How sci-fi cinema recast brutalism's concrete identity, binding utopian dreams to dystopian futures through films like Blade Runner.
By Tessa Nolan The candy-pink model of the Grand Budapest Hotel – spanning over three metres in width and used to capture the building’s façade…
By Tessa Nolan Sir David Chipperfield does not design buildings that shout. His architecture is measured, quiet, and deliberate – a quality the Pritzker jury…
By Sara Bright When Battersea Power Station reopened on 14 October 2022, it ended nearly four decades of dereliction, failed schemes, and engineering dread. The…
By Sara Bright On 3 March 1982, Queen Elizabeth II opened the Barbican Centre and called it “one of the wonders of the modern world.”…
By Tessa Nolan On 11 June 2026, the Royal Institute of British Architects announced that Rockbund Shanghai – a meticulous, nearly two-decade restoration of eleven…
By Tessa Nolan Two years ago, a forecast for British design in 2024 predicted a future built on eco-friendly materials, smart city technologies, and personalisation.…
By Sara Bright When Queen Elizabeth II officially opened the Barbican Centre on 3 March 1982, the building was already thirteen years ahead of its…
By Sara Bright Our world is built on a lie. A quiet, pervasive, and often dangerous lie. The lie is that the default human is…
By Sara Bright Within the seemingly capricious tides of fashion, where trends often flicker with the brevity of a mayfly, a deeper sentience resides. It…