All articles by Owen Hatherley – Page 3
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OpinionSuccess is all in the execution...
The shoddy application of good planning ideas has sold our towns and cities short
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ReviewThe Art-Architecture Complex
The mutual influence of art and architecture has had little benefit to either
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Building StudyMediocrity has been wealth’s bequest to Aberdeen
Since Aberdeen became the UK’s oil capital, its city centre has not seen a single worthwhile building
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OpinionBuilding an escape from the ghetto
The results of the very rich living next to the very poor can be seen in Hackney and Clapham
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Building StudyEdinburgh: A planning tradition that is the opposing force to grands projets
A process of ’conservative surgery’ has helped create an impressive city - making its low points all the less forgivable
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Building StudyThe Valleys: some of the saddest sights in Britain
The south Wales Valleys bear the architectural scars of their brutal history
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OpinionBeware starchitects bearing gifts
Much-vaunted showpiece schemes can often become a front for sneaking bad buildings in under the radar
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Building StudyUnison headquarters, London, by Squire & Partners
Unison’s new headquarters is an enclave of sobriety that draws on the imagery of corporate rebranding to reflect the changing language of the union movement
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Building StudyPlymouth: the architecture is palpably the work of men in their dotage
The modernised classicism of the rebuilt city centre was already tired by the 1940s, but Plymouth has other surprises
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Building StudyCroydon: one of London’s more surreal urban experiences
Grand ambitions and patchy execution are a recipe for urban misery in the London Borough of Croydon, the Mini-Manhattan of the South-east
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Opinion
Architects must lose the silo mentality
The profession’s indifference to the industrial icons of Buffalo shows its true detachment
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Building StudyBrighton: the most seductive city of the new economy
Attractiveness and hypocrisy combine to create Brighton & Hove’s unique urban experience
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OpinionYes, minister, we need more Bykers
Grant Shapps’ enthusiasm is surprising, as the estate embodies the antithesis of his policies
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Review
Food on the Move by David Lawrence
This study of motorway services takes readers on a memorable journey
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Building StudyBristol feels as though it’s been asleep since 1910
Two centuries on from its heyday, Bristol presents an apathetic, scarred, yet striking face to the world
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ReviewBerlin — Matter of Memory by FredrikTorisson
An exploration of Berlin divides the city into monuments and relics
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OpinionRemember the past, but don’t repeat it
The government threat to stop funding Unesco shows a tortured relationship with conservation
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ReviewRodchenko and his Circle
A new London show puts his architectural photography in sharper focus
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Building StudyThe West Midlands: a mash-up of speculative tat and fearless originals
Carefully planned post-war townscapes fight with moneymaking imperatives in the UK’s largest unplanned agglomeration.
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OpinionClosing the libraries is just the start
Localism seems to require a near impossible suspension of disbelief