A few years ago, I watched a film called ‘The Man Next Door’. It was about an industrial designer living […]
Archive for ‘Architecture’
A Glasgow kiss
I’m posting my pieces on two rather wonderful buildings in Glasgow, which were part of the Lost and Found: Glasgow […]
Who teaches us about architecture?
The other day I visited an exhibition in the lobby of one of Sydney’s finest office towers, Australia Square. Completed […]
The bare necessities
As I walk into the hotel lobby I notice two things: the stupendous view over Lake Lucerne on one side, […]
How many Le Corbusier buildings is enough?
The lovely team of Brutalists at Greyscape noticed that I have a thing for Le Corbusier and asked for my […]
Losing the blues in Chicago
A warm glow comes over me whenever I think of Chicago. My trip there some years back was memorable in […]
The masque of Italy
If you haven’t already visited Venice then I’m sure it’s on your bucket list. There is simply no place like […]
The curse of open plan
Sometime in the last two decades it appears we became a nation of claustrophobes. Or that’s what it looks like […]
Formidable Firminy
New towns don’t exactly have a great image and are often used as symbols of soullessness, like Cumbernauld in the […]
The wheels on the roof go round and round
These days so much architecture is about appearance, making a big statement and attracting the eye (and the Instagram account). […]
