Planning
We must escape Subtopia
As Ian Nairn warned, British town planning has had a grim levelling effect on our urban and rural spaces
Dumb, glum and zero-sum
British thinking has to value supply more than distribution
Planning to fail
Britain’s population is rapidly growing but the authorities seem implacably opposed to building new houses
How to deface a national treasure
Once lauded as one of the most charming historic cities in England, Cambridge is being ruined by architectural monstrosities and ill-thought-out traffic schemes
A bid to inspire future architects
The Farrell Centre opens the door to architecture.
The failure of central planning
It didn’t work in the late 1940s or the early 2020s
New development will ruin the National Theatre
Make Architects’ disastrous plans risk destroying the character of the South Bank
On a pedestal?
Give up joyless meat-hating for Lent
Killing the London Custom House
It’s every bland, soulless, “luxury” hotel development that has been proposed for the past thirty years