Nicholas Boys-Smith: Housebuilding needs a direct planning revolution
The second piece in our mini-series on housing argues that the planning system needs a far greater focus on buildings that people like.
Posts Tagged: architecture
Mark Winterburn: We must build better, as well as more, homes
We sometimes forget the downside of Macmillan’s legacy – rushed housing that later cost a fortune to put right.
Hayes’ speech on beauty in transport: full text
“Some who did the damage to our country were crass and careless. But some wrought monstrous havoc knowingly, wilfully. All of them Philistines. Well now the Philistines have met their David.”
How modernist architects justify unpopular buildings
Abstraction has its place – in modern art that no one is forced to look at or an experimental novel that no one has to read.