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Views from the drawing board, featuring contributions from some of the profession’s best minds
When Design Engine Architects redeveloped the new urban campus for Oxford Brookes University, the hoardings screening the construction site were cleverly branded by the marketing team with the words “Space to Think”; the positive message to the students and staff being that this may be terribly...
In 2021, the UK government made beauty an explicit objective of the English planning system. The Levelling Up and Regeneration Act, which received royal assent on...
AHMM’s Simon Allford on architecture’s relation to our changing society.
Architect Richard Rose-Casemore considers trophies, design narratives and the merits of architecture prizes.
Houston Morris draws on his personal recollections to explain how the late architect has influenced the industry.
I recently went on a private tour of one of the most eccentric private houses I have ever seen. Charles Jenks, who, very sadly died in 2019, was an architect and a polymath. He...
Originally published September 2020. My first visit to Istanbul was part of an architectural tour while studying at the Architectural Association. We were ably led by my tutor,...
Originally published December 2020. It was my friend and sometime neighbour John Stewart’s recent “Blog 7” which started me thinking about the discrediting of historical...
Originally published December 2020. Frank Gehry’s cultural centre in the Bois de Boulogne was born into controversy but is now accepted as a phenomenal piece of architecture...
Originally published March 2022. There are some schools of architecture which are so ‘avant garde’ that actually proposing an architectural solution to an architectural brief is...