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Degas vu
This week the National Gallery announced its intention to construct a completely new wing, to allow more works of art to be displayed and...

Chris Rogers
Sep 14, 20258 min read


Concrete decisions. Sometimes.
The Barbican is to spend millions improving signage, revealing original features and remodelling its foyers (2025). The Barbican is to...

Chris Rogers
Aug 31, 20256 min read


Palladio: Volume housebuilder
At the height of the Renaissance, Italian architect Andrea Palladio created a series of exquisite rural villas in the Veneto region that...

Chris Rogers
Aug 10, 20255 min read


No oil painting
The National Gallery in Trafalgar Square reopened its Sainsbury Wing in May, after two years of building works to brighten and reshape...

Chris Rogers
Jul 5, 20255 min read


‘Membering Middx
As any pub bore will tell you Middlesex no longer exists, having been abolished as a county sixty years ago. It isn’t even necessary in addresses anymore, the post town of that name having continued for a couple of decades more before itself being broken up. But memories of Middlesex remain deeply embedded in the culture, streets and buildings of London, from the borders of Hertfordshire right down to the Thames. I thought I’d recover a few of those memories this warm London

Chris Rogers
May 31, 20255 min read


Après moi le (petit) deluge
Hidden behind the fences, trees and flowers of a quiet Hertfordshire housing estate stands a remnant of one of World War 2’s most daring...

Chris Rogers
May 26, 20255 min read


Eve of destruction
An Englishman, a Welshman, a Scotsman and an Irishman visit the Queen Elizabeth II memorial in London… It sounds like the start of a bad...

Chris Rogers
May 16, 20255 min read
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