One encouraging feature of the last few decades has been the increasing willingness to find new uses for old buildings. Imaginative repurposing has become common. Such projects provide a counter…
Park your car. Stroll along the promenade. Enjoy a coffee or a light lunch. Pay for your parking and drive off happily. Those were our simple pleasures at Largs, that jewel…
These days, notifications on our phones are so numerous that few of them divert our attention. However, I was recently delighted to hear about the return (possibly just as a…
I saw this cracking suit in a store on Sunday. Marketing wise, it appeared to be cleverly placed just inside the store entrance and though I describe it as a…
W G Sebald’s novel, Austerlitz (2001), is a beautiful meditation on time, history and memory, with great contemporary resonance. Austerlitz, saved by the Kindertransport effort, rekindles suppressed memories through architectural…
Last Friday was the eleventh day of the eleventh month. I spent the eleventh hour in the garden of remembrance at Westminster Abbey. The reason was that years back, like…
The level of ‘noise’ we have to endure in our modern lives is substantial, with messages and notifications pulsing through our phones at all times. In any city centre, we…
I received my electricity bill for our garage this week. Well, in reality, it is a glorified storage space â a place where any and all junk is offloaded, as…
Well, just about the end of September and there’s a chill in the air. It feels like summer, excellent though it was, is now a very distant memory. October welcomes…
If one measure of a successful art installation is the degree to which it elicits a response, then Cat Madden’s Mind-Wandering Corridor is a triumph. Rather than something created by…