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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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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
Gillespie Kidd and Coia finally getting props
This week sees the start of the Mountain Biking at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow: which will tickle the whiskers of very few of the readers of this blog, I realise. However, the event marks in many ways the final … Continue reading
Mr Goldberg’s Bridges in the Sky
One of the great forestalled ideas in the repetoire of 20th century utopian urbanism is the skybridge. This idea of a new elevated street hierarchy was first pioneered by Ludwig Hilberseimer in his book City Plan which he published whilst … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Engineering, Image of the week, Urbanism
Tagged Architecture, Bertrand Goldberg, chicago, hilberseimer, river city
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Jane Drew: A Teller of Stories
We know little of Jane Drew through her writing. Of course, she co-authored works on building in the tropics with her husband but these are generally technical in nature; part of the programme of international expertise that Drew was part … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture
Tagged Architecture, Chandigarh, Jane Drew, le corbusier, Maxwell Fry, modernism, Ove Arup, Walter Gropius
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The Rockefeller Center Wants To Disappear or Something That I Thought When I Went to New York Recently Part II
It didn’t turn out quite as I had expected. From the moment the tour guide announced that he had helped Andrew WK write the lyrics for his latest album to watching the outside audience for NBC’s Today Show form an … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Engineering, Urbanism
Tagged Delirious New York, Diego Rivera, Marshall Berman, rem koolhaas, Rockefeller
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On the urban character of the Arab Spring
It may have started with noble intentions; to halt the idea that social media somehow brought about the Arab Spring and to remind us that real protest – people in the street – actually delivered the end of regimes. However, … Continue reading
The Highline and Social Voyeurism or Something That I Thought When I Went to New York Recently Part 1
There is something pleasantly unsettling about the Highline and it is not just the richness of the plantings in an urban context; prairie dropseed; spiked gayfeather; wild quinine; yeah whatever. It is the inversion of the usual egocentric co-ordinates of … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Design, Urbanism
Tagged Diller and Scofidio, High Line, New York, Voyeurism
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