Modern Architecture
Brutalist beauties
These monstrosities were imposed on the population, not desired
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
Towards a hospitable environmentalism
Green ideas must transcend misanthropy and austerity
Advertisements for themselves
Michael Craig-Martin and the sad afterlife of conceptual art
Not a dull phrase
Ethel Smyth: 2nd sonata &c (Delphian)
Suella all along
You can achieve anything if you don’t take the credit
Fear Ireland’s shadow banks
The Emerald Isle is ripe for a volatile market correction
More than one way to skin a cat
The thing about formulae is that they’re an aid, not a guide
When geek culture was good
A celebration of Spaced
Something has gone very wrong with “human rights”
When the “rights” of foreign sex criminals are being prioritised above the safety of Britons, we need change
The bastard son of democratic aestheticisation
How Donald Trump made populism funny
Merkel the Disaster
The sad dolts in the room are wrong about the former German chancellor
Landfill indie remembered
A Golden Age? It was barely a Plastic Age
