Is progress a quantitative or qualitative measure? Koolhaus has been laid out bare at the Barbican. Presented here are 29 pages of a fax to Arup about the structure of the CCTV building,  48 floor-plan maquettes for a plinth at the National Art Museum of China,  33 drafts of an unfinished book about Lagos, 20 [...]

Sad news indeed. I remember the office buildings being constructed. My father worked for Arups, and he took me on site when I was a child. I have memories of the Richard Serra sculpture being craned into place, and ascending one of the half-finished buildings in a construction lift, with a hard-hat wobbling around on [...]

Sir John Soanes House and the Hunterian Museum have at least two things in common. They are at opposite ends of the same London Square, and both house a collection of historical objects that informed a life’s work. The Hunterian holds a large range of zoological specimens that have been prodded, examined and compared for [...]