Tag: Jonathan Glancey
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On Fish, bridges, Boris, Jonathan, and pack-donkeys
# RANTINGMaximus may have been all fish-out-of-water proposing an inhabited viaduct over Wellington’s the Basin Reserve over at Eye of the Fish, but it seems that somebody is reading that blog over in our good old Mother Country… Boris Johnson, Lord Mayor of London no less…
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Video of the Week IX: Le Corbusier’s Mediterranean cabanon comes to London
The blurb says: Le Corbusier’s summer cabin – a tiny bolthole built in the south of France for his wife – has been reconstructed at the Royal Institute of British Architects in London. Jonathan Glancey steps inside to discover what it tells us about the architect’s other monumental buildings It’s kind of mind-blowing that it is in this space…
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Video of the Week I: Architecture stripped bare
(Warning – this clip features artistic and architectural nudity…) You know you’re in trouble when the opening and closing lines of a short architecture-related video are thus: “What happens if you ask architects to let rip… …Really, architects are at their best when they’re fully dressed [muffled snigger], very serious, and just a little bit…
