The conversion of Arsenal's former ground isn't quite the surprising landmark it could have been - but it has achieved the rare feat of creating a modern garden square
Read full article...There is a mismatch between the hyperbole surrounding Nine Elms and the document intended to guide its growth.
Mayors and towers go together like Richard and Judy, or The X Factor's excruciating twins, John and Edward. They are mutually reinforcing, each one helping the other to look and feel good
It's been another mixed week for Lord Rogers. His practice has won the Stirling Prize for the Maggie's cancer care centre in Hammersmith. At the same time his lawyers are chasing £2 million of fees they say he is still owed by developers Qatari Diar following the abandonment of the Rogers-designed redevelopment of Chelsea Barracks.
The Tories want to change how the huge sums raised are handed out — and plenty of projects need support
After 20 years with her late husband Jan Kaplicky’s Future Systems, Amanda Levete has unveiled her first big solo project just off Oxford Street — and it has all of her old partnership’s vision and elegance
The urban beach on the bank of the Seine has proved to be a hit with Parisians. But would it work as well in east London?
There's something about horses in cities. They command space. They change the tempo. They demand respect
It's enough to restore your faith in democracy: an elected councillor of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea dares to tell Historic Royal Palaces, and behind them the royal family, the truth.
When you want to drain a marsh," declared the late President Mitterrand, "you don't consult the frogs"
It's a fair bet that the US State Department didn't reckon on the level of insurgency they have encountered from London's planning authorities.
The husband of a fellow MS sufferer explains why Debbie Purdy’s Law Lords victory is so welcome
Not many months ago we were all born-again disciples of John Maynard Keynes. A new New Deal was on the way in which public pounds spent on good works would wash around the aching bones of the economy like some magical spa treatment
The new Kentish Town Health Centre is bright and functional — so why is it the exception rather than the rule when it comes to medical facilities?
Modern, blingy, pricey Moscow is a far cry from the communist years. But taste and elegance are fast returning to the Russian capital, says Rowan Moore
Today the Mayor unveils his proposals to stop developers building tiny 'Hobbit homes'. But are more restrictions what London really needs?
Your first thought as you approach this year’s Serpentine Pavilion is “where is it?” Last year Frank Gehry erected thumping chunks of timber, and before him Rem Koolhaas put up an inflated Zeppelin. All you see now are some skinny poles and an inch-thick sheet of aluminium
London does not often build homes on this scale. With 2,800 units in one go, the Olympic Village is up there with Sir John Nash's creation of
Regent's Park as one of the capital's great residential set pieces.
Memorials to tragic events can be a fraught business, as the attempts to commemorate 9/11 in New York show
Westminster Abbey, like most large medieval churches, is unfinished business. Its original builders would have imagined towers and spires that were not built for centuries, or ever.
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