Jonathan Meades

Architectural Mecca: Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp, by Le Corbusier

Concrete cuckoo

14 April 2017 11:00 pm

The Catholic Church’s Second Vatican Council provides a salutary example of a tiny ‘elite’ foisting ‘anti-elitist’ practices on the ‘non-elite’…

Wall eyed

28 January 2017 9:00 am

Any impressively long wall is bound to cause us to recall the midfield dynamo and philosopher John Trewick. In 1978…

Barrier method: view of the border line between Mexico and the US in the community of Sasabe in Sonora state, Mexico

Wall eyed

26 January 2017 3:00 pm

Any impressively long wall is bound to cause us to recall the midfield dynamo and philosopher John Trewick. In 1978…

Wet dream

3 September 2016 9:00 am

Utopia dons some unlikely guises, crops up in some odd places. On the sea wall a couple in their teens…

One of the Maunsell Forts at Red Sands near Whitstable: built during world war two as an anti-aircraft gun tower, it became the home of pirate radio in the 1960s

Wet dream

1 September 2016 1:00 pm

Utopia dons some unlikely guises, crops up in some odd places. On the sea wall a couple in their teens…

Hillingdon Civic Centre: a dozen red bungalows clumsily buggering one another

Gaudy! Bright! Loud! Fun!

19 May 2016 1:00 pm

In any epoch most of what is built is mediocre, though we may not realise it at the time because…

Scapegoat for all of urban life’s ills: Le Corbusier, c.1950

Dedicated follower of fascism?

21 May 2015 1:00 pm

The ‘revelations’, 50 years after he drowned, that Le Corbusier was a ‘fascist’ and an anti-Semite are neither fresh nor…

Curators

23 April 2015 1:00 pm

As a purveyor of lairy souvenirs Venice outdoes even Lourdes. The scores of shops and booths that peddle this lagoonal…

Curators

23 April 2015 1:00 pm

As a purveyor of lairy souvenirs Venice outdoes even Lourdes. The scores of shops and booths that peddle this lagoonal…