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Tag Archives: London
Mayor nips Foster’s Tulip
On July 15, London Mayor Sadiq Khan nipped Lord Foster’s proposed Tulip in the bud. Fine. But why? It does not “represent world-class architecture,” quoth the mayor. “Mayor rejects ‘unwelcoming, poorly designed’ Tulip,” stated Architects’ Journal. One study declared it … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Development
Tagged Architects Journal, Carbuncle, Gherkin, London, Mayor Sadiq Khan, Norman Foster, Prince Charles, Pritzker Prize, Skyline, Tulip
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Assassin’s Creed does Athens
Here is an eight-minute video on the reconstruction of ancient Athens by game-maker Ubisoft for the latest episode (if that’s what it’s called) of Assassin’s Creed. Previous episodes have invited us into highly realistic reconstructions of Renaissance Venice and Florence … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art and design, Video
Tagged Acropolis, Assassin's Creed, Athens, London, Renaissance Italy, Ubisoft, Video, Video Games
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Moore’s attack on Scruton
One of the Scepter’d Isle’s leading architecture critics, Rowan Moore of the Observer, has crafted an utterly despicable if entirely predictable attack on Sir Roger Scruton. Sir Roger is the British government’s choice to head a panel to bring beauty … Continue reading
Scruton’s first beauty volley
As I mentioned in “Sir Roger’s hunt for beauty,” Roger Scruton has been appointed chairman of a commission to promote beauty in British housing policy. Naturally, all those who are opposed to beauty in architecture are on the warpath against … Continue reading
Wee wow for Bauwauhauses
“Mutts-have: Architects create luxury kennels for charity auction” is the headline of this story by Guardian critic Oliver Wainwright. “Mutts-have”? … I’m sorry, that really does not cut the mustard. Mutts-have ≠ must-have. And if you glide down the complement of … Continue reading
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Tagged Bauhaus, Bow Wow Haus Auction, Dogs, Kennels, London, St Pancras Renaissance London Hotel, Zaha Hadid
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Battering Battersea Station
Owen Hatherley has denounced a large development around the historic Battersea Power Station, in London. I cannot read his piece because it is behind the paywall of The Architects’ Journal. But I do have the next best thing – its … Continue reading
London perceived, tortured
By torture, we’re not talking pins under fingernails, the Iron Maiden or Philip Glass, but how else to describe what the leadership of London has done to the city of London in the last several decades? If a city is … Continue reading
Carbuncle Cup victor of 2017
This year’s Carbuncle Cup, awarded annually (three years now) to the worst new building in Britain, goes to a development called Nova Victoria, so called because it is what you see when you emerge from the Victoria Station tube stop. … Continue reading
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Tagged Carbuncle Cub, Daniel Libeskind, Dezeen, Frank Gehry, London, Pritzker Prize, Victoria Station
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Tragic London tower lesson
The Grenfell Tower that burned in London, costing several score of lives, offers lessons that we can and will again fail to heed. No building can be perfectly fireproof, and no ladder truck can reach beyond 20 stories anyhow. If … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture
Tagged City Planning, Grenfell Tower, London, Manhattan, Simon Jenkins, Urban Density
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