If you look closely at the word “Earth”, you will discover that its middle three letters spell “art”. This little bit of serendipity has …
There are museums, and then there is the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. This was the first of its kind, in 1683. The first purpose-built place …
New Supreme Court, old building
Suppose you were French president Nicholas Sarkozy, and you had invented an important new top tier in your legal system. You need a building to …
I sat high in the North Stand for one of Arsenal’s last football matches – a patrician dismissal of Everton – at its old Highbury …
Snohetta's Oslo opera house
At first, I think the taxi driver has taken a wrong turning. I’m in Oslo, and he’s meant to be going to the studio of …
>Up there on the rock of the Acropolis, that’s the Parthenon. Down here on the lower slopes, that’s the £110m New Acropolis Museum. Inside the …
Number One, Poultry, is an office and retail corner block at the heart of the City of London by James Stirling, first designed in 1985, …
They nicknamed it “Sputnik”, did the people charged with the task of designing and building the original Mini car. It was the end of …
Prince Charles and Chelsea Barracks
In case you missed it, the twattish heir to the British throne, Prince Charles, has been caught out trying to subvert the planning process again …
Conder's new Dungeness house
Dungeness is a large, roughly triangular shingle peninsula that extrudes from the south-eastern coast of Britain into the English Channel. It is home to a …
The English middle classes have always loved the idea of throwing high culture at the masses. From the mid 19th century onwards, all kinds of …
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