A Walk Around Alt-Erlaa, Vienna
This article was originally published in BD:Online, 30 April 2018. Imagine an architectural pitch. A new housing project in the suburbs...
A Walk Around Croydon
This article was originally published in BD:Online, 5 March 2018. Croydon is being talked about a lot in design and development circles...
Buildings: City of London Police Station, Wood Street
McMorran and Whitby’s City of London Police Station (1965) appears like an architectural missing link. The rustication of its lower...
Lighthouses: The trials and tribulations of the London Board School
“It’s a very cheery thing to come into London by any of these lines which run high and allow you to look down upon the houses like this.”...
The Prickly Pear: The National Centre For Popular Music in Sheffield
The Distance Between an Idea and its Fruition at The National Centre for Popular Music, Sheffield. All major construction projects start...
Book Review: London – The Unique City, Steen Eiler Rasmussen (1934)
“London’s contribution to architecture is simplicity”. Some architects are best known for what they have produced, and some for what they...
Urban experiments, a stopped clock and the practice of everyday life
In the autumn of 1981, a group of Parisian teenagers goaded each other into staying the night in The Panthéon, the national monument to...
Walking With Pepys at Moorfields, London
Samuel Pepys did not like to stand still. He was an active participant in city life, in work and in leisure. Among his outings, he...
Glorify the Brick: Louis Kahn at the Design Museum
Louis Kahn has been known as the architect’s architect. Others have had that title before him and a few have since. Aalto, Asplund,...
Hamilton after Venturi Scott Brown and Saenredam
There is a very small room in the National Gallery that contains a selection of Flemish architectural paintings. There is something...
