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Nothing Will Be Restrained
This short film essay looks at how man has built and talked about elemental architecture forms since the Tower of Babel. It takes the viewer inside the ArcelorMittal Orbit for the first time as well as placing it in historical … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, Architecture, Engineering
Tagged 2012, anish kappoor, boris, cecil balmond, Olympics, orbit
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At Home With Jimmy Carter and Don DeLillo
I read White Noise recently and noticed by chance that Picador have bizarrely just published a 40th anniversary edition of Don DeLillo’s book, although it was first published in 1985. Perhaps it is the accumulated prescience of the book that … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Design, Uncategorized, Urbanism
Tagged Architecture, don delillo, environment, environmentalism, jimmy carter, mike reynolds, steve baer
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Inspiration: Nigel Peake
I have been following the work of illustrator Nigel Peake since I published his student thesis in the Scottish architecture magazine Prospect just before he won a Silver Commendation in the RIBA President’s Medal in 2005. Since then he has … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, Engineering, Uncategorized
Tagged blackfriars, bridges, kennington, London, nigel peake, vauxhall
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Antarctica, industry and the legacy of High Tech.
All Your Base Are Built By Us: High tech and high value manufacturing The new Halley VI research station is the sixth to be built on the floating Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica – a region that has established itself … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Design, Engineering, Technology
Tagged Antarctica, Halley VI, HIgh Tech, Hugh Broughton Architects, norman foster, richard roge, richard rogers
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What Did the Constructivists Ever Do For Us?
With the exhibition Building the Revolution now closed in London, it is worth reflecting on the way in which the achievements of the Constructivists have been revisited and reinvented. Indeed, I would argue that this process rather than any slavish … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture
Tagged building the revolution, constructivists, lost vanguard, osa, soviet, tatlin
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Isi Metzstein 1928 – 2012
I didn’t know Isi Metzstein as well as those who worked with and studied under him nor, of course, his family. Two days after his death now, there will be individuals he worked alongside at the Glasgow School of Art … Continue reading
Las Vegas: Where Architecture Goes to Die.
The history of Las Vegas is in its signs. The famous sign for the Stardust casino is in fact a celebration of the nuclear tests that took place in Nye County about 100km away from Vegas during the 1950s. It … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture
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Taste And The Tower
I want to say something about the history of the relationship between towers and the Olympic Games, leading to a few comments on the outpourings of disgust around the ArcelorMittal Orbit. It is often forgotten that this began with the … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, Engineering, Interview
Tagged anish kapoor, arcelormittal, boris johnson, cecil balmond, eiffel, Olympics, orbit, tower
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Interview: Michael Webb
Michael Webb was born in Henley-on-Thames in England. Along with his fellow members of the Archigram Group, Webb has contributed more than any other British architect to the wholesale revolution in architectural drawing that took place in the 1960s. Co-opting techniques and … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Design, Interview
Tagged archigram, cedric price, konrad wachsmann, maxfield parrish, michael webb, peter cook, reyner banham, richard hamilton
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