Category: Architecture

Gender Fluidity

I am not gender fluid. I didn’t even play women in school plays. In Lyon I’m surrounded by gender fluidity.

A Hundred Years Young

I went to a very enjoyable lunch party at the Turf Club last week. My host encouragingly said that it would not be a short one and this proved correct. After some sluicing and slurping in an outer room at lunch I sat between two strangers.

The Beaufort Portcullis

As the Palace of Westminster is likely to close for a substantial refurb it is a good moment at look back at its origins and Caroline Shenton has done just that in The Day Parliament Burned Down and Mr Barry’s War.

Design Deficit

Last time Quinlan Terry cropped up here (Palladio in the Park) I called him Terry Quinlan until a better informed reader in Dublin put me right. (Thank you, Margaret.) As far as I can remember he got quite a good write-up from me for his Palladian villas in Regent’s Park. Today he is going to… Continue reading Design Deficit

Dou at Dulwich

  The Dulwich Picture Gallery doesn’t get the visitors it deserves because it’s not on the tube. It is a ten minute hop on the overground from Victoria to Dulwich West and then a ten minute walk through the leafy purlieus of Dulwich.

Landmarks

John Smith and I share a birthday, albeit his was in 1923. Rather a common name, his I mean? Certainly, but he was an uncommon man.

Swarkestone Pavilion

Here’s another Round on the Links, set by me not James Walton. What is the connection between two Rolling Stones albums, a building in Las Vegas and a 17th Century bowling green? Not hard, the answer is today’s title.