Gavin Stamp
FeaturesWar memorials: testaments to our tragic history
Works of art commemorating the dead are perhaps one positive from the first world war, says Gavin Stamp
ReviewSir Albert Richardson: a life goes under the hammer
As his collection is sold by Christie’s, ‘The Professor’ of British architecture deserves to be better remembered
ReviewWilliam Burges and the High Victorian Dream by J Mordaunt Crook
William Burges was a romantic and a dreamer, and his richly detailed work well deserves this weighty volume
ReviewStadia: Sport and Vision in Architecture
Sir John Soane’s Museum’s display of historic athletics venues charts the Olympic journey
ReviewGreat innovations: Dickens and architecture
Dickens’s approach to architecture was more phlegmatic and utilitarian than many bicentenary tributes suggest
ReviewGiles Gilbert Scott: His Son’s View
The text of a 1962 lecture by Richard Gilbert Scott sheds light on a prolific family
ReviewGreat Scott! A Gothic reputation is revived
Next week sees the 200th anniversary of George Gilbert Scott’s birth and, with his masterpiece the Midland Grand Hotel at St Pancras restored, the architect is once more receiving the appreciation he deserves.
ReviewNorman Shaw’s line of beauty
Norman Shaw’s masterly drawings can teach modern practice a thing or two, says Gavin Stamp
ReviewAdvocate for higher things
GF Bodley, the great gothic church designer, fully deserves his show, says Gavin Stamp
ReviewMuthesius comes home
The only shame about this really magnificent century-old work is that the English have been denied it for so long
ReviewA brutal beauty
A new book demonstrates how St Petersburg’s history of suffering is matched by an extraordinary civic pride.
Building StudyHoly order
St George’s Bloomsbury has suffered radical alterations through the ages, but now it has been painstakingly returned to Hawksmoor’s original vision.
ReviewMonuments of a vile dictatorship
Jonathan Meades has made an acerbic yet witty TV programme on Stalinist architecture, says Gavin Stamp
Building StudyThe 600-year-old time machine
Interiors from the 1950s jostle with Victorian details in Stuart Page Architects’ painstaking restoration of Ightham Mote in Kent — the National Trust’s biggest restoration project of its type, which preserves architecture styles as far back at the Middle Ages
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London shouldnt be some exotic zoo
Fashionable French architects seem to be as quaintly ridiculous as French rock stars. Dressed entirely in black, pouting and intense, they try hard to appear as if they have just come from discussing existentialism at the Deux Magots.
Building StudyLiverpool renaissance
A legend in English architectural history, Liverpool’s St George’s Hall became the country’s grandest white elephant. But Purcell Miller Tritton’s refurbishment is set to change that, writes Gavin Stamp.
Building StudyTaming the zoo
Unexciting, say the dons, but two calm buildings by Allies & Morrison restore sanity to Cambridge.