13+ hour, 36+ min ago  (918+ words) The Spectator Australia Get ready for the ugliest building in the City of London The City of London is not noted for its beauty. Most great European cities expect their historic streets to retain visual integrity, their modern buildings to…...

1+ week, 17+ hour ago  (1177+ words) The Spectator Australia The dirty secrets of the Royal Festival Hall The Festival of Britain " that much mythologised moment of national renewal " is wheeled out every time the country goes through an identity crisis. An echo of the Great Exhibition,…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago  (338+ words) The best Brutalist architects were careful craftsmen Brutalism is seen as more than just a style of building, but rather as the embodiment of an anti-human philosophy of social engineering, utilitarianism and urban planning, one dominated by socialist theories and…...

11+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1164+ words) A little under a year ago, it emerged that builders working on the redevelopment of the National Gallery's Sainsbury Wing" Decent redesign, ravishing rehang: the new-look National Gallery reviewed A little under a year ago, it emerged that builders working…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (238+ words) Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, until 3 May Two Temple Place, until 19 April Various locations, until 14 February At the end of last week, I caught a budget flight to Milan to see a woman. As soon as I arrived I was…...

4+ mon, 6+ day ago  (291+ words) Lund Humphries, pp. 192, 55 If Carlo Scarpa were as well known as Le Corbusier, modernism might not be so reviled. This architetto poeta grew up in Vicenza, whose 21 buildings by Palladio surely had a formative influence on his fast- evolving artistic…...

9+ mon, 17+ hour ago  (369+ words) Basic Books, pp. 336, 25 But "modern" and "design" are inextricably linked. Franco Albini"s handrails for the Milan metro? Raymond Loewy"s Studebaker Avanti? Charles Eames"s chair, which he designed for Billy Wilder? Ubiquitous Apples? All are frequently cited as…...