Dezeen » Jonathan Glancey http://www.dezeen.com architecture and design magazine Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:26:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Jonathan Glancey leaves the Guardian http://www.dezeen.com/2012/02/13/jonathan-glancey-leaves-the-guardian/ http://www.dezeen.com/2012/02/13/jonathan-glancey-leaves-the-guardian/#comments Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:53:45 +0000 Amy Frearson http://admin.dezeen.com/?p=192080 Dezeen Wire: British architecture critic Jonathan Glancey has announced his departure from newspaper the Guardian to pursue a freelance career. In a departing article published on Sunday the writer summarises his favourite buildings and stories from a fifteen-year stint with the publication - the Guardian. You can see our pick of Glancey's most interesting articles here.

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Dezeen Wire: British architecture critic Jonathan Glancey has announced his departure from newspaper the Guardian to pursue a freelance career. In a departing article published on Sunday the writer summarises his favourite buildings and stories from a fifteen-year stint with the publication - the Guardian.

You can see our pick of Glancey's most interesting articles here.

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Dezeen Wire: in a review for The Guardian, architecture critic Jonathan Glancey says that the new Maggie's centre in Nottingham is like something out of a fairytale and "is clearly designed to make visitors smile" – The Guardian

Glancey claims that architect Piers Gough of CZWG and fashion designer Paul Smith, who was responsible for the interior, have triumphed in their attempt at creating a homely environment for those affected by cancer, adding: "From a purely architectural and design point of view, few hospital buildings – this side of the other eight Maggie's Centres built in Britain since the 1990s – are as welcoming."

See our original story on Maggie's Nottingham and subsequent story with more images as well as all our stories on Maggie's centres.

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]]> http://www.dezeen.com/2011/11/14/maggies-centre-the-jolly-green-giant-the-guardian/feed/ 0 Anish Kapoor and Cecil Balmond's Olympic sculpture is "a grower"- The Guardian http://www.dezeen.com/2011/10/31/anish-kapoor-and-cecil-balmonds-olympic-sculpture-is-a-grower-the-guardian/ http://www.dezeen.com/2011/10/31/anish-kapoor-and-cecil-balmonds-olympic-sculpture-is-a-grower-the-guardian/#comments Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:40:24 +0000 Alyn Griffiths http://www.dezeen.com/?p=169201 Dezeen Wire: The Guardian's architecture critic Jonathan Glancey explains that the much-criticised ArcelorMittal Orbit sculpture, designed by Anish Kapoor and structural engineer Cecil Balmond for next year's Olympics in London, has been an easy target for jokes but that it demonstrates Britain's manufacturing capabilities and says it "may even effect buildings of the future just as the [...]

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Dezeen Wire: The Guardian's architecture critic Jonathan Glancey explains that the much-criticised ArcelorMittal Orbit sculpture, designed by Anish Kapoor and structural engineer Cecil Balmond for next year's Olympics in London, has been an easy target for jokes but that it demonstrates Britain's manufacturing capabilities and says it "may even effect buildings of the future just as the Eiffel Tower and the Crystal Palace did" - The Guardian

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]]> http://www.dezeen.com/2011/10/31/anish-kapoor-and-cecil-balmonds-olympic-sculpture-is-a-grower-the-guardian/feed/ 0 "Renzo Piano's new convent is spare, calm and quietly masterful"- The Guardian http://www.dezeen.com/2011/09/26/renzo-pianos-new-convent-is-spare-calm-and-quietly-masterful-the-guardian/ http://www.dezeen.com/2011/09/26/renzo-pianos-new-convent-is-spare-calm-and-quietly-masterful-the-guardian/#comments Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:25:37 +0000 Alyn Griffiths http://www.dezeen.com/?p=158520 Dezeen Wire: architecture critic Jonathan Glancey reviews the latest building by Renzo Piano, a convent near to Le Corbusier's chapel of Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp - The Guardian See more stories about Renzo Piano here and all of our stories on chapels and churches here.

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Dezeen Wire: architecture critic Jonathan Glancey reviews the latest building by Renzo Piano, a convent near to Le Corbusier's chapel of Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp - The Guardian

See more stories about Renzo Piano here and all of our stories on chapels and churches here.

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]]> http://www.dezeen.com/2011/09/26/renzo-pianos-new-convent-is-spare-calm-and-quietly-masterful-the-guardian/feed/ 0 Westfield Stratford City: "Uplifting or a vision of hell?" http://www.dezeen.com/2011/09/14/westfield-stratford-city-uplifting-or-a-vision-of-hell/ http://www.dezeen.com/2011/09/14/westfield-stratford-city-uplifting-or-a-vision-of-hell/#comments Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:03:31 +0000 Alyn Griffiths http://www.dezeen.com/?p=155083 Dezeen Wire: architecture critic Jonathan Glancey reports from the opening of Westfield Stratford City, describing it as "a hermetic citadel of commercial seduction" - The Guardian See a previous story on Westfield Stratford City by Rowan Moore of The Observer here.

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Dezeen Wire: architecture critic Jonathan Glancey reports from the opening of Westfield Stratford City, describing it as "a hermetic citadel of commercial seduction" - The Guardian

See a previous story on Westfield Stratford City by Rowan Moore of The Observer here.

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