English Heritage has over 400 historic monuments including buildings, places from world-famous prehistoric sites to grand medieval castles and Roman forts but not British concrete buildings that seek to rehabilitate as much-maligned architectural style. Concrete is coming back to fashion, as Denys Lasdun’s National Theatre was voted Britain’s most-hated building. Architect and historian at…
Modernism celebrates the century and its consequences are all around us, built into our everyday lived environments. Its place in Britain’s history is fiercely contested and its role in our future is the subject of ongoing controversy, although modernist buildings have changed our cities, politics, and identity forever. Own Hatherley applauds the ambition and explores…
London’s Zenith was the era of Georgian town squares, during 1700-1800, an imperial city which finds itself at the centre of world’s trade, empire, finance and manufacture. Andrew Saint, an architectural historian, conveys the excitement, diversity and richness of London at a time when the city was at the height of its power, uniqueness and…
Suella Braverman, the attorney general, said: “ It is important to find out the truth of the circumstances of the June 2017 fire in which 72 people were killed, so key witnesses in the Grenfell Tower inquiry have won a bid to prevent their oral evidence being used against them in a criminal trial and…
China’s Nanchang twin tower in Jiangxi Province now has the world’s largest LED wall, beating Burj Khalifa’s 828-meter in Dubai, the world’s tallest tower. The LED wall of the Jiangxi 303 Greenland Center, a 303-metre-high twin tower in the provincial capital Nanchang, has an area of 35,300 square metres, breaking the record of the 32,400…
SUSHI SAMBA restaurant had to be evacuated after a fire broke out on the 38th floor London Fire Brigade were called to Heron Tower, 110 Bishopsgate, EC2N 4AY, just before 2am on 6th June 2015, Saturday morning when a fire broke out under the floor of the Sushi Samba’s smoking terrace. The outdoor space which…
Saudi Arabia will build the world’s largest hotel, a 45-storeyed structure with 10,000 rooms in 12 towers, at £ 2.3 million (USD 3.5 billion) in the holy city of Mecca. Architect Dar Al Handasah aims to build the world’s largest hotel, the Abraj Kudai hotel by 2017 and has a proposed total built-up area…
The Shard, a 95-storey skyscraper in Southwark, London, the glass clad pyramidal tower with 72 floors, standing 309.6meters high is currently the tallest building in the European Union and also the second tallest free-standing structure in the United Kingdom, after the concrete tower at Emley Moor transmitting station. construction began in March 2009; it was topped out on 30…