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, …
Alain de Botton's boathouse
Oh, you think. This is a dream, right? You’ve gone up in a lift and there, at the top, at the end of a snaking …
2012