Architecture
Studio: UNES-GO
Liverpool in the wake of losing its UNESCO world heritage status
Killing the London Custom House
It’s every bland, soulless, “luxury” hotel development that has been proposed for the past thirty years
The Critic’s new home
Ecclesiastical textiles, Regency architecture and relief carvings: welcome to The Critic’s new address
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
A drawing is worth a thousand photographs
This collection of measured drawings recovers the backbone of architectural education
The bludgeoning of Brick Lane
Prioritising millionaires over working class communities is now standard practice for London Labourites
Architectural historian against the world
John Martin Robinson’s second memoir pulls no punches against the cult of Modernism
Modernist architecture melts our brains
Findings from lockdown suggest environments lacking the complexity of life may pose a threat to humanity
Still making dystopia
What have modern architects learned from their most trenchant critic?
Monuments to victory and loss
This is a beautifully illustrated, handsomely printed and thorough, scholarly exposition of the triumphal arch