Category Archives: architecture

Organic crackers

Posted on June 16, 2009 by Charles Lambert

Faced with the prospect of Berlusconi becoming president of all he purveys, I suppose I ought to be feeling more generous towards the idea of a non-elected royal family. They aren’t all bad, after all, unless useless is necessarily a … Continue reading →

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Colour chart, Colchester

Posted on May 30, 2008 by Charles Lambert
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The minute and the immense

Posted on March 3, 2008 by Charles Lambert

There’s an expression for someone who has to travel a long way to discover something he could have found more easily on his doorstep. Whatever that expression is, it could certainly be applied to me as far as the work … Continue reading →

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Travelling

Posted on January 5, 2008 by Charles Lambert

Coming back to London after Christmas, Jane and I were forced by engineering works on the lines to change at Birmingham. Not just trains, but stations. We had to cross the centre of Birmingham on foot, from New Street to … Continue reading →

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Sick building

Posted on November 29, 2007 by Charles Lambert

The university language centre, where I work, is on the seventh floor of one of Rome’s ugliest buildings, halfway between the Pyramid and St Paul outside the Walls. Thrown up in the 1970s, it manages to seem both shoddy and … Continue reading →

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Recreational drugs

Posted on November 28, 2007 by Charles Lambert

This is painted on the outside wall of the basement of the building in which I work.The care with which the mushroom has been rendered, in all its – how shall I say this? – hallucinatory splendour is in stark … Continue reading →

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Hausmann rules, but not always

Posted on September 14, 2007 by Charles Lambert

One of the joys of Paris – of central Paris, at least – is the endless variation on the theme of Hausmann; street after street, quartier after quartier, of houses that follow the same essential rules of architecture, yet each … Continue reading →

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