Architecture
Floating buildings at the Biennale
18th Venice Biennale Architettura, 20 May-26 November 2023
The North Riding, rediscovered
A welcome addition to Yorkshire volumes
How gown destroyed town
The decline and fall of the dreaming spires and their replacement by shuttered shops, sad cafés and mothballed pubs
The preserve of the forelock-tuggers
Modern Buildings in Britain offers an encyclopaedia of potential future losses
Stamp collection
A pivotal figure in the move against modernism
Moray berth
A northern light shows the way
Brute pleasures
Let us now praise famous concrete
Pyramids for piggies and Gothic privies
Mixed in with the whimsical, the eccentric and the downright weird, there are masterpieces
Building for eternity
Earlier generations of Britons built for the next generation –– but we’re stuck in a selfish present
Normandy’s English connection
The region combines ancient and modern splendours with an eye turned ever northwards
“Trope” is not a synonym of “lie”
You cannot dismiss an argument by calling it a trope
Carole Cadwalladr’s conspiracy theory
The feverish paranoia obscures valid questions
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
Tom Stoppard’s Hampstead drama
Best not try to memorise this deceptive Connect Four of relationships — just get into the flow
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
The iconoclast’s last defence
Artistic excuses for Just Stop Oil are confused and opportunistic
Against autumn
Throw away your Pumpkin Spice Lattes
Is this just fantasy?
Sir Brian May is wrong: farmers do care
Schrödinger’s Culture War
Is it a myth or a tremendous success?
The war on women’s spaces
Roxanne Tickle’s legal triumph is nothing to giggle at
