All Gillian Darley articles – Page 3
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OpinionLessons from Lansbury
A new V A exhibition in the heart of the East End’s Lansbury Estate showcases the ambitions of post war planning which should be a model for new housing, says Gillian Darley
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OpinionReinventing our relationship with materials
The centenary of HP Berlage’s Holland House provides an opportunity to celebrate how materials combine technology and aesthetics, argues Gillian Darley
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OpinionWhat former Soviet republics can teach us about ruin porn and pizza chains
Britain’s attitude to buildings no longer wanted is hit and miss, Gillian Darley finds
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OpinionWhat's Europe ever done for us... apart from all this?
Gillian Darley travels to Leave country where she finds a lot of European money
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OpinionPlanners: Your country needs you (but no one will admit it)
In the UK we push planners to the margins. In the Netherlands their expertise is valued by government. Which do you think is working best, asks Gillian Darley
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OpinionPostcards from continental railway stations
Gillian Darley hails a new generation of European stations and asks what we can learn
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OpinionThe Green Belt is protected for a reason
Gillian Darley says a visit to Cairo or Delhi shows what can go wrong
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OpinionYou've got to laugh or you'd cry
Gillian Darley aims to cheer with her trawl through the funniest architecture in literature
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OpinionNo room for sheltered housing in the new look East London
Gillian Darley says Sainsbury’s proposed Whitechapel development which towers over a grade I listed almshouse is a metaphor for the loss of East London’s traditional urban fabric
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OpinionWhat Yorkshire monks could teach the Environment Agency about flooding
Gillian Darley uncovers a story of hope – and beavers – amid the devastation in the north
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OpinionThe closure of this pool is a symbol of the austerity to come
Napper Collerton’s Elswick Pool was a good building loved by the community. But that counts for nothing in the face of savage cuts, writes Gillian Darley
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OpinionElisabeth Scott's passport out of the shadows
Once the most famous ‘girl architect’ in the country, Elisabeth Scott spent the rest of her career in relative obscurity. Her appearance as one of only two women in the new passport is welcomed by Gillian Darley
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OpinionWhen collaboration works
Mutual respect, like that between Kim Wilkie and Niall McLaughlin at the Natural History Museum, is key for partnerships to flourish, says Gillian Darley
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OpinionFraying at the edge
Barking Riverside? This isolated settlement is neither, finds Gillian Darley
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OpinionPhilip Webb can't avoid the limelight for ever
In his centenary year, it is time to make a fuss of William Morris’ unassuming collaborator, says Gillian Darley
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OpinionOn what might have been
Unbuilt, unused and unappreciated. Gillian Darley explores architectural waste in all its forms
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OpinionScream if you want to go faster
As Dreamland in Margate reopens, Gillian Darley gets all nostalgic about the future
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OpinionRemembering an age when we cared about landscaping the nation's infrastructure
Gillian Darley celebrates two women who influenced the shape of so much of our landscape, from new towns to forests
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OpinionIt's the architecture critic wot won it
Today’s architectural writers wield their influence to powerful political effect, argues Gillian Darley as the election looms
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OpinionWhat are you laughing at?
Gillian Darley doesn’t know whether to laugh or cry this April Fool’s Day