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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
Posted in Architecture, Politics, Urbanism
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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
Posted in Architecture, Uncategorized
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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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
Posted in Architecture, Art
Tagged assemble, carmody groarke, exyzt, raumlabor, studio weave
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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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