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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: 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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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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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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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
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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