All articles by Tarek Merlin
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BlogsElectric Dreams
Pylons have a huge visual and physical impact - if we don’t get them right we all have to live the consequences
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BlogsSeasonal adjustment
The Serpentine Gallery’s summer pavilion has delighted for more than a decade. But is it time to change the architectural criterion?
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BlogsArchitects have moved on from this outdated caricature
A discussion on the profession revealed that many still regard us as out-of-touch client-ignoring Hooray Henrys
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BlogsHigh Street living
What intrigued me when I was ten, as it still does today, was the bizarre quality of living somewhere where you are not supposed to.
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BlogsLost in the supermarket
Surely there’s an alternative to the joyless experience that food shopping has become
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BlogsFoster comes across better than his buildings
Last week I was invited to a screening of How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr Foster? at the ICA, a documentary profile of the award-winning architect Norman Foster.
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BlogsWeekends away
Planning a weekend get away for a bunch of architect friends can be a bit of a poisoned chalice.
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BlogsIs this the end of playtime?
Google’s new offices follow the familiar workplace-as-playground theme. So is it time we started to get serious about work?
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BlogsAfter a fashion
Architecture and fashion owe a great deal to one another, but the partnership is not always a match made in heaven
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BlogsThe Trespafication of The Nation
Is it just me or is almost every new building clad in Trespa?