All articles by Charles Saumarez Smith
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OpinionWhy is Herzog and de Meuron submitting this bonkers proposal for Liverpool Street?
Herzog and de Meuron’s clumsy proposals for Liverpool Street do not sit easily with the practice’s wider body of work, writes Charles Saumarez Smith
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FeaturesThe age of ostentation is over
Scrapping the Centre for Music and tinkering with the National Gallery mark the start of a quieter era, says former director Charles Saumarez Smith
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OpinionWhy I welcome the rise of east London
Gentrification is not all bad, argues Charles Saumarez Smith, a long-standing resident of the East End
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FeaturesWhy do we create grand spaces
I am, not surprisingly, interested in the design of public buildings, sitting as I do in an office in the National Gallery overlooking the new public space of Trafalgar Square now transformed from a torrent of double-decker buses into an open, more continental plaza.
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ReviewCalm, understated and user friendly
A new book confirms Charles Saumarez Smith's view that Rick Mather's architecture is sophisticated and smooth