All articles by Catherine Croft – Page 2

  • Claudio Silvestrin’s Panetteria Princi in Milan: quality food and materials.
    Review

    Tickling the tastebuds

    2007-05-25T00:00:00Z

    This latest addition to the genre is sometimes succulent, but leaves you far from replete

  • Review

    The war of Smoot’s ear begins

    2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

    Robert Tavernor’s entertaining and thought-provoking lecture challenges how we measure

  • Domestic bliss? “Houseful of Plastics”, taken from Life magazine, 1952.
    Review

    The home front, US style

    2007-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Modern architecture is intrinsically tied up with war, argues this US-centric book reviewed by Catherine Croft

  • Jane and Louise Wilson, Stasi City, 1997.
    Review

    Space fails to travel

    2007-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Jane Rendell’s inspirational ideas on the limits of art and architecture suffered in the lecture format.

  • Review

    Spanning a diverse art

    2006-11-24T00:00:00Z

    An exhibition and book of Eric Lyons’ Span and other work have substance as well celebrating his style.

  • Riding the wave: Wig Worland’s photo shows a skater on the canopy of a post-war shopping parade.
    Review

    Skating over the surface

    2006-08-04T00:00:00Z

    Skateboarding and Nazi holiday camps make strange bedfellows at the Architecture Foundation’s latest exhibition

  • Sasha, cardboard model by Andrew Lewis.
    Review

    Lost in space

    2006-07-28T00:00:00Z

    Archipeinture, at Camden Arts Centre, addresses the ways artists depict the organisation of space. But, says Catherine Croft, it could do with a little more context

  • Lutyens’s Thiepval Memorial, with the graves of French unknown soldiers in the foreground.
    Review

    Dulce et decorum est

    2006-07-07T00:00:00Z

    On the anniversary of the Somme, Gavin Stamp’s study of Lutyens’s Thiepval memorial is a provocative but fitting tribute.

  • Foreign Office Architects’ labyrinthine installation makes use of the Barbican space to its best advantage.
    Review

    Urban legends

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    All the big names may be there, but the Future City show is not for the uninitiated

  • Kew Palace, with the new lift shaft on the site of the former privy shaft.
    Building Study

    Palace coup

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

    Purcell Miller Tritton's refurbishment of Kew Palace is discreet and authentic, even down to the position of the new lift shaft. Now it's access for all, if a bit heavy on the ‘interpretation'

  • Oskar Schlemmer’s Diver costume from his Triadic Ballet, 1922.
    Review

    Architecture's great leap forward

    2006-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Ideas and ideals are prominent in the V&A's ambitious and stimulating Modernism exhibition

  • Calum Storrie’s Delirious Museum creates his ideal museum through an interplay of museums, architects and cultural figures over five centuries.
    Review

    Repository of the imagination

    2006-03-24T00:00:00Z

    Calum Storrie's fantasy Delirious Museum gets to the heart of museums' nature.

  • The front elevation to Gordon Street. The metal brise soleil creates a moire pattern that reflects the research being carried on inside.
    Building Study

    Shrink wrapped

    2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

    Designing a centre for scientists working in nanotechnology, Feilden Clegg Bradley faced a rigid technical brief. Despite this, its new research centre is both delicate and confident, giving UCL's Bloomsbury campus a new front door.. Photos by Tim Soar

  • Diamond Vaults curator Zoë Opacic.
    Review

    From the vaults

    2005-11-18T00:00:00Z

    Could an exhibition of gothic vaults influence today’s architects?

  • Living room of Eileen Gray’s 1920s E 1027 house, built on the house at Roquebrune near Monaco.
    Review

    Gray areas remain unexplored

    2005-09-23T00:00:00Z

    A retrospective on pioneering modernist Eileen Gray needs more explanation, says Catherine Croft

  • The roof is supported on seven triangular trusses sitting on slender circular columns braced by I-section portals.
    Building Study

    Slice of urban

    2005-07-22T00:00:00Z

    Assertive yet portable, Southwark’s new public face offers a taster for the Olympics

  • Review

    Heres one I prepared earlier

    2005-06-03T00:00:00Z

    A new book vents frustration at architects’ lack of vision for prefabricated housing

  • Ornamental moment: the shadow of railings on the ridged treads and smooth risers of a spiralling external stair, photographed by Gertrud Koch.
    Review

    In love with a German film star

    2005-03-24T00:00:00Z

    Catherine Croft struggles to find the thread in a book on Kracauer

  • Marie-José van Hee’s Leeuws & Croes house in Ghent
    Building Study

    More room at the top

    2005-02-18T00:00:00Z

    Three decades after Denise Scott Brown lamented sexism in architecture, women still feel forced to hide their identities. We look behind the disguises at some of world’s most interesting women architects

  • 10 Palace Gate
    Building Study

    Coates, the comeback kid

    2005-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Flamboyant in his time, but often underrated today, modern architect Wells Coates is back in the limelight with the restoration of his three signature buildings.