Charles Saumarez Smith

COMING SOON... here's a sneak peek of Charles Saumarez Smith's forthcoming book on John Vanbrugh: charlessaumarezsmith.com/2025/08/13/joh… #JohnVanbrugh #VanbrughArchitect

When it came to the layout of King’s Cross, the architects kept as many as possible of the existing buildings like the German Gymnasium which looks as if it has been air-freighted from Berlin, writes @CSaumarezSmith thecritic.co.uk/issues/decembe…

The Warburg Institute provides a good model of how to renovate buildings from the recent past, writes @CSaumarezSmith thecritic.co.uk/the-warburg-re…

@OSaumarezSmith David Valinsky is due to publish one. Lund Humphries.

A monograph on Prior is much needed.

E.S. Prior’s powerfully peculiar music school for Winchester College (1903) - I love this moment in architecture where the arts and crafts becomes strange and urbane.

The most conspicuous monuments of the last decade are the vast online shopping warehouses, writes @CSaumarezSmith thecritic.co.uk/will-labour-bu…

How did a plan to develop the site of the Museum of London so rapidly devolve from a shining concert hall into plans for looming, soulless tower blocks @CSaumarezSmith on the story of London Wall West thecritic.co.uk/a-wilting-wall…

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