Tag: Architecture

Total Results: 55


Face it, you'd love to be one of these people. Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images
09/02/2021 - 1:25am

Life is one big status game The battle to be virtuous inspires endless political cruelty

Ed West

Tuesday, May 18

18.05

The death of Basildon The decaying bellwether town has been ignored by both the Tories and Labour

Gavin Haynes

Monday, December 28

28.12

Why architecture is political The blandness of today's global style reflects a worldview intent on crushing tradition

Aris Roussinos

Tuesday, November 24

24.11

Must we always demolish the past? The culture police always feels it has the right to dismiss and destroy

Jonathan Glancey

Tuesday, September 1

01.09

Why the future of tech is trad not rad We should never incorporate new technology into our lives just because it’s new

Peter Franklin

Tuesday, June 9

09.06

Is it time to move to Milton Keynes? The subject of so much mockery over the decades is apparently the perfect post-Covid city

Jonn Elledge

Monday, June 1

01.06

Could coronavirus topple skyscrapers? High-rise architecture was built for a globalised world without infectious disease

Peter Franklin

Monday, November 18

18.11

Let the state demolish bad new buildings How to make starchitects design with due regard to the common good

Peter Franklin

Thursday, October 24

24.10

There’s no such thing as Left versus Right There’s so much more to politics than the market and the state

Peter Franklin

Friday, October 4

04.10

How communities lost their soul In a globalised world 'place' matters more than ever — yet most people feel they have no control over their towns

Nicholas Boys Smith

Wednesday, August 7

07.08

Boris should make Britain beautiful again

Peter Franklin

Friday, June 21

21.06

How beauty shapes our fates The aesthetics of where we live are essential to human flourishing

Phillip Blond