Notes on… Nucleus, the shiny new slightly secret nuclear archive
Doubtless Spectator readers based in Caithness will scoff when I say that the old fishing port of Wick (top right…
Did the Grenfell Tower fire put paid to the social housing ideal?
As a schoolboy, I used to go round to my best mate Mike’s home. It was a good place: a…
The old ways
I’m sitting across a café table from a young man with a sheaf of drawings that have an archive look…
Lost in the metropolis
Richard Rogers is to architecture what Jamie Oliver is to cookery. It is not enough for either of them just…
Greater Oxbridge
Oxbridge is an ivory-tower state of mind, perhaps, or at least two ancient rival universities, but how about this: in…
Towering extravagance
The Shard is an unnecessary building. Nobody apart from its developer asked for it to be built. Nobody was crying…
Building block
What a strange affair it now seems, the Mansion House Square brouhaha. How very revealing of the battle for the…
Building block
What a strange affair it now seems, the Mansion House Square brouhaha. How very revealing of the battle for the…
Highly undesirable
Most of us just live in cities, or travel to see them and take them pretty much as they come,…
Giving Tate Modern a lift
Tate Modern, badly overcrowded, has built itself a £260 million extension to spread everyone about the place more. This means…
