All articles by Jonathan Glancey – Page 3
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OpinionWe need to redesign planners
Demanding a high standard of professionalism would genuinely raise our quality of life.
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OpinionLet’s embrace western folly
Dreams and whimsies may be the perfect counterbalance to the developing world’s construction boom
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OpinionLet’s build more Brynmawrs
Showcase factories would act as beacons of hope in the economic downturn.
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OpinionDigi-design is virtually reality
Judging by advances in the car industry, virtual interior design could be closer than we think.
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OpinionWe need to talk about housing
Wherever there are no jobs and a barren stretch of sodden land to be flogged off cheaply, horrid homes sprout like random weeds.
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OpinionHow the other half builds
The gap between low-cost housing and luxury developments grows ever wider.
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OpinionTV’s game-show architecture
Would there be TV freak shows if buildings worked with the landscape and were built at a slower pace?
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OpinionSee Venice Little-Britain style
Shades of Vicky Pollard dominate the Venice Architecture Biennale
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OpinionA home under St Paul’s dome?
The most unlikely conversions could make magnificent places to live.
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OpinionOur heritage is in your hands
The Brooking Collection of Architectural Detail needs your help to survive
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OpinionLet’s keep politicians out of it
Whoever wins the election, we don’t want them meddling with architecture
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OpinionTime is ripe to revive the ‘Rippon’ effect
By ensuring small-scale urban buildings are protected, we have saved some places, but have we gone far enough?
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Opinion‘World class’ just means banal
An invitation arrives from the Swedish Association of Architects to speak to Stockholm politicians and planners. Icelandic volcanoes willing, I’ll go because the theme is urgent: the “world class city”
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OpinionCabe gives me engage rage
Le Corbusier must be turning in his grave at the modern obsession with ‘engaging the public’
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OpinionThe land that Pevsner forgot
No one is charting the new buildings that are springing up to swamp our cities
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OpinionEarning their licence to build
Never mind architects learning how developers work, developers should have to learn how architects work before they are allowed to build
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OpinionThe fusty critics have a point
Those die-hard critics of modern architecture sometimes have a point, says Jonathan Glancey, after seeing the characterless commercial development of Bury St Edmunds
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OpinionOur future’s been outsourced
As Tesco starts to recruit from India, British architects should be worried
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OpinionThe profession has divided us
There are still places where architecture is a communal experience
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