What does a building say about the society that made it? These opinion pieces sit at the intersection of architectural theory and philosophy, pulling on threads that lead somewhere unexpected.
As kids, we understood something architects seem to forget: the floor mattered. We turned it into lava, stacking sofa pillows into mountains. We slid across polished hallways in socks and transformed staircases into rollercoasters. Climbing through life we found play…
Stand on London Bridge and look up at the Shard. Renzo Piano’s glass splinter has loomed over this stretch of the Thames since 2012, and in that time something strange has happened to it: nothing. It looks exactly as it…
Poker has never been a game of chance. The first thing you notice is the light, or rather, the careful absence of it. Every serious poker room is dim in the same deliberate way. Not the gloom of neglect but…
Architecture’s only martyr was a gender neutral toilet An ode to “Divisible by 2” You step into a unsuspecting courtyard and there it stands, a simple building with two doors labelled ‘Man’ and ‘Woman’. What do you think is through…
