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Soaring Inspiration
I have always been fascinated by aviation. Although architectural design has been my chosen profession, which I have found fascinating, like many others not fortunate enough to make their career as a pilot, I have spent huge chunks of my … Continue reading
Posted in all together now..., aviation, contemporary architecture
Tagged architecture, design, gliding, inspiration, literature, soaring
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A Week in the Shard
The Shard, London ©Robert Kronenburg I recently found out that I am one of six winners of an RIBA competition in which entrants were asked to reflect on the impact of the pandemic on their lives, practice and the general world … Continue reading
Unlocking Live Music
Back in July 2020 the UK’s first official post-pandemic indoor live music performance took place in London when Beverley Knight performed live at the London Palladium in a pilot that would ostensibly show how music and theatrical events might be … Continue reading
Posted in all together now..., music, portable
Tagged grass-roots music, live music, lock-down, outdoor gigs
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This Must Be The Place: CBGB and OMFUG
My book This Must Be The Place: An Architectural History of Popular Music Performance Venues (Bloomsbury, New York) is published today 7th March 2019. It tells the story of the places and spaces where popular music has been performed and … Continue reading
Thinking, Doing and Making at HELLO WOOD
This summer I spent eight hot days in rolling farmland a few hours from Lake Balaton in rural Hungary. Up a farm track, amidst a matrix of huge fields was a triangle of land which became, over just a few … Continue reading
Posted in all together now..., contemporary architecture, flexible
Tagged architecture, building, education, self-build, sustainability
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Tiny House
One cold March a few years ago I was travelling through New England on a short holiday after a week’s work in New York. I didn’t have any rooms booked or arrangements made and this had led me on a round-about … Continue reading
Political Architecture: The ‘big’ and the ‘flexible’
A few years ago I was in Bucharest helping judge a competition to design a large-scale temporary installation in one of the city’s squares. The organisers set the judging panel up in the Palace of the Parliament constructed in … Continue reading
Ephemeral Cities
In the late 1970s, when I was a student of architecture, I took part in a school trip to Paris. The staff had arranged visits to what they considered important buildings: Villa Savoye (we were impressed), the new Ricardo Bofill’s … Continue reading
Posted in all together now..., portable, traditional architecture
Tagged architecture, cities, fairgrounds, festivals, Paris, temporary stages
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What Makes a Music City?
‘Music City’ is a term that seems to be coming more and more common. Once it might have been used to loosely describe a place that has a good vibe for popular music activity – fun venues, a lively local … Continue reading
Posted in all together now..., music
Tagged architecture, Melbourne, music performance, popular music, temporary stages, venues
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MEA (Minimal Effort Architecture)
The phrase Renaissance woman/man is sometimes overplayed but I am fortunate to know someone who genuinely deserves that accolade. Jim is an architect, a gifted water colourist, a teacher and a superb chef. He is also by far the best … Continue reading
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