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Lion Green Road

I went off to sunny Coulsdon to see the new housing development on Lion Green Road which won this year’s Stirling Prize as the best piece of new architecture in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, although this year, as in other years, no project was shortlisted north of Cambridge. I will be writing about…

Architecture, Criticism and History (2)

The cover of my new book, Architecture, Criticism and History, has now been approved. I like and admire it. It’s got a playful and experimental feel, which I hope is reflected in the essays. The typeface is called Grandmaster and was devised in 2018 by a French typographic designer, Lucas Descroix, based on a mixture…