The glass neighbour that poses a challenge to St Paul’s: One of the country’s best-loved landmarks, St Paul’s Cathedral, is to have a stark, modernist neighbour designed by controversial Scottish architect John McAslan, who has been called ‘that steel and glass man’ by the Prince of Wales. [Guardian]
Our right to see the trees: Parks and squares aren’t a luxury, but an essential feature of the urban infrastructure [Guardian]
Architecture of Vito Acconci: The 68-year-old poet-artist-architect has built only a handful of structures since officially declaring himself an architect in the late 1980s, yet he has probably done more to shake up the field with his theories and fantastical renderings than most architects do with bricks and mortar. [Philadelphia Inquirer]
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