Architecture

Why don’t we care about twentieth century traditional buildings?

The demolition of M&S on Oxford Street is indicative of a wider attitude towards interwar architecture

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What’s ugly, basic and has no walls?

The ExploreStation initiative has produced a nowhere-design which serves nobody

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House of fun

The Cosmic House breaks through the orthodoxies of modernism with its game-playing, colour and ornament

On Architecture
Classical architecture’s counter-attack

Reed’s great book exposes the ugliness and illiteracy of Modernism

Books
Studio: UNES-GO

Liverpool in the wake of losing its UNESCO world heritage status

Studio
Killing the London Custom House

It’s every bland, soulless, “luxury” hotel development that has been proposed for the past thirty years

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The Critic’s new home

Ecclesiastical textiles, Regency architecture and relief carvings: welcome to The Critic’s new address

On Architecture
City of pricks

London is no longer a Victorian city constructed on a medieval street plan, but a collection of cheapskate towers and characterless streets

On Architecture
A drawing is worth a thousand photographs

This collection of measured drawings recovers the backbone of architectural education

Books
The bludgeoning of Brick Lane

Prioritising millionaires over working class communities is now standard practice for London Labourites

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