Transformation of a wasteland
Surviving buildings lend texture to the development, a sense of it having a history
A passionate battler for buildings
A manichaean choice between the organic adaptation of old buildings and the beauty of the new
The Warburg refurbished
The institute used to feel intellectually introverted
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
Will Labour build back better?
The most conspicuous monuments of the last decade are the vast online shopping warehouses
In praise of Spanish practices
What Compostela can teach the City
Why there has been no Street life
G.E. Street built or restored 113 churches for the Oxford diocese alone
Whither the RIBA’s drawings?
Maverick John Harris embarked on the closest Britain has ever got to an architecture museum
A monumental work on British buildings
Gavin Stamp’s posthumous book is a magnificent tour d’horizon, a bible of the styles available to architects between the wars
A wilting wallflower
A once ambitious civic project has devolved into the chaos that is London Wall West
The French far right are losers
Will Rassemblement National will ever be the ruling party?
Tom Stoppard’s Hampstead drama
Best not try to memorise this deceptive Connect Four of relationships — just get into the flow
The case for duelling
A Modest Proposal: If yes to assisted suicide, then why not duelling?
“Scottish visas” would double down on two failed ideas
The plan offers the worst of devolution and mass migration in one policy
Why Twitter needs the libs
Strange as it sounds, we will miss them if they go
Marianna in the trenches
She wants to dive into the murky depths of social media, but her microphone can only scratch the surface
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
Liberal myths of the “good old ways”
Donald Trump’s foreign policy is not so very different from the Democrats’ imagined golden age of American leadership
Bluesky thinking?
The honeymoon phase of the X alternative could be short-lived
The triumph of Irish populism
The three major parties went with what is popular, rather than what is right
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
