Update – February 12th, 2018. Letter to the Guardian today. You highlight (Stonehenge tunnel: plans for £1.6bn scheme published, 8 February) Highways England’s misguided belief that the scheme will restore a sense of beauty and tranquillity to the ancient landscape around Stonehenge. Despite the small changes made to the scheme, it will still cause irrevocable damage to a… Continue reading
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Could King’s Cross grand approach be an inspiration for a remade Euston?
This isn’t Euston station. That’s too much of a mess to be worth showing in a photograph. But plans are afoot for big improvements up there, and King’s Cross, just down the road (seen here in early 2017, should be the inspiration. The wonder at King’s Cross is the space. There is no cluttering structure, just a… Continue reading →
After the Beatles, will Elphie be the new sound of Hamburg?
Why the Elbphilharmonie, on the banks of the river Elbe in Hamburg, cost ten times the original figure, and took six years longer to build than the first estimate, is likely to matter less and less after its formal opening on January 11th, 2017. The venue is as imposing and spectacular as most new performance centres seem to… Continue reading →
Hull’s great New Year as UK’s City of Culture 2017
Hull is about to celebrate its biggest New Year ever. At midnight it becomes the UK City of Culture, an accolade it will hold throughout 2017. Its opening event (Jan 1-7), Made in Hull, is a celebration of the city, in pictures on buildings, on a trail where the streets speak and buildings tell stories. Staged across the… Continue reading →
That Planet Earth sequence of baby turtles: who is really to blame?
The social media storm over the baby turtles in the last episode of the BBC’s outstanding Planet Earth series, narrated by David Attenborough, did not really nail the culprit. It was the emotional talking point in the programme on the interaction between man and wildlife. Baby turtles, newly hatched on a beach in Barbados, instead of making for… Continue reading →
Could private cash boost new Oxford-Cambridge Varsity Line?
Delays in completing East-West Rail, linking Cambridge to Oxford, are holding up the development of a new British Silicon Valley, slowing the growth of research and development facilities in life sciences and artificial intelligence both in the two cities and the villages and towns between them. There its no direct rail link between the two places, and the road connection is diabolical. —– Most… Continue reading →