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Le Roi des Belges: the boat that’s a house on top of a London concert hall.
Oh, you think. This is a dream, right? You’ve gone up in a lift and there, at the top, at the end of a snaking gangplank, a boat is waiting. It’s called ‘Le Roi des Belges’. Why? And it’s perched on...
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Vaulting Ambition: the £547 million King’s Cross station concourse.
What do they call those foam-plastic latticework socks they slip over your bottles of booze at airport duty-frees? Do they even have a name? Well, the new Western concourse at London’s King’s Cross...
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Renzo Piano’s Shard in London. Not bad, but NOT a ‘vertical city’.
The Shard. It’s a very tall building in London. Also outside London, on a clear day, given the distance from which you can see it. And when I say it’s in London, I mean RIGHT in it: London Bridge,...
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Tate Modern’s Underworld: The Tanks beneath the lawn
Found objects have long had their place in art, most notably since the provocations of Dadaists such as Duchamp with his ‘readymades’. It’s not the object, it’s the manipulation of context and...
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The Brutal Truth: when modernism gets historic
It is 25 years since postwar architecture first started to be recognised as “officially quite good, here and there”. 1987 was the year the system for designating and protecting valuable old buildings...
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