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Views from the drawing board, featuring contributions from some of the profession’s best minds
AHMM’s Simon Allford on architecture’s relation to our changing society.
At 80 Charlotte Street in Fitzrovia, Derwent London’s largest development to date, we have made a substantial commitment to ‘handmade’ materials and finishes. The fact that we...
While his buildings were strikingly modern and fun, he was keen to connect them to their context and the past. This article was originally published in November 2019. One of the...
This article was originally published in June 2020. Staying with family friends in Chicago back in the 70s I had an early introduction to a couple of the world’s great...
This article was originally published in March 2020. This is the title of a Stereophonics song, but it also evokes yet another trend which Europe has sleepwalked into adopting...
The best can come out of the worst – if we work (in our office) at it! As an architect I need to be an optimist – it is part of my survival kit. That does not make me unaware of...
Travels through the architecture of Wyntoon, Disneyland and downtown Los Angeles.
This article was originally published in March 2019. How a whisky magnate’s daughter fought to build a skyscraper that still takes the breath away. I must confess that I am not...
On architecture, space and affective experience.
This article was first published in March 2018. After a break of a year, it is always a shocking experience to stand at the top of the Cresta run again, preparing to hurl myself...