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A Short History of British Architecture by Simon Jenkins review – Doric columns and grand designs: the greatest hits

The Observer 17 Nov 2024
“I want people to point at buildings, laugh, cry or get angry ... He seems uncomfortable with more creative and inventive architects, such as Nicholas Hawksmoor (whose use of baroque elements is called “tentative”) or Sir John Soane ... Photograph ... Share ... .
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British museums are missing a trick – foreign visitors should pay to see our treasures

AOL 17 Oct 2024
Idle because you don’t have to sit an exam explaining why. Spoiler alert; it’s because they were threaded on strings rather than carried in a purse ... Dear Reader, I am one ... Moreover, Woods Towers already resembles Sir John Soane’s Museum ... it’s not ... .
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‘I make architects’ dreams come true’: Hanif Kara, the magician who makes impossible buildings stay up

The Observer 08 Oct 2024
From oil rigs to rollercoasters and beyond … Kara at Sir John Soane’s Museum ... Hanif Kara will give the Soane Medal lecture on 26 November at the Royal Academy; tickets here.
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Four takeaways from San Jose State’s comeback win over Nevada

East Bay Times 06 Oct 2024
Quarterback battle reignited ... Two weeks ago, Washington State quarterback John Mateer had 111 rushing yards ... It wasn’t all bad for the defense, Soane Toia and John Ward both recorded a sack, the first of the season for the defensive linemen ... And it did.
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Paul Rudolph: the artful architect who inspired Foster and Rogers

AOL 06 Oct 2024
For those who might not cross the Atlantic to see an architecture show, there’s an accompanying book of the same name by Abraham Thomas, formerly director of Sir John Soane’s Museum in London, who curated the Met’s exhibition ... • Materialized Space ... .
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Seven of the UK’s best university cities (for parents to enjoy)

The Times/The Sunday Times 17 Sep 2024
For non-college sights, you’ve the British Museum-ish Ashmolean (free; ashmolean.org) and, together, the Museum of Natural History (free; www.glam.ox.ac.uk) and John Soane-ish Pitt Rivers Museum (free; prm.ox.ac.uk).
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News in pictures: Wednesday, September 11, 2024

The Times/The Sunday Times 11 Sep 2024
Chiara Raponi cleans a bust of Sir John Soane on display in his former home in Lincoln’s Inn Fields in London, which is now the Sir John Soane’s Museum and is full of antiquities and architectural salvage.
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What's on? Top 10 TV and streaming tips for Sunday

RTE 25 Aug 2024
Fiona also finds out about 18th-century architect John Soane and the celebrity friends he entertained in the house, and meets Matthew Sweet to relive the glory days of Ealing comedy ... John Mayall.
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A very British surrealist and the Tories’ legacy in cartoons – the week in art

The Observer 12 Jul 2024
Exhibition of the week ... Also showing ... Sir John Soane’s Museum, London, until 19 January ... View image in fullscreen ... Photograph ... Their young minds are “blank slates”, according to optimistic 18th-century beliefs grounded in the philosophy of John Locke ... .
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Letters: what Biden and Ronaldo have in common

The Spectator 11 Jul 2024
True conservatism. Sir ... James Bench-Capon ... Sir ... Sir ... Calvin Po (Arts, 6 July) may be interested to know that four of the original Ionic pillars from John Soane’s Bank of England can be found at Templewood, a house built in 1938 for Sir Samuel Hoare MP ... .
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‘It’s like Where’s Wally in broken Britain’: Ben Jennings on his Tory-era take on A ...

The Guardian 09 Jul 2024
... 14 years of Conservative rule Guardian cartoonist Ben Jennings and I stand forlornly before Sir John Soane’s Museum in London as we are told that is it closed.
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‘It’s like Where’s Wally in broken Britain’: Ben Jennings on his Tory-era take on A Rake’s Progress

The Observer 09 Jul 2024
Guardian cartoonist Ben Jennings and I stand forlornly before Sir John Soane’s Museum in London as we are told that is it closed ... The former BBC arts supremo apparently thinks what the hell and gives us a VIP tour of Soane’s atmospheric house.
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Forget monetary policy, the Bank of England's greatest crime was architectural

The Spectator 04 Jul 2024
It decided to demolish much of its own building, designed by the great Georgian neoclassical architect John Soane ...Rotunda of the Bank of England’, 1798, by Joseph Gandy [© Sir John Soane’s Museum / Bridgeman Images].
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Save Britain’s Heritage adds 86 new entries to Buildings at Risk register

Building 01 Jul 2024
Moggerhanger House in Bedford ... Moggerhanger House in Bedford, added this year, is an “exceptional” grade I-listed country house remodelled by John Soane between 1809 and 1812 and regarded as an important example of his work ... .
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Our experts choose their hidden gem in the British Museum — what’s your favourite?

The Times/The Sunday Times 28 Jun 2024
Puzzles. Challenge yourself with today’s puzzles. Crossword. Polygon. Sudoku ... It is an atlas, an encyclopaedia and a multi-volume illustrated history of the world’s civilisations ... That history is never settled ... Culture ... How John Soane created his mad museum.

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