She hasn’t been there yet, but still Berna Cox thinks America needs a bit of work to bring it up to the mark — or at least that how she sees it on Google maps. Last night, I stood at the base of the Eiffel Tower and gazed up at is pinnacle piercing the sky. [...]
Form and function and on budget
Dr John Wallace looks at a ‘pop-up’ book that examines five buildings by one of the most innovative and important architects of our time — Frank Gehry. Architecture is a utilitarian activity because people have to live and work in buildings. But architecture is also a visual art, like painting and sculpture. The two processes [...]
Digging deep in these recessionary times
Shirley Lanigan says the rewards of growing your own vegetables are many. Even if it won’t solve your financial problems, the satisfaction from growing your own vegetables, herbs or fruit is enormous. Will growing vegetables be the saving of the nation? Is it at all possible that getting back to nature will prevent our going [...]
Golf swings — and chariots for triers
Berna Cox bows to pressure and swings her club on the greens at St Andrew’s before embracing her inner Olympian, Chariots of Fire-style. You can’t,” she scolded me, “come here and not do it.” ‘She’ in this instance is daughter No. 2 who is now a resident Scot; the ‘here’ in question is St Andrew’s [...]