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Skyscraper deluxe: Manchester’s towers
Towers under construction near the Mancunian Way, Hulme Manchester, like many other cities today, has a fetish for tall buildings. Perhaps this is a result of the topography of the city centre,...
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Gathered time: Lincolnshire’s redundant churches
St Boltoph’s, Skidbrooke With 350 UK buildings in their care, the Churches Conservation Trust is a national charity that saves historic churches at risk. All of these churches are handed over to the...
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Unmoored Cities
Tomás Saraceno, Observatory, Air-port City (2008). Psycho Buildings exhibition, Hayward Gallery, London, June 2008. Friday 25 May 2018, 10am-6pm, Bartlett School of Architecture, 22 Gordon St, London,...
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Magic portals into dreaming: Manchester’s public libraries
Stockport central library, funded by Andrew Carnegie, built from 1913-14 and designed by Bolton-based architects Bradshaw, Gass & Hope Of the numerous public libraries in Greater Manchester, no...
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Anarchitecture
Lebbeus Woods, Quake City, 1995 This month, I’ve started a new 2-year research project exploring self-built structures of all kinds. Like the architect and theorist Lebbeus Woods, I’m calling this...
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Landmatters: permaculture in practice
During the 1990s in Britain, a new kind of grassroots environmental awareness developed, leading to the promotion of Low Impact Development in the countryside. Manifest most vividly in the makeshift...
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Scaffolding: parasitic architecture
As buildings rise, so does a temporary form of architecture – scaffolding. As old as the Egyptian pyramids, scaffolding is a parasitic form of architecture, enveloping a building as it rises or is...
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Lammas: hobbit homes for all
Community hub building at Lammas, built in 2009 Lammas is a low impact, off-grid eco-village at Tir-y-Gafel in Pembrokeshire in southwest Wales. Consisting of 15 smallholdings on 76 acres of land, the...
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The Open City: building as poetry
Hanging Lodge, The Open City, 2006 The Open City of Amereida occupies 670 acres of dune fields, wetlands and pine forests along the Pacific coast immediately south of Ritoque, a small seaside town in...
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Street Farm: architecture and eco-anarchism
Seeding high-rises and ploughing the city’s streets: a collage from Street Farmer 2 (1972) The early 1970s witnessed the first widespread stirrings of unease about the ecological consequences of...
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