All articles by Owen Hatherley – Page 4
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Opinion
Plutocrats or squatters? Your choice
Two towers in different cities give architects a glimpse of the future.
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Building StudyBarrow-in-Furness: kept on life support by perpetual warfare
Once dubbed ’the English Chicago’, Barrow-in-Furness has been kept alive by the nuclear arms industry
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Building StudyPreston: lacking the clout to challenge developers
While this Lancashire town of the industrial revolution has three first-class urban moments they sit in a sea of uncaring dross
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Opinion
Try looking east for inspiration
Serbian activists could teach us a thing or two about the value of modernist social housing
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ReviewArseniusz Romanowicz at Warsaw’s Powisle Station
A display of Polish architect Arseniusz Romanowicz’s railway stations challenges all you know about Soviet design
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Building StudyMiddlesbrough: exploring the ‘least resilient’ place in the UK
Patchy attempts to revive post-industrial towns are producing unsettling results in Teeside, one of Britain’s most blighted regions
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Opinion
Why rebuilding can be a minefield
The re-release of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis demonstrates the importance of honest restoration.
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ReviewChto Delat? The Urgent Need to Struggle
An exploration of the Russian avant-garde at the ICA throws today’s industry into sharp relief
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Opinion
Who do we think we are kidding?
The trend for invoking the Blitz spirit reveals the hollowness of the new architecture of austerity
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Opinion
The resistance to regen starts here
Embracing every regeneration project on offer does no favours to our rundown urban areas
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Opinion
Please keep your references to yourself
Cladding covered with pictures of knives and forks doesn’t make a building any more ’local’.
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Opinion
Your enemy’s enemy is not your friend
Whatever the coalition policies bring, we must avoid any nostalgia for New Labour
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Building StudyEast London Line railway extension
Despite being largely built during the boom, London’s newest transport link is depressingly unambitious
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OpinionSurrey Quays, the real Tory heartland
The Conservative non-planners of the eighties have never been held to account for their legacy
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ReviewSharon Haward: An experiment in Town Planning
Sharon Haward’s installation at Southampton’s Bargate Monument Gallery gives an indication of the city that might have been
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OpinionWhose modernist icon is it anyway?
The Azerbaijani restaurant in Melnikov’s Rusakov club strikes an incongruous note
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OpinionDublin’s docklands, a melting pot of failure
The recession has left Dublin’s half-hearted and half-finished new buildings open to reinterpretation
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OpinionMidtown, the last bastion of shabbiness
Enjoy it while it lasts, the grimy integrity of this central London patch will soon be sandblasted off the map
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ReviewArchitectural drawing out of the wilderness
Laura Oldfield Ford’s ferocious line drawings call for a transformation of everyday space