Modern Architecture
Elegant buildings elegantly explained
The Past is no longer something that Was, but one of many possible solutions
Floating buildings at the Biennale
18th Venice Biennale Architettura, 20 May-26 November 2023
Brute pleasures
Let us now praise famous concrete
The beastly East
The question is whether the heart of Whitechapel can keep its character under the pressures of urban development
Defend Liverpool Street Station!
Its charming character is under threat
Architecture’s abysmal ignorance
Artificial Intelligence reveals what experts deny
A forever home
Architecture would be vastly more interesting if clients were happy to pay for character instead of accepting bland uniformity
Stirling work
The Stirling Prize should go to a build outside of London
John Nash is overrated
Against neat-freak planning
Small wonder
Nithurst Farm, in West Sussex, plays games with classical architecture
Reject the culture of death
Darkness lies beyond the euthanasia rubicon
A leadership bid you can’t refuse
Kemi Badenoch goes on a charm offensive
Does vaping do more harm than good?
It seems improbable
Crossing the public health Rubicon
Are there any limits to statist safetyism?
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars
Rite of autumn
Labour is celebrating the harvest and definitely not sacrificing pensioners in the hopes that the gods grant us plenty in the coming fiscal year
Oxford elects
Meet the denizens of Oxford’s disenchanted garden currently competing for the university’s top sinecure
The end of art critics
The critics who are now lackeys of the art world
The decline of industry
English towns faced unique new challenges following deindustrialisation
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
