I hadn’t been to Printworks, the six thousand-capacity nightclub and events venue in south London, before this month. I doubt I would have been at all if it weren’t facing demolition. I... Read more »
In the early 1960s, London was boring. The population was in decline, the buildings were black with pollution and there were still bombsites in the City. Public transport was hard to come... Read more »
The London architecture you are permitted to notice, Caroline Knowles reckons, is just money on display. In Serious Money: Walking Plutocratic London, she describes the overweening spike of Renzo Piano’s Shard as... Read more »
In the summer of 2018, Lucy Knell-Taylor, a youth worker at King’s College Hospital in Camberwell, noticed that teenagers were talking more often about guns and knives. One girl said she had... Read more »
