All articles by Ian Martin – Page 3
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OpinionThe Court of Aesthetic Control in session
Mark ‘Buncey’ Buncewell is charged with ravishment and despoilation of a grade II listed 18th century house
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NewsNews Junkie: 7 and 8 July
This week's bizarre vocations include nighthawking, happiness indexing, micro-miniaturising, growth summit chairing, cathedral cloning, stoat-watching and Gore-baiting.
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NewsNews Junkie: 30 June and 1 July
What may 'surprise on the upside' later this year? How might a 'new-new paradigm' protect the British property market from US recession? Who 'relaxed in embroidered slippers in his winged armchair'? Answers below...
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OpinionCommemorating civilisation’s last gasp
Ian Martin makes the most of the last few days before the smoking ban
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NewsNews Junkie: 16 and 17 June
For your browsing pleasure this week: boomtime for bourgeois yurts, a ludic cityscape featuring teddy bears dressed in bridal costumes, and the 'ineluctable modality of the visible...'
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OpinionTamworth — an architectural Life on Mars
Tamworth week is the perfect antitode to the whimsical flutterings down south
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NewsNews Junkie: 9 and 10 June
In this week's patchwork quilt of contemporary Britain: BAA's portfolio of thatched cottages, concerns over our 'cyber carbon footprint', flash mobbers in a silent disco at the Royal Festival Hall and Stephen Bayley, 'weathering nicely in the spume...'
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NewsNews Junkie: 2 and 3 June
This week: how to build a FAT sandcastle, why rooks need fag ends, what a Heteropolitan looks like and how Thatchers' Britain is making a comeback.
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OpinionElegant solutions in intergalactic design
Designing a beautiful solution for an inter-planetary internet is easy — because there isn’t a problem
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OpinionWe must prepare for a post-green world
Architecture should take a tip from the fashion industry and push the next big thing before eco-fatigue sets in, says Ian Martin
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NewsNews Junkie: 26 and 27 May
This week's harvested zeitguff includes spidery organograms, taste validation, jitter-scrubbing architecture...and how one practice landed a massive job with 'a geography lecture'.
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FeaturesRedesigning the public perception of PFI
If we are to rescue the core values of British politics from a bonfire of the vanities there is much to do.
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NewsNews Junkie: 19 and 20 May
In this week's patriotic issue: Britannia harvests the waves, the planning White Paper dismays Lady Caroline Cranbrook, anaerobic digestion in our homes and an 'in-your-face scrotum' at the Chelsea Flower Show.
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NewsNews Junkie: 12 and 13 May
In this week's bumper despatch: a boom in married singletons, David Dimbleby thinks Modernism didn't quite work, why 15 newts cost £315,000, and how an art gallery's credibility disappeared up its own Banksy.
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NewsNews Junkie: 5 and 6 May
This week: Black Death in our wheelie bins, bingo halls in the ashtray of history, and Nigel's apparently the only gay in the media village...
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NewsNews Junkie: 28 and 29 April
In this despatch: bins, earthquakes, Cornwall's sulky surfers, a professor of human radiation, 'tall, brick, barley-sugar chimneys thrusting skywards in a thicket', and why God's not Green.
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OpinionRaising a glass to English architecture
Now we’ve stopped making schoolchildren dance around maypoles and sing the Commonwealth countries in alphabetical order, what does Englishness mean? asks Ian Martin
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NewsNews Junkie: 14 and 15 April
In this week's despatch: the Independent mourns the disappearing British pub, the Telegraph tells us to shut up, and the Mail warns of burglars becoming energy inspectors.