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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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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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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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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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The Journey of an Accidental Unionist
A few weeks ago, I went to see a play about Scottish independence in the Stratford that doesn’t sit upon the Avon but the Stratford that sits not far from Westminster. I cycled there from my place in Hackney and … Continue reading
In search of the Brutalist churches of America…
I have been trying to find Brutalist churches in the Americas as part of my interest in the different attitudes to Brutalism on either side of the Atlantic. In doing so I came across the story of the demise of … Continue reading
Why I think Ian Nairn is not just rubbish but wrong and rubbish.
The recent BBC 4 documentary on Ian Nairn is just the latest attempt to bolster the reputation of a writer and broadcaster who is often described as desperately needing of rediscovery yet who has in fact had a singular, negative … Continue reading
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Getting the Folk out
Reading the early reviews of the American Folk Art Museum in New York makes you realise that there was a crushing logic to the decision by MOMA’s board to selected Diller Scofidio & Renfro to decide whether any parts of … Continue reading
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Squarepusher and the Geometry of Sound
In one of Arup’s London offices is an array of speakers designed to help architects and acoustic engineers hear how the designs of their spaces will sound when complete. It’s called an ambisonic array. Virtual sound models for proposed concert … Continue reading
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Tagged arup, London, london design festival, sound, squarepusher, tom jenkinson, trafalgar square
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