

This article was first published in September 2017. I’m regularly appalled at the banality of post-match – or at least post-achievement – interviews of sports people still dripping from their efforts. As if it isn’t enough to hijack them before...
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We need to talk about storage
Warehousing is a rapidly growing requirement, and we must find more space to accommodate it within the urban fabric. Much has been written about how the retail and office sectors are being transformed by the sudden acceleration in e-commerce and remote working, but a...
We need to talk about storage

Blueprint for the modern embassy
This article was originally published on 30 April 2018. The recent completion of the hugely expensive new US Embassy in London and the continued controversy around the US decision to relocate its embassy to Jerusalem brings back memories of our own British Embassy...
Blueprint for the modern embassy

Architecture without architects
ARTICLE ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 2017. This title has been borrowed from Bernard Rudofsky, a Moravian-born American writer, architect, and social historian who published an influential book of the same name in 1964. It has the subtitle ‘A short...
Architecture without architects

The responsibilities of architects in relation to their clients
Much has been written in the Spanish press recently about the Valle de Los Caidos (the Valley of the Fallen), the monument to those who died in the Spanish Civil War (1936-9) which is a one hour drive north of Madrid near the Escatorial Palace, Philip II’s summer...
The responsibilities of architects in relation to their clients