The Sleepwalk of the West

A vast office and retail building is rising next to St Paul’s Cathedral, set to “transform the City into a seven-day shopping and leisure destination with a difference“. A friend in the trade told me the story: The site was up for redevelopment (why? it looked grand as it was). Certain constraints apply around the Cathedral to [...]

Modernism, otherwise known as Nihilism. Ok, yes, it’s highly innovative, etcetera. But I recently stayed a few doors away from this cube-home, and it just got uglier each time I saw it. That was my “response” to it, so presumably it is “valid”.