Author Archives: Catherine Slessor

On the Isle of Wight, Gianni Botsford Architects have transformed two redundant farm buildings into an armature for domestic life and artistic activity

A new public square is central to Jamie Fobert Architects and Purcell’s reframing of the National Portrait Gallery in London

Architecture’s fascination with napkin sketches seems innocuous, but it reinforces the myth of the lone creative genius

Cath Slessor sends a postcard to Owen Luder’s brutalist car park in Gateshead, demolished to make way for a Tesco

There is no sustainable way to build an airport in the time of climate catastrophe

Convulsive changes in the media landscape have revolutionised architectural discourse and its dissemination. Yet within this new normal, there is still a place for long-lived, provocative organs such as the AR to hold architects to account

During the ’30s and ’40s, the AR consolidated its position as the leading English language architectural magazine, its embrace of Modernism laced with tradition and scholarship creating a potently eclectic mix

Charles Jencks and Maggie Keswick’s house in London’s Holland Park is embarking on an afterlife as a museum and salon

A phenomenon exported around the world, the wrapped monuments of Christo and Jeanne-Claude posthumously return to Paris

The ‘Stansted snake’ shows how air travel became a Boschian hellscape for monetising movement