All Columnists articles – Page 36
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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
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FeaturesThe challenge of accessibility
Buzzwords like ‘accessibility’ and ‘sustainability’ mask a tendency to talk down to a public craving for architecture of substance