Charles Saumarez Smith
British architectural historian and museum director; director of the National Portrait Gallery from 1994 to 2002, of the National Gallery from 2002 to 2007, and secretary and chief executive of the Royal Academy of Arts from 2007 to 2018.
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Our reading
Liverpool Street Station can be modernised while keeping its original Victorian character.
Their wordsSo, it is clear that it is perfectly possible to protect the original Victorian character of the station while at the same time modernising it.
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Their wordsIt feels like a model of how – sometimes – a long drawn-out planning process can have a good outcome.
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Their wordsIt is hard to think of anyone more significant in international architectural practice than Frank Gehry who died yesterday.
- 2 weeks earlier
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Their wordsI sense that new towns are very scared of density, hypnotised by the early twentieth-century dream of the garden city.
↗Poundbury (2)charlessaumarezsmith.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsI can’t really understand why it attracts such extreme ire, except that it is thoughtfully traditional which architects absolutely hate.
↗Poundbury (2)charlessaumarezsmith.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
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Our reading
British councils are often careless about maintaining high-rise housing and ignore fire warnings.
Their wordscouncils, and not just Tory ones, are often cavalier about maintenance and ignore the warnings of potential fire and its consequences.
- 8 weeks earlier
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Their wordsIn general, I have not been impressed by the City’s approach to sustainability