Opinion
“A city is more than just the sum of its previous behaviours”
“So spectacularly ill-judged that you almost long for Libeskind’s earnestness”
“Design fairs fail to represent what’s going on in the rest of the world”
“Have we reached peak peak?”
“There was good brutalism and bad, but even the bad was done in earnest”
“What might the future of Scottish architecture be in an independent state?”
“London’s new typology: the tasteful modernist non-dom investment”
“Holidays bring out the best in designers”
“Regeneration is simply a sugar-coated euphemism for gentrification”
“Experience a version of history without the homework”
“Making something big happen at an urban scale is more than a popularity contest”
“Elements makes you unutterably sad for Koolhaas and what he thinks architecture is”
“History has become a trove of artefacts ready for appropriation”
“The car is dead, long live the car”
“Six points of viral architecture”
“Apple has taken the minimal aesthetic too far”
“Cities that score well barely qualify as cities”
“No one will ever write a book called Zen and the Art of iPhone Maintenance”
“A blob, a bridge, a tower, and a subway stop”
“There’s still one more park taboo to be broken”
“What is it exactly we’re protesting about?”
“It’s time for architects to make their own demands”
“Marketing, architecture and development can be an incredibly powerful combination”
