A few years ago, I watched a film called ‘The Man Next Door’. It was about an industrial designer living […]
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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 […]
Formidable Firminy
New towns don’t exactly have a great image and are often used as symbols of soullessness, like Cumbernauld in the […]
Learning from La Tourette
The sign at the entrance warns me that this is an espace de silence, a place of silence. I’m thinking […]
Turning a deaf ear
I was at a talk recently where an architect took us through the idea of baugruppen*. This is the German […]
A proper hello
I’m a fool for a doorway. Thankfully, there are several Instagram sites that feed my addiction so I can peruse […]
Utopian dreams and reality
2016 was not exactly a year filled with inspiration and it says something that many of us are greeting 2017 […]
The same old story
My suburb is undergoing an explosion of growth. Due to a change in local planning law, it is now possible […]
Who needs architecture?
My recent trip to Europe was all about nature and walking. Which was completely different to last year’s trip, which […]
The year of Le Corbusier
I’m aware that this site is beginning to look like one dedicated only to Le Corbusier but you must allow […]
