In a bonus episode of the AJ’s podcast series, we talk to Owen Hatherley about the retrofitting of Modernist buildings and to the AJ’s Will Hurst about our RetroFirst campaign
Owen Hatherley reviews a new book outlining the shortcomings (and successes) of British Rail architecture
The row over Amin Taha’s Islington office reveals the poverty of the planning system, says Owen Hatherley
The Narkomfin apartments are a model for urban living that shames most of our current efforts, writes Owen Hatherley
It follows all the Urban Renaissance precepts, yet this scheme is as grim as the 80s Docklands that Rogers was reacting against, says Owen Hatherley
Concluding his Eurovisionaries series, Owen Hatherley visits Narva, a city at the most eastern point of Estonia separated from Russia by a river, and the point where two very different versions of ‘Europe’ meet
The architectural legacy of the Franco era looms large in the Spanish capital with little trace of the historic architecture you’d expect
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