Mackintosh’s Glasgow School of Art: Out of the Ashes?
This requires an exceptional architectural team, emphasising talent and creativity, in the most important commission in Scotland and probably the UK.
The cultural revolution on Western campuses
One student relates how, in a Beijing middle school, students beat one teacher to death. ‘It was immensely satisfying’, he writes.
THE RIBA PRESIDENT 2026 IS….
I will be organising an online get-together, hosting some debates later in the year, and also arranging a face-to-face gathering over drinks
Three Questions
Here are my answers to three questions from the Future Architecture Front, in advance of the RIBA Presidential campaign results.
List, demolish & retrofit… the RIBA Presidential campaign
Austin Williams, candidate to be President of the RIBA 2026 answers questions about his top priorities and how he would address them
Welsh Labour: The End of an Error
Welsh Labour, enabled by Plaid Cymru, has delivered the lowest educational outcomes… A fifth of primary school leavers are functionally illiterate.
On the Regulation of the function of Architects
… a bunch of “creatives” who think that the world owes them a living.
Mr Starmer goes to Beijing
The UK should be more confident. China’s own creativity is hampered by a state that doesn’t appreciate autonomy and independence of its citizens.
Review: What’s Wrong With Benny Hill?
Anthony Bugess, the author of The Clockwork Orange described him as “a comic genius steeped in the British music hall tradition”
High noon for high drama
When you have to concentrate rather than allowing yourself to be carried away by the magic of theatre, then something isn’t working.
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