All articles by Jonathan Glancey – Page 8
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FeaturesLet’s export our way out of recession
Recessions are caused largely by a loss of confidence in the economy. The capitalist system is both crude and delicate, a spoilt brat of a way of determining our economic wellbeing.
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FeaturesDogs have their day at the LFA
Is modern architecture’s inability to accommodate man’s best friend a measure of its joylessness?
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FeaturesArchitecture deformed by cash
How New Labour presided over the expansion of a privately financed building sector to the detriment of public architecture
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FeaturesMixed use needs real meaning
Jonathan Glancy laments the lost ambition for real, human-scale mixed-use buildings in favour of massive, sleek warehouses of people and consumables
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FeaturesBerlin phoenix must rise again
The links between Berlin, Berlioz and other great architectural fires explored
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FeaturesHow about a truly juicy memoir?
Jonathan Glancey laments the lack of revealing architectural autobiographies
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FeaturesSunshine beats any masterplan
St James’s Park in central London is an object lesson in how to make a pitch-perfect public space
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FeaturesFanfare for the common man
Using architecture to make an impact on London is nothing new: the wise mayor could learn a lot from the local, social policies of the past
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FeaturesPublic spirit can beat the slump
We need strong public foundations to withstand economic fluctuations, says Jonathan Glancey
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FeaturesThe eco-town has not landed
Politicians pay lip service to the notion of eco-towns while slashing the very public services that would make them function
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FeaturesWhy real life isn’t all for the best
It’s important to have principles, but we live in an imperfect world and no one wants to turn into Voltaire’s Dr Pangloss
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FeaturesAfter the good ship Architecture
The world’s great port cities are architectural wonders — but the new wave of buildings in Liverpool is execrable
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FeaturesLeft or right, the only way is up
Every politican wants his city to be “world class” these days — but why does that always seem to mean skyscrapers?
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Pawley’s prescience on the city
Jonathan Glancey recalls his disagreements with former BD editor Martin Pawley, who died this week, about the future of the city
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FeaturesAre there prizes for 244th place?
News that the RIBA has made number 244 in the Superbrands list sends Jonathan Glancey into paroxysms of despair
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FeaturesThis frog could become a prince
Renovated by a sympathetic architect, Robin Hood Gardens could be a very desirable residence, says Jonathan Glancey
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FeaturesDebate remains at dustbin level
Calling Patel Taylor’s Ivor Crewe lecture hall a dustbin was simple bad manners, says Jonathan Glancey
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FeaturesStatues leave me stoney faced
The statutes at the refurbished St Pancras Station have started a much needed debate about their role in public life
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FeaturesWill China save us from schlock?
A curious to-and-froing exists between the current architectural styles of East and West. Jonathan Glancey wonders how we can get a little bit of ‘qi’ up the Lee River Valley before 2012