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How Sadiq Khan is turning away from Johnsonian vanity projects

In November 2018, when the architectural practice Foster + Partners first revealed images of The Tulip, I could barely muster a flicker of the outrage it…

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How Sadiq Khan is turning away from Johnsonian vanity projects

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Why Notre Dame isn’t lost

In reactions to the burning of Notre-Dame de Paris, one can see a sadness that is distinct from the…

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Boris Johnson’s plan to sell public land for a new Crystal Palace will be a terrible boondoggle

The idea of building a new Crystal Palace in south London appeals to the Victorian Toryism in Boris Johnson,…

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