All articles by Jonathan Glancey – Page 7
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FeaturesLubetkin’s legacy is worth more
Two of Lubetkin’s London buildings are back in the news — all for the wrong reasons, of course
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FeaturesTrump tees off into the abyss
With Glasgow’s Lighthouse under threat, perhaps Donald Trump should now turn his attention to the rest of our recession-struck isle?
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FeaturesYou know when you’ve been quangoed
What exactly does the Homes & Communities Agency’s brief to produce ‘good design’ mean? And can it deliver anything to rival Pugin, Gaudí or any other of the off-the-map greats?
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FeaturesMrs Beckett: style icon or menace?
Margaret Beckett is back in government, this time as housing minister, but will her love of caravaning lead to more flexible attitudes on how to address the UK’s housing needs?
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OpinionTowers as old as building itself
Towers have been around for thousands of years. Which means we can certainly critique the current batch
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FeaturesAn end to dark satanic homes
We have got to start building homes worthy of our architectural history and heritage
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FeaturesWill recession bring revolution?
The changing economic climate could lead to greater political engagement among British architects
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FeaturesConcerning Callcutt’s bare cheek
John Callcutt’s unwarranted attack on the profession at Venice highlights how quiescent architects have become
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FeaturesLord of the architectural laugh
In the wake of a Venice biennale that provoked laughs — and not in good way — comes a London show celebrating Osbert Lancaster, our most gifted architectural humourist
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FeaturesOne man in an imaginary boat
The Venice Architecture Biennale beckons, and engenders dreams of a London where cost is not the only consideration for architecture
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FeaturesA brief for the unthinkable
Rogers made a creditable go of the brief for Terminal 5 but moving the capital’s main airport to the Kent coast would aid passengers, while the west London site could be reborn as an exemplar of good architecture
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FeaturesGetting design back on track
A train journey to Newcastle proved revealing about the art of seeing — and not seeing
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FeaturesOur turn to give back to Soane
Sir John Soane’s Museum, that invaluable cabinet of curiosities, is appealing for funds for its Open Up the Soane project.
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FeaturesRailing against the cult of retail
Allies & Morrison and Foreign Office Architects are set to redesign Euston and Birmingham New Street rail stations — but the developer’s need for a quick return on investment could trump good architecture
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FeaturesNon-transferable art appreciation
How can Margaret Hodge be so sensitive about music and so crass about architecture, wonders Jonathan Glancey
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Eco-town a symptom, not a strategy
As the political pendulum swings against giant government building initiatives, architects have a chance to be part of the revival of local democracy
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FeaturesCaught in the act on law and order
As Banged Up With Blunkett reaches our TVs, Jonathan Glancey examines some architectural aspects of the prisons debate
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FeaturesThe garish lipstick on the pig
An exhibition of Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershoi’s work at the RA shows how to achieve rewarding domestic architecture without resort to lime green
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FeaturesThe challenge of accessibility
Buzzwords like ‘accessibility’ and ‘sustainability’ mask a tendency to talk down to a public craving for architecture of substance