Architecture
Make architecture art again
Attractive architecture should draw from the past while looking to the future
Bevis Marks Synagogue
Britain’s oldest purpose-built synagogue faces a new, more insidious threat
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
Keystones of Britain’s history
Far too many young people are woefully ignorant of the splendour and meaning of our rich ecclesiastical architecture
The building that inspired Orwell
Was there an appetite at the time for monumental buildings, equivalent to those in Moscow?
Finding the middle ground
Where do the acts too big for pubs but too small for arenas play?
Scratches in the stonework of history
A new history of graffiti and rebellion is less light and bawdy than one may have expected
A wealth of Irish architecture
Editorial errors do not spoil a fine work of Irish architectural history
Kilkenny’s golden age
A fascinating exploration of Irish history could have been better and more comprehensively illustrated
We must escape Subtopia
As Ian Nairn warned, British town planning has had a grim levelling effect on our urban and rural spaces