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Ambassador, you are spoiling our view of the Thames with this boring glass cube.
Is Kieran Timberlake’s winning design for the new American embassy in London really as bad as Lord Richard Rogers thinks?  Even though the public only has access to a few renderings of each proposal (and as a judge in the competition, Rogers [...]

Olympics may fail to regenerate east London, report warns
As construction continues at the east London site for the 2016 Olympics, evidence continues to accumulate that, per tradition, London’s Olympic legacy may include a combination of unfulfilled promises, under-funded budgets, and forlorn facilities.
A committee of the Greater London Authority just released a entirely unsurprising report in which [...]

Although Lord Richard Rogers is an estimable architect who thoroughly deserves most of the accolades given to him and his firm, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, the 2009 Stirling Prize just awarded him seems more a product of his reputation and the high-profile nature of the commission for which he won than the superiority of the [...]

Emo Goldfinger’s Trellick Tower shows that even “Grade II” buildings can be ugly and unfortunate-looking if they really, really, shoot for it; as you can see, Goldfinger nailed it, which is kind of appropriate since the Goldfinger of James Bond fame was named after Emo.
Image courtesy of seewah

Recently, I wrote a post about SANAA’s latest creation, an elegant slab of metal and plywood with a porcupine underbelly that rests beside London’s Serpentine Gallery; you may now apply my praise for that pavilion to the inventive bundle of energy you see above.
Driftwood, as it is called, was crafted by Unit 2 (based on [...]

Like an amoeba with a social agenda or blob with an ax to grind, a taut, fluid canopy of rigid aluminum is temporarily - and refreshingly - tethered to the lawn beside London’s Serpentine Gallery, proving once again that public pavilions are excellent venues for either falling on your face or validating praise already won.  This [...]

Perhaps I should clarify that the “you” in the post title actually refers to “famous architects employing other architects they can boss around…”
Daily Telegraph:  St. Paul’s Cathedral sketches show how Sir Christopher Wren changed architecture
If you have any interest at all in architectural history, I highly recommend visiting the online portion of an exhibition called [...]

…according to Lord Richard Rogers, just a misled dilettante bored with unemployment.
Rogers’ zinger was provoked by Prince Charles’ ”back door” advocacy against Rogers’ design of a major Chelsea development funded by Qatar Diar.  The prince was so successful in fact that Qatar Diar simply canceled construction - and apparently this is not the first time he has succeeded in throwing [...]