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Dec 19, 2024 | 
thecritic.co.uk | Charles Smith
Surviving buildings lend texture to the development, a sense of it having a history This article is taken from the December-January 2025 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we’re offering five issues for just £10.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
thecritic.co.uk | Charles Smith
A manichaean choice between the organic adaptation of old buildings and the beauty of the new This article is taken from the November 2024 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we’re offering five issues for just £10.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
thecritic.co.uk | Charles Smith
The institute used to feel intellectually introverted This article is taken from the November 2024 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we’re offering five issues for just £10. In the days when I was a postgraduate, most art historians went to study at the Courtauld Institute.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
lewrockwell.com | Charles Smith
The illusion created by the initial success of central planning is that it can continue indefinitely, when the reality is it’s unavoidably self-liquidating as the distortions unravel the entire economy. China offers a real-time case study of the upsides and downsides of central planning, broadly defined as the central state establishing the goals, financing, incentives and regulatory structure for various sectors of the nation’s economy.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
thecritic.co.uk | Charles Smith
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism This article is taken from the October 2024 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we’re offering five issues for just £10. One evening in the high summer, I found myself bicycling through Canary Wharf. Although in the 1980s, we lived in view of its rising towers, I seldom visit. I think of it as a business district, and I have never been to any of its offices.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
thecritic.co.uk | Charles Smith
The most conspicuous monuments of the last decade are the vast online shopping warehouses This article is taken from the August-September 2024 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we’re offering five issues for just £10. I have not been a fan of what the Conservative government did over the last 14 years to the country’s architecture.
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Jun 16, 2024 | 
thecritic.co.uk | Charles Smith
This article is taken from the July 2024 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we’re offering five issues for just £10. My columns are normally about architecture in England.
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Jun 14, 2024 | 
thecritic.co.uk | Charles Smith
G.E. Street built or restored 113 churches for the Oxford diocese alone This article is taken from the June 2024 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we’re offering five issues for just £10. The bicentenary of G.E. Street’s birth is on 20 June 2024, although you can be forgiven for not having noticed.
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May 10, 2024 | 
thecritic.co.uk | Charles Smith
Maverick John Harris embarked on the closest Britain has ever got to an architecture museum This article is taken from the May 2024 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we’re offering five issues for just £10. In 1956, the late John Harris, a maverick and self-educated young architectural historian, got a job at the Royal Institute of British Architecture (RIBA) as a junior curator of its architectural drawings.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
thecritic.co.uk | Charles Smith
This article is taken from the April 2024 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we’re offering five issues for just £10. In 1975, Gavin Stamp travelled out to India with Colin Amery, then assistant editor of the Architectural Review, to visit Edwin Lutyens’ buildings for New Delhi, which were beginning to be seen in a more sympathetic light after falling disastrously out of architectural fashion following Lutyens’ death in 1944.
