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Review: “The Power if Nuclear” by Marco Visscher

Review: “The Power if Nuclear” by Marco Visscher

Dec 12Posted by in architecture-and-urbanism, Articles, culture-and-society, development-and-environment, front_page, science-and-technology, top_story

In this important book, Marco Visscher shows how knee-jerk reactions from national governments have blighted the progress of the nuclear industry since its foundation.

Unfair COP

Unfair COP

Nov 30Posted by in architecture-and-urbanism, Articles, communities, culture-and-society, development-and-environment, front_page, gallery, top_story, urban-living

The Conference of the Parties (COP) has been criss-crossing the world on a never-ending jamboree of virtue-signalling for the last three decades

Stay Home, Blame Cars, Save Lives

Stay Home, Blame Cars, Save Lives

Oct 30Posted by in Articles, culture-and-society, development-and-environment, front_page, science-and-technology, top_story, urban-living

There is an increasing tendency to examine forensically the minutiae of a case in order to find a way to apportion liability. We find it difficult to accept the reality of accidents.

Review: I Wish You Well, Criterion Theatre

Review: I Wish You Well, Criterion Theatre

Oct 4Posted by in Articles, culture-and-society, front_page, miscellaneous, top_story

This is a must-see. At only 60-minutes it packs in more laughs, more excitement, more invention and memorable tunes than in most other West End favourites

A Disparaging Remark

A Disparaging Remark

Jun 27Posted by in Articles, education, front_page, top_story

If more architecture students understood what a legal minefield they were entering they might decide to go off and do something else instead.

You’re So Vaughan…

You’re So Vaughan…

Jun 9Posted by in Articles, front_page, top_story

… you probably think this article’s about you

Five Critical Essays

Five Critical Essays

May 12Posted by in architecture-and-urbanism, Articles, culture-and-society, education, front_page, top_story

Offering hospitality to a dissenting view as evidence that the closure of our democratic traditions is not yet complete.

Standing at the Sky’s Edge

Standing at the Sky’s Edge

May 5Posted by in architecture-and-urbanism, Articles, culture-and-society, front_page, top_story, urban-living

Richard Hawley: “All you have to do is tell the story because what has happened to our country is so dramatic.”

China’s urban dilemmas

China’s urban dilemmas

Apr 30Posted by in architecture-and-urbanism, Articles, communities, culture-and-society, development-and-environment, front_page, top_story, urban-living

For 40 years, China has been urbanizing in order to accommodate its growing population often with scant regard to the finer points of urban design.

Housing: Where Will We All Live?

Housing: Where Will We All Live?

Apr 28Posted by in architecture-and-urbanism, Articles, communities, development-and-environment, front_page, top_story, urban-living

While the construction industry tries to deal with its economic problems by redundancies and bankruptcies; the big new stupid idea in architecture schools is “degrowth.”

German Right and Left United in Attacking Israel

German Right and Left United in Attacking Israel

Feb 19Posted by in Articles, culture-and-society, front_page, miscellaneous, top_story

It’s not the far-right, but the anti-Israel left that has been agitating against Israel in universities and other institutions.

What’s in a name?

What’s in a name?

Feb 14Posted by in Articles, culture-and-society, education, front_page, miscellaneous, top_story

What designers do, and how they describe themselves, is important. By the 1990s, the graphic designer and the craft of design was being written out of the script.

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