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Christopher Beanland

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Christopher Beanland writes about architecture, the arts and the media.

<p>At night, Shanghai’s architecture becomes even more eye-catching </p>
China

Shanghai city guide: Things to see and do in China’s megacity

<p>Picks include Merseyside’s Birkenhead Park, the original inspiration behind Central Park in New York </p>
UK

11 best parks in the UK for soaking up the summer sun

<p>This city’s profile has bloomed with the global rise of K-Pop and Korean cinema</p>
Asia

The ultimate guide to Seoul

Aberdeen has swapped oil for art
Scotland

The ultimate guide to Aberdeen

Exquisite views from Mount Ainslie
Australasia & Pacific

10 reasons to visit perpetually underrated Canberra

Tirana is a big feature of Albania's plan to improve infrastructure
Albania

The ultimate guide to Tirana

Dusseldorf gets in the festive spirit with its Christmas market in front of the historic city hall
Germany

The ultimate guide to Dusseldorf

The capital of Belarus is studded with Soviet-era structures
Belarus

The ultimate guide to Minsk

Riga is the coolest capital in the Baltics
Latvia

Why Riga is the Baltics’ answer to Berlin

Thomas Harding's family were kicked out of the house before the war
News & Advice

This simple summerhouse near Berlin hides the most incredible story

The Bauhaus was built in 1926
Europe

Inside Germany's centre of the Bauhaus movement

Studio 144, Southampton's £15m new arts complex
UK

How Southampton became the place to visit this year

Seattle's downtown is compact and walkable
Washington

How to spend a weekend in Seattle

Washington

How to spend a weekend in Seattle

Seattle's downtown is compact and walkable
Spomeniks are super-sized sculptures
Europe

Croatia’s under-the-radar spomenik sculptures

25hours has swiftly become Germany's best design chain
Hotels

The hotel busting Swiss stereotypes

Far out: look beyond the UK for some of the best line-ups this summer
Europe

Best music festivals 2017: Top Europe picks, from Primavera to Waves

Villa I Giullari is only half an hour's walk from central Florence but feels a world away
Hotels

I Giullari, a taste of classic Tuscany on the outskirts of Florence

Villa I Giullari is only half an hour's walk from central Florence but feels a world away
Hotels

I Giullari, a taste of classic Tuscany on the outskirts of Florence

Max Patté’s sculpture, ‘Solace in the Wind’, looks out over the harbour
New Zealand

Spend the perfect weekend in Wellington

Partying at Horizon, which moves to Andorra in 2017
News & Advice

Winter music festivals: The best events across Europe and beyond

The stunning ‘Bush Capital’ is surrounded by forest and farmland
Australia

How to spend a weekend in Canberra

The Domes' section of beach
Greece

Hotel review: Domes Noruz, Crete

Ballet of Destruction by Martine Feipel and Jean Bechameil
Europe

High culture in the Low Countries: Luxembourg's new arts hub

Sea bridge at Sellin, Rügen island
Europe

Take a Baltic break this summer

Flow, Helsinki
Europe

Travel guide to... Music festivals in Europe for 2016

A life on the ocean waves: the Isle of Wight hovercraft service
News & Advice

It’s the cross-Channel hovercraft’s 50th birthday

Sea bridge at Sellin, Rügen island
Europe

Take a Baltic break this summer

Flow, Helsinki
Europe

Travel guide to... Music festivals in Europe for 2016

A life on the ocean waves: the Isle of Wight hovercraft service
News & Advice

It’s the cross-Channel hovercraft’s 50th birthday

High Rise film still
Features

How property is portrayed on screen

Features

How property is portrayed on screen

High Rise film still
The bedroom
Hotels

Grätzlhotel, Vienna - hotel review

Christchurch's "Cardboard Cathedral", designed by award-winning Japanese architect Shigeru Ban
Features

Should architects be doing more to prepare us for disaster?

The rooftop suite
Hotels

Sleep in a rooftop railway carriage in Brussels

Red letter day: Sir David says that Miles Newlyn's TP Atten type is a great compliment
News

How Sir David Attenborough's voice has inspired a new typeface

Red letter day: Sir David says that Miles Newlyn's TP Atten type is a great compliment
News

How Sir David Attenborough's voice has inspired a new typeface

Margaret Calvert with one of her significant signs
Features

Britain’s transport signage is celebrating its 50th birthday

Looking up: Chicago cityscape
Americas

Chicago: Skyscrapers, Mies Van Der Rohe and the Architectural Biennial

Zaha Hadids Riverside Gallery
UK

The Turner Prize highlights Glasgow's artistic credentials

Bedroom at the B&B
Hotels

The 5 Rooms, Barcelona: Hotel review

Come over to the dark side: Banksy’s Dismaland park in Weston-super-Mare
News & Advice

Why are we all so addicted to theme parks?

The roof garden at JFK's T5 allows travellers to stretch their legs
News & Advice

Bring rooftop terraces back to UK airports

Croatia's coast is ideal for sailing
Europe

Croatia: From music festivals to coastal cruising

Croatia's coast is ideal for sailing
Europe

Croatia: From music festivals to coastal cruising

Wing men: anticipating a summer of DeLorean events, enthusiasts inspect a model in Belfast, where the sports car was built
Home News

How the DeLorean car brought pride to a troubled Ulster

Eileen Gray
Features

Eileen Gray: New biopic and restoration project

Standing room only: the terraces at Villa Park in 1935
News

Could we be seeing the return of legal standing at British football

News

Could we be seeing the return of legal standing at British football

Standing room only: the terraces at Villa Park in 1935
Unité d'Habitation
Europe

Le Corbusier in France: On the trail of a controversial concrete king

Croatia Rocks
News & Advice

Combine a festival and holiday: From Primavera Sound to the Garden

Unisphere
News & Advice

Expo 2015: World-class icons from the Eiffel Tower to the Space Needle

Martin Roth director of the V&A since 2011
Features

All of This Belongs To You exhibition: The V&A is a hotbed of popular

Martin Roth director of the V&A since 2011
Features

All of This Belongs To You exhibition: The V&A is a hotbed of popular

Martin Roth director of the V&A since 2011
Features

All of This Belongs To You exhibition: The V&A is a hotbed of popular

Riding the Caterpillar at Margate's Dreamland, 1954
Home News

Can a revamped Dreamland help to reinvigorate the Kent town of

The towns that tech built: Mark Zuckerberg (second right), and architect Frank Gehry
Tech

Facebook is planning a company town - would you want to live there?

Memmo Alfama Hotel, Lisbon
News & Advice

From Lisbon to Lyon: Five city break destinations you should try

Architecture

Tunnel renaissance: Why cities are hiding roads down in the ground

Glasgow wanted to demolish its Red Road flats last year
Architecture

Tower blocks: do we love them or hate them?

Glasgow wanted to demolish its Red Road flats last year
Architecture

Tower blocks: do we love them or hate them?

Photograph of Mackintosh, 1893 by James Craig Annan (c) T&R Annan, courtesy GlasgowMackintosh.com)
Features

Return of the Mac: How a disastrous fire put architect Charles Rennie

Credit Lyonnais, 30 Cannon Street, London, was the first building internationally to be fully clad in double-skinned panels of glass-fibre reinforced cement (GRC)
Architecture

English Heritage adds 14 post-war office buildings to its protected

Safety fast: a sprinkler system goesinto action as soon as a fire isdetected in the Euro Tunnel
News & Advice

How fire is a tunnel's worst enemy

The Airlander in its Bedfordshire hangar
News & Advice

The return of the airship: Once the stuff of history, dirigibles are

News & Advice

The return of the airship: Once the stuff of history, dirigibles are

The Airlander in its Bedfordshire hangar
The Danish designs are said to create less 'visual noise' than the traditional British pylon
News

Current Affairs: The stylish electricity pylons sending shockwaves

News & Advice

Mountain railway journeys: Five ways to let the train take the strain

The new Tate Britain
Culture

Is there a future for the traditional museum?

Gas holders in south London (Getty Images)
Architecture

Gasometers: Icons of energy architecture

Gas holders in south London (Getty Images)
Architecture

Gasometers: Icons of energy architecture

The final nail: Newman Brothers in Birmingham made coffin fittings for Winston Churchill and the Queen Mother
History

Britain's first coffin factory museum: Dead popular

Christopher Stark conducts The Multi-Story Orchestra as they perform Jean Sibelius' 5th Symphony at the Peckham Rye Car Park on June 21, 2014 in London, England. The performance is one of a series that the orchestra will be performing in the South London
Features

How disused car parks are being transformed into cultural centres

Architecture

The ten best underrated buildings in Britain

Bronx Zoo
Americas

The Bronx: New York's hottest neighbourhood is Yankee doodle dandy

Growing salad leaves at Clapham North
Home News

Meet the men transforming London Underground's derelict stations

Hit the roof: hot-tub cinema east London
Architecture

Rooftop living: Reach for the skies

Lifestyle

Are bungalows really the solution to our housing crisis? The housing

The Isokon Gallery, London NW3, is open on Saturdays and Sundays until October
Culture

Pioneering apartment block is back to its former glory

Finzels twisting Bridge - Bristol
Architecture

Over and above architecture: Bridges that are going places

Up my street: The residents of the elegant Moray Place in Edinburgh's Georgian New Town
Features

Secret History of Our Streets reveals window into Britain's past

Future of travel: An artist's impression of Birmingham New Street station
News & Advice

Whisper it, but are the UK's railways entering a new golden age?

Canvas can be beautiful: The Schlumberger building in Cambridge
Architecture

Could the demand for affordable housing be solved by going back to

UK

The renaissance of the pier

Instant appeal: A visitor examines a photo of Andy Warhol at a Polaroid exhibition in Germany
Features

Why we still love instant photos

Heads up: Andy Scott's The Kelpies in Falkirk
Features

Supersize art: The Kelpies in Falkirk

The party line: the Kazantip music festival
Features

Kazantip: What will Russia think of Crimea's decadent music festival?

Instant appeal: A visitor examines a photo of Andy Warhol at a Polaroid exhibition in Germany
Features

Why we still love instant photos

Heads up: Andy Scott's The Kelpies in Falkirk
Features

Supersize art: The Kelpies in Falkirk

The party line: the Kazantip music festival
Features

Kazantip: What will Russia think of Crimea's decadent music festival?

Greenwich Peninsular South East London UK Sainsbury's supermarket opened 2000 architect Nicholas Grimshaw ecological design
Home News

Sainsbury's wants to say 'bye bye' to its Greenwich supermarket,

The show features work across the eras from Turner’s painting of Tintern Abbey
News

Britain's ruins tell important tales of our times

Iconic: Montreal Biosphere
Americas

In search of the strange and sublime in Montreal

Comment

Christopher Beanland: Architecture attack - what’s with our appetite

Gateshead Car Park, Owen Luder, Gateshead
Features

Concrete buildings: Brutalist beauty

This Britain

Take a punth on it: From Veganuary to Decembeard – How each month of

Google’s current HQ at Central St Giles, London
Architecture

Who would click to ‘like’ these buildings? The grand, bland plans

Bosnia's Emir Spahic celebrates his team's victory over Lithuania on 15 October, 2013
Europe

The pride of Sarajevo: How football is uniting a once bitterly divided

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