conceived by … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Engineering, Technology
Tagged Architecture, future systems, jan kaplicky, nasa
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Chipperfield is wrong about Berlin
It is tempting to see David Chipperfield’s eulogy to Berlin – in opposition to London and other cities – as sour grapes. The English architect is after all engaged in two particularly protracted protests from heritage groups regarding his plans for the … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Urbanism
Tagged Berlin, David Chipperfield, IBA, Sauerbruch Hutton
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Parliament in the abstract
I quite liked Bernard Porter’s suggestion in the London Review of Books that MPs should be removed from the Palace of Westminster during its impending refurbishment. But not for the reason he gave. To suggest that it is only by relocating parliament that “they … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Old Things
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Five of Ebenezer Howard’s ideas that may have accidentally been omitted from the new garden city proposals
Here are a few extracts from Ebenezer Howard’s work Garden Cities of Tomorrow, which give an insight into some of the work’s more pioneering ideas, particularly those that may – for some reason – be overlooked in the planning of … Continue reading
My Top 5 Black Fridays – in chronological order.
PS There is a theme. Can you spot it? 1. Friday 18th November 1910. 300 suffragettes from Women’s Social and Political Union protested at Prime Minister Henry Asquith’s decision to shelve the Conciliation Bill, which would have extended the vote to … Continue reading
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Things That Are Not Mosques. No 35343. A Polish Church.
In the UK the Twitter the hashtag #thingsthatarenotmosques is trending because a member of the UK independence party press team suggested a poll about their credentials as a party of government was biased because it was taking place outside a … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Politics
Tagged #thingsthatarenotmosques, Lukasz Stanek, poland, postmodernism, UKIP, wroclaw
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History Plays a Double Hand
I have recently enjoyed dipping into Love Goes to Buildings on Fire by Will Hermes – a book about the overlap between the different music scenes in New York in the mid seventies. But I only sampled the book, thanks largely to … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art
Tagged Manhattan, moma, New York, One World Trade Center
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Closing Le Corbusier’s Atlas
If you are in Madrid or going there, you have the last chance to see one of my favourite exhibitions in a good number of years. Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes which I saw in New York just … Continue reading
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