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 @CSaumarezSmiththecritic.co.uk/issues/decembe…
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.
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…