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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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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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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
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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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
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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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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The Airport Guy
The all-to brief appointment of Daniel Moylan as chairman of the London Legacy Development Company marks a sea-change in the development landscape in London. His departure, after just 7 weeks, marks the end of an 8 year period during which … Continue reading
Posted in Engineering, Urbanism
Tagged airport, boris johnson, London, mayor, moylan
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