Greenwich: Monument to Blair’s Britain
04 December 2009
It’s 10 years since the Greenwich peninsula was at the centre of millennium celebrations, but its redevelopment has proved to be a microcosm of New Labour’s wasted opportunities
Main Page Content:
Urban Trawl
Over the past decade, cities have been at the heart of Britains economic success.
But as the recession starts to bite, BD looks at what the boom, and its ignominious collapse, have done to our urban environments.
Greenwich: Monument to Blair’s Britain
Cardiff: Baudrillard at the Eisteddfod
06 November 2009
With two districts competing for Cardiff’s administrative crown, the result is a city confused by its architectural patchwork
West Riding: Northern exposure
02 October 2009
The stolid Victorian charms of Leeds and Bradford remain intact despite some horrendous redevelopment
Cambridge blues
04 September 2009
Beyond its historic centre, Cambridge’s modern architectural landscape speaks of dislocation and secrecy
Glasgow: Centuries of change
14 August 2009
With its sixties blocks being reclad or demolished, Glasgow has never regained the architectural confidence it showed in the early 20th century
Fog on the Tyne
26 June 2009
Successive waves of regeneration have landed Newcastle and Gateshead with a riot of architectural statements — yet an urban spirit born in the 19th century lives on
Manchester: Heaven knows it’s miserable now
05 June 2009
Manchester is hailed as a flagship for successful regeneration but along the way it has lost all appetite for civic architecture
Sheffield: City of skeletons
15 May 2009
Sheffield remains a unique city set in a spectacular landscape, but the gutted form of Park Hill exemplifies the efforts being spent to make it look like everywhere else
Nottingham: A notty problem
03 April 2009
Nottingham hopes to be ‘2012 world design capital’ but the varying quality of its newer buildings exemplifies the problems of what to do with a post-industrial city
Milton Keynes: End of the space age
06 March 2009
It’s the empty streets and lack of crowds that make Milton Keynes feel civilised — but attempts to bring density to the new town could spell the end for this unique quality
Southampton: What's next for this major port turned mega-retail park?
06 February 2009
Southampton’s reliance on retail and leisure to counter a declining shipping industry has given it a new architectural identity
