Modern Architecture
Blueprint for a starchitect
Robert A. M. Stern’s approach to designing buildings combines exuberance with historicism
Dreamy spires
Oxford’s brilliant modern buildings
Manifesto for traditional elegance
Classicism’s enduring relevance and timeless appeal
New development will ruin the National Theatre
Make Architects’ disastrous plans risk destroying the character of the South Bank
Burrell 2.0
The Burrell Collection’s second chance to capture the hearts of Glasgow
Stumbling blocks
Owen Hatherley offers a vital but frequently flawed guide to post-war British architecture
Urban skirmish
The new Chelsea Barracks is striking for its forgetfulness
Flawed primer on a Classical master
A new book on Decimus Burton, Victorian England’s “pagan” architect
Light Lines: The Architectural Photographs of Hélène Binet
Binet’s photographs find beauty in unexpected places
Architectural urbanicide
Our societies have allowed special interests to tear down living architecture
Winning sinner
That 1999 Tour needed Armstrong quite as much as he needed it
The sadness of Sceptical Man
Emotion need not entail irrationality, and fence-sitting need not involve wisdom
Immigration restrictionists need more honest arguments
Our debates are side-stepping fundamental questions of morality
The conspiracy illusion
Marianna Spring is looking at the finger, not the moon
The “conversion therapy” ban still makes for bad law
Recent amendments have failed to answer serious concerns about its implications
Prepare for takeoff
Masters of the Air is a visually impressive aerial WW2 adventure with the potential to go far
Cognition porn and discursive dehumanisation
Cultural and political discourse can follow the reductive yet seductive logic of pornography
The building that inspired Orwell
Was there an appetite at the time for monumental buildings, equivalent to those in Moscow?
Ireland has become an exporter of gender ideology
An architect of Irish trans policy has been elected Human Rights Commissioner of the Council of Europe
Why we should resist this “conversion therapy” ban
It would enshrine dubious claims as unarguable facts, and it endangers freedom and young people
Immigration enthusiasts and problematic polling
New analysis made British voters look far more pro-migration than they are
