All articles by Owen Hatherley – Page 5
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Opinion‘Sustainability’ is a dangerous mirage
Even in Dubai, the language of greenwash is used to distract us from the real design issues
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Building StudyGreenwich: Monument to Blair’s Britain
It’s 10 years since the Greenwich peninsula was at the centre of millennium celebrations, but its redevelopment has proved to be a microcosm of New Labour’s wasted opportunities
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ReviewCities of the Lens
A recent Architecture Foundation debate explores how the camera can help construct an ‘alternative urbanism’
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OpinionWhere is the Ice Cube of architecture?
Today the idea of an angry architecture is all but inconceivable
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Building StudyCardiff: Baudrillard at the Eisteddfod
With two districts competing for Cardiff’s administrative crown, the result is a city confused by its architectural patchwork
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ReviewRetrospective on the Tyne
Lit & Phil’s exhibition is a fascinating examination of T Dan Smith’s part in creating Newcastle
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OpinionSlow train to our lumpen fantasy past
Despite renewed interest in their radical edge, our suburbs stand for the failure of idealism
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Building StudyWest Riding: Northern exposure
The stolid Victorian charms of Leeds and Bradford remain intact despite some horrendous redevelopment
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ReviewVriesendorp leads these high-rise distractions
This east London installation plays with ideas of technology but ultimately leaves one wanting more
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OpinionHelpless towers are being buried
What lies behind this Europe-wide mania for recladding post-war buildings?
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ReviewWhy the Repromotion exhibition at Brussels’ Bozar fits the space
Jan de Cock’s vast flatpack installation is holding a minimalist conversation with its own gallery
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Building StudyCambridge blues
Beyond its historic centre, Cambridge’s modern architectural landscape speaks of dislocation and secrecy
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Building StudyGlasgow: Centuries of change
With its sixties blocks being reclad or demolished, Glasgow has never regained the architectural confidence it showed in the early 20th century
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OpinionModernism sells better with frocks
Coco Before Chanel reminds us why we rarely see architecture on the big screen
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OpinionModernism shouldn’t take rap for fire
It’s not the tower blocks that are to blame but, rather, our dereliction of duty towards their welfare
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Building StudyFog on the Tyne
Successive waves of regeneration have landed Newcastle and Gateshead with a riot of architectural statements — yet an urban spirit born in the 19th century lives on
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OpinionMemorials still dying an awful death
Remembering the dead has always led to crimes against design
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Building StudyManchester: Heaven knows it’s miserable now
Manchester is hailed as a flagship for successful regeneration but along the way it has lost all appetite for civic architecture
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Building StudySheffield: City of skeletons
Sheffield remains a unique city set in a spectacular landscape, but the gutted form of Park Hill exemplifies the efforts being spent to make it look like everywhere else
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OpinionRestoration this country truly needs
We shout about preserving our buildings, but are strangely quiet on the issue of council housing