All Columnists articles – Page 36
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OpinionThe Venice Biennale has become reflection of the state architecture is in
It may be unfair to compare the most important and expensive scientific experiment the world has ever known with a two-month-long architecture extravaganza, but the real cultural event of this week was not the opening of the Venice Biennale but the switching on of the Large Hadron Collider.
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OpinionThe real truth is: you are where you eat
Last week’s ‘fat map’ of Britain set a challenge for architects and planners
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FeaturesA brief for the unthinkable
Rogers made a creditable go of the brief for Terminal 5 but moving the capital’s main airport to the Kent coast would aid passengers, while the west London site could be reborn as an exemplar of good architecture
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OpinionPlease ditch the mudslinging
Don’t let this autumn’s Le Corbusier and Palladio shows be used to settle old scores
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OpinionAn Olympic-sized mistake
Policy Exchange’s ideas on northern decline have a lot to say about prospects, but not a lot about people
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OpinionIs losing the bid now a better option?
Convoluted EU procurement rules are a circle of hell. Let’s junk them and start again
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FeaturesOur turn to give back to Soane
Sir John Soane’s Museum, that invaluable cabinet of curiosities, is appealing for funds for its Open Up the Soane project.
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OpinionWe need to talk about Kevin
Kevin McCloud is right to want to raise the standard of housebuilding, but first he must learn how to be a good developer
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OpinionWhen the fall guy is a very tall guy
As soon as a crime’s gone down, the TV cameras turn on an innocent tower block...
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FeaturesRailing against the cult of retail
Allies & Morrison and Foreign Office Architects are set to redesign Euston and Birmingham New Street rail stations — but the developer’s need for a quick return on investment could trump good architecture
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OpinionYour breakfast can change the world
Feeding cities has a greater physical impact on the planet than anything else we do
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OpinionWhy nothing’s as simple as it seems
What do the US gun lobby and Buckminster Fuller have in common?
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OpinionDid the festival miss a trick?
This year’s London Festival of Architecture was great fun and a huge achievement, but it could have had a clearer message
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FeaturesNon-transferable art appreciation
How can Margaret Hodge be so sensitive about music and so crass about architecture, wonders Jonathan Glancey
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OpinionIs Banksy a better role model?
RMJM’s offer of £1 million to help turn street graffiti artists into architects is well meant and generous, but is it really helpful?
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OpinionTowers set the test for Boris
Mayor Johnson’s reaction to the proposed high-rise cluster of towers in Shoreditch will give an early indication of his real vision for London
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OpinionHuman touch can revive social housing
As Robin Hood Gardens fails to win a reprieve, we must find ways to use ageing concrete estates
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FeaturesThe garish lipstick on the pig
An exhibition of Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershoi’s work at the RA shows how to achieve rewarding domestic architecture without resort to lime green
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OpinionWhere's the science bit?
Since the BRE was privatised, serious research has been replaced by meaningless PR initiatives
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OpinionIn politics, the architecture’s electronic
When politics happened in places, the venue matched the cause. Now it has lost its context