All Columnists articles – Page 40
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FeaturesThe sad decline of UK housing
Why are we always in a rush with housing? A basic need, as well the emotional centre of most of our lives, housing is not something you would think we would ever want to hurry into. We simply need to build — warmly, intelligently and well — over the years ...
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OpinionJust stop stating the bleeding obvious
Clichés, Saul? Tell me about it. I’m literally sick of them.
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OpinionWhy I’ll be voting Smurf this year
The Smurfs are celebrating their 50th birthday and in a US election year are really coming to life
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OpinionFearing risk is dangerous
The diminished 2012 Aquatic Centre and The Public are sorry tales of our times, but the danger is that clients will stop commissioning brave architecture
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FeaturesWill China save us from schlock?
A curious to-and-froing exists between the current architectural styles of East and West. Jonathan Glancey wonders how we can get a little bit of ‘qi’ up the Lee River Valley before 2012
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OpinionSharks lurk in ethical waters
Artistic freedom, at a profit, can be a powerful pull over principles on human rights. Where do you draw the line?
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FeaturesWhy I’m not buoyed by Gehl
The acclaimed planning guru is championing public space of unremitting blandness, says Jonathan Glancey
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OpinionThe art of making a quality judgment
If quality is to be judged rather than measured, the government must be ready to step beyond public opinion
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OpinionSaved by the power of love
As Leicester’s Engineering Department is considered for demolition, is passion the only thing that can save the 20th century’s finest buildings?
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OpinionWhy not try some blue sky thinking?
Sick of all those meaningless clichés? Let’s ban them until they are used properly again
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OpinionDon’t just think big, think mega
This week Jonathan Glancey thinks bigger than big — mega, even
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OpinionTime for readers to turn over a new leaf
Interior design has rediscovered nature, so why are architects still so hostile to the joys of floral decoration?
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OpinionCentres without a cause
Cabe may be funding regional architecture centres, but does anyone know what they’re really for?
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FeaturesFilling in the time until 2012
Jonathan Glancey celebrates the New Year with his pick of upcoming year designations, including the hotly anticipated 2009 Year of Jargon
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OpinionLet’s stop flogging this dead old horse
Christmas store displays pastiche the past, but the here and now of real life is better, for architecture
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OpinionYear ends as it began – almost
Eagerness to demolish Pimlico School, sits particularly poorly with the failure of new school designs to pass muster
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OpinionWho gains most from Tate gift?
The government has given the Tate extension a cash boost, but which side really benefits from this generosity?
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OpinionHousing must find room for regulation
With Callcutt’s reminder that business drives housebuilders, the government must act on space
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OpinionThis is the plan: every man for himself
When you get up close to it, the planning process is revealed as a chaotic, counter-productive sham
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OpinionGateway reaches crisis point
Cash, Farrell and positive noises are great, but they cannot hide the fact that the Thames Gateway is in meltdown