Driving northward along the A11 from Cambridge, towards Norwich, a roundabout approaches. You pull up at the red light; to the left the golden arches of a McDonald’s, the right, a Burger King. When the lights change you pull off and motor around towards the third exit, shifting into fourth…

The Cambridge Biomedical Campus is Europe’s largest site for biomedical and life science research. It is home to AstraZeneca’s Discovery Centre, a state-of-the-art research and development (R&D) facility costed at approximately one billion pounds, research centres belonging to Cancer Research UK, Abcam and Cambridge University and two hospitals, Royal Papworth…

It is something which has happened to all of us. As we infinitely scroll through the sea of content on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn or TikTok etc, an advert will show itself, pushing a product or service we were recently talking about or looking up. …

It’s the scale that gets you, as the horizon becomes a memory. In a jet lagged haze, I stare through a window, laying prone on a stretched out sofa in my front room. I gaze at terraced houses, adorned with chimneys and swaying TV aerials which underscore a blue sky…

Sat on the sofa at 10 every Saturday morning, around the time when the morning news gives way to numerous cooking shows, my girlfriend’s watch will buzz. In quick succession she will learn that her mum, dad and sister have just completed a ‘work out’. This in and of itself…

A year ago today I published my most read essay, where I explained the spatial triad of Henri Lefebvre through the battle between school authorities and skateboarders over the use of the famous El Toro stair set in Southern California. What I love about Lefebvre’s concept is that it can…

Resilience. Everything can be resilient. Well, it seems that way anyway. Everything, from yoghurt drinks, sofas and the worst excesses of British culture to cities, have all been associated with the qualities of resilience. For resilience is a word which, as a result of the pandemic, has casually slid into…

The allure of capital accumilation threatens to wrench some of Europe’s elite clubs from the communities which birthed them. This geographic dislocation has happened before in some of the world’s most important cities. The currently evolving (at the time of writing) coup d’etat being undertaken by those involved with the…

The days when one of architecture’s most controversial styles looks at its most resplendent — This morning I awoke, like I often do, and fired up my laptop from which I lazily scrolled through the various news and sports websites; an act which encompasses the entirety of my pre-shower morning routine. During my virtual stroll from webpage to webpage, I came across Hannah Jane Parkinson’s…