New York

The Seagram Building, Park Avenue, New York

Man of steel and glass

15 February 2014 9:00 am

Modern Architecture, capitalised thus, is now securely and uncontroversially compartmentalised into art history, its bombast muted, its hard-edge revolutions blurred…

Hotel Chelsea

Unmade in Chelsea

8 February 2014 9:00 am

Once below a time (to quote the man himself) the bloated poet Dylan Thomas slouched back to New York’s Chelsea…

High life

7 December 2013 9:00 am

 New York I’m in an extremely happy state as I write this because a young Englishman flew over the ocean…

High life

30 November 2013 9:00 am

New York   Nature is at her best right now, the leaves still holding, Central Park awash in golden browns…

High life

2 November 2013 9:00 am

New York Hot money from China, India, Russia and Singapore is pouring into London; hotter money from the same countries…

High life

5 October 2013 9:00 am

 New York The trouble with driving into the city is nostalgia. Manhattan Island looms into view and it still has…