Caruso St. John's Tate Britain
The Art Deco/Swedish Grace revival starts here, in the Tate Gallery on London’s Millbank, in the hands of architect Caruso St John. This would have …
We all have namesakes. Presumably, somewhere. People sometimes ask me if I am related to a former Middlesex cricketer who shares my name (I’m not, …
What an entertaining day it’s been. The new ‘Walkie Talkie” tower at 20 Fenchurch Street in the City of London by architect Rafael Vinoly for …
There is no civic building richer in symbolism than the public library. More than a town hall, more than a theatre or concert hall, more …
Sou Fujimoto's Serpentine Pavilion 2013
People spoil it, that’s the trouble. Having been elsewhere during the press scrum of the morning’s preview, I dropped by to look at this year’s …
They are very keen, the Dutch museum people, on telling you that their Rijksmuseum – their National Gallery – is about history as much as …
It has been more than half a century since radical architects at what was then the London County Council designed the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell …
It is 25 years since postwar architecture first started to be recognised as “officially quite good, here and there”. 1987 was the year the system …
Raw space: Tate Modern's tanks
Found objects have long had their place in art, most notably since the provocations of Dadaists such as Duchamp with his ‘readymades’. It’s not the …
The Shard. It’s a very tall building in London. Also outside London, on a clear day, given the distance from which you can see it. …
What do they call those foam-plastic latticework socks they slip over your bottles of booze at airport duty-frees? Do they even have a name? Well, …
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