One major revolution in architecture is presented each year, and yet the four walls, floor and ceiling of the box are inevitable
The inevitable box: architecture’s main achievement and its main trauma
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What makes a great city?
Notopia: The fall of streets in the sky
The three-dimensional city was undoubtedly naive, but the implications of its disappearance are profound
Notopia: who is the city for?
London is becoming entirely unaffordable leading to a kind of hollowing out of the city which New Yorkers are long used to
Notopia: the copycat city and the rise of duplitecture
Lost monuments are built again and the work of starchitects copied: is this the new course of architectural evolution or thoughtless appropriation?
Notopia: the Singapore paradox and the style of Generic Individualism
Singapore has reached the crisis of its perfection
Notopia: ‘The post-industrial hollowing out of cities is a tragedy for civic identity’
Many cities have been hollowed out due to the loss of industries that once gave them meaning, many of which are still struggling to form a new identity
Editorial: Notopia is less a warning than a prophecy of doom
The metropolis as a place of exchange, dialogue and delight between diverse groups of people is being eradicated
