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Lisbon
One of the finest cities I have had the privilege of visiting, only lightly touched by the grim hand of modernism.
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The ‘Other Modern’ in Portugal
Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Luís Cristino da Silva (architect) Guarda, Portugal; 1939–1942 [A] core aspiration can be discerned that runs through the entire [architectural] output of the “Estado Novo”,...
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Pretoria Philadelphia
Andries Pretorius grew up on his father’s farm near Graaf-Reinet in the Cape of Good Hope, but the Great Trek took him (and many other Boers) into the South African interior. Pretorius’s victory,...
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City Hall
In a town known for its buildings, New York’s City Hall looms large in the imagination yet its architecture is under-appreciated. The 1802 design competition was won by Joseph-François Mangin and John...
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A Chapel in Bavaria
The Friedhofskapelle, or cemetery chapel, in Herrsching on the Ammersee in Upper Bavaria is a wonderful model of a small church or chapel. It was designed in 1926 by Roderich Fick, who was a disciple...
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The Governor’s Room
Pursuant to my post of John Bartlestone’s photographs of City Hall, I came across this photo the other day and it reminded me that this is still one of my favourite rooms in all New York. There’s...
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Classical New England
A reminder that Russell Kirk once described the piano nobile of the Old State House in Hartford, Connecticut, as: “perhaps the most finely proportioned rooms in all America” Given the elegant...
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Knickerbocker Spires
Before the age of the skyscrapers, New York’s church spires dominated the horizon and dwarfed their neighbours just like in the medieval towns and cities of the old world — as this photo from the...
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Holborn Town Hall
The Metropolitan Borough of Holborn was the smallest borough of London both in geography and population so perhaps it’s not surprising that its town hall was a pretty but rather humble affair. The...
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Soho Iridescent
Stiff & Trevillion’s 40 Beak Street in London Beak Street in London is teeming with turquoise iridescence since the completion of a new office building by the architectural firm of Stiff &...
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Happy New Year
The castle at Český Krumlov (or Krummau) in southern Bohemia, as photographed in winter by Libor Sváček. Previously: Krummau, Crown of the Moldau | Krummau on the Moldau
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Chartres Disfigured
Chartres disfigured Plans for modern monstrosity in venerable cathedral’s forecourt MORE BAD NEWS from Chartres. Fresh from the completion of a controversial and much criticised renovation of the...
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Neo-Classical New York
The dome of the old Police Headquarters Centre Street in New York. (From: The Classicist, No. 14, p. 83)
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Sir John Soane
Sir John Soane still looms over the intervening centuries of architecture and design in Great Britain, but I’ve never actually known what he looked like. Apparently this is him, in an 1804 portrait by...
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Haussmanhattan
Paris and New York are two cities radically different in design and character, but they are smashed together in this little project from architect Luis Fernandes. ‘Haussmanhattan’ is a portmanteau of...
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The Manor House
Image: © HughJLF For devoted fanatics of Netherlandic architecture — I’m sure you’d count yourself as one as much as I do — a curious example of Dutch revival architecture can be found at No. 316...
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A Corner in Camberwell
4a-6 Grove Lane by MATT Architecture Alongside some of its neighbouring streets in Camberwell, Grove Lane has some of the best preserved rows of Georgian houses in south London, interspersed with a few...
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Notre-Dame de Paris
Project for the Restoration of Notre-Dame de Paris Eugène Viollet-le-Duc 1844
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Rashtrapati Bhavan
Debates rage in the trad community as to whether, in the context of India, it is more sound to support the Congress Party or to take some relief in the policies of Mr Modi and his Indian People’s Party...
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The greatest church architect you’ve never heard of
The greatest church architect you’ve never heard of Ludwig Becker and His Churches For such a prolific church architect of such high quality, not much is known about Ludwig Becker and, alas, he seems...
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