Writer On Architecture | ChrisMRogers

The nation’s memory

I’ve been moved by events in the past dozen days, from the new Prime Minister’s ‘God save the King’ outside No 10 Downing Street to the...

Net zero sum game

A large, prominent commercial block on a major London street is to be demolished. The decision is criticised by professionals and...

‘Patriots’ at the Almeida Theatre

For a powerful man to claim ‘I have the country’s best interests at heart’ is easy; assessing whether he is right is rather harder. When...

Screen saver

Today the British Film Institute regains control of the IMAX cinema it built at Waterloo twenty years ago, a decade after being forced by...

Home work

In three months’ time Leighton House, the studio-turned-museum built by artist Frederic Leighton in the latter part of the nineteenth...

"Things you people wouldn't believe..." Blade Runner at forty

Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, initially unsuccessful but now an accepted classic and hugely influential, was released four decades ago...

Hello darkness, my old friend

You might think you know Walter Sickert, creator of dark interiors suggesting darker deeds. But as I found at Tate Britain’s current...