Chris Rogers
Une étoile is born
Thirty years ago today, a shiny new British Rail Class 373 electric train left Waterloo station in London. Thirty years ago today, a...
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Nov 116 min read
The Justus league
Who created this unsigned painting of the Communion of the Apostles, which dates from the late 15th century and was made for the ducal...
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Chris Rogers
Oct 116 min read
(Re)facing the future
The words ‘face’ and ‘façade’ are connected etymologically but also practically. Just as the former tells us something about a person’s...
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Sep 192 min read
Lowering the Standard
A copy of the last-ever Evening Standard on a pub table in Holborn a few hours ago. Next week a new, Thursday-only publication will...
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Chris Rogers
Sep 113 min read
Building changes, building memories
Today’s appeal by English Heritage for our help with finding commemorative blue plaques lost to war, redevelopment or planning is also a...
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Chris Rogers
Aug 265 min read
The horror, the horror
The sustainability agenda is now driving a host of projects that are stripping back, remodelling and upscaling office blocks originally...
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Aug 55 min read
‘The Years’ at the Almeida
What is a woman’s life, when remembered? Achievements, failures, gains, losses? What part does society play? And does the answer change...
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