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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
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
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
A Cathedral Dedicated to Excrement
As London’s sewer system accepts into its gaping maw a huge autumnal deluge, it is worth sparing a thought for those who created it. The Metropolitan Board of Works was created in 1855 to improve the cities infrastructure ‘under the … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, Architecture, Engineering
Tagged Architecture, Bazalgette, design, John Lyall, London, Metropolitan Board of Words, Olympics, sewage, Urbanism
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Ruskin in Venice
The years that John Ruskin spent in Venice are no longer just an important biographical fact about an eminent art Victorian critic. They have become a narrative prism through which to assess architecture’s role in contemporary society. This month the … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Old Things
Tagged Architecture, biennale, gothic, lisa fior, muf, pavilion, politics, ruskin, stones of venice, Urbanism, venice
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Empire State of Mind
I re-read JG Ballard’s Empire of the Sun recently. This was at the same time that I was getting sent beautiful shots of pavilions from the Shanghai Expo, and then writing about it in some kind of historical context. At … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Urbanism
Tagged Architecture, ballard, empire of the sun, heatherwick, pavilion, shanghai, Urbanism
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A drop in the ocean
In July 2007, Hilary Clinton, then a candidate for US President proposed a no-flight zone over Darfur, to prevent the Sudanese government from bombing their own citizens. It was an attempt to call to a halt what has been described … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Engineering
Tagged africa, Architecture, Darfur, Sudan, Urbanism, water
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