A Chinese Utopia?
Review by Pierre Shaw [ Oct 2016] Shenzhen is the city of miraculous conception, born from nothing and yet emerging now as one of the planet’s most ferociously rapid urban developing city. From humble border town beginnings just 35 years ago, Shenzhen has thrown itself onto the world stage projecting its population from 300,000 to 12 – 15 million (no-one seems to know the exact figures). It is yet another step in China’s march...
Church on the Beach
This is church as beach hut: a Crusoe-esque retreat for Beijing’s bourgeoisie to sample safely the long-forbidden religious experience.
Wang Shu. Who?
Wang used his reclusive decade to reinvent himself as ‘a scholar, a craftsman, and an architect, in that order’. He emerged as a self-professed member of the literati.
Ai Weiwei at the Royal Academy
In October of 2010, Ai Weiwei filled the turbine hall at the Tate Modern with 100 million handmade porcelain sunflower seeds.
Playing Rough
The installations all seem to be a bit of fun, but there does seem to be a sinister undertone.
A Tale of Two Cities
Are soaring property prices that push young Londoners out of their city, simply a price for London’s global success?
‘What is public space’ Future Cities Salon, Porto
Early 20thC Modernism sought to provide public open space within cities as a release from the confines of overcrowded, unsanitary slums.
White City Black City
This beautifully translated publication is an excellent insight to the history of Tel Aviv and Jaffa, told through their architecture.
In defence of a Defence of Stars and Icons
We need a more journalistic nuance as well as hard-hitting intelligent critique.
The Evolution of a Modern Man
Matt Bloomfield | 17 March 2015 Review of Mackintosh Architecture, The Architecture Gallery, RIBA Conveniently coinciding with Prince Charles’ latest foray into Architecture, the RIBA’s Mackintosh Architecture exhibition expertly illustrates the third way between historic pastiche and bland commercialisation. The exhibition brings together Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s work from his early days as an apprentice at...
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