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Concrete has played a significant role in nuclear architecture, serving as the primary building material for structures related to nuclear disasters and power stations. In Hiroshima, the A-Bomb Dome, a concrete building that survived the atomic bomb, became a famous war memorial. Nuclear power stations also utilized concrete to encase reactors and store radioactive waste. The Chornobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine is known for its concrete structures, including the sarcophagus that covers the damaged reactor. Concrete has also been used in the construction of underground bunkers and the containment of radioactive waste. [Extracted from the article]

The article features the architect Herman Jessor and his contributions to socialist architecture. Jessor's work, such as Co‑operative Village, Rochdale Village, and Co‑op City in New York City, challenged traditional aesthetics and prioritized affordable housing with a strong emphasis on interior space quality. It mentions that despite facing challenges during various political and economic eras, Jessor's architectural legacy upends our understanding of modernism.

The annual Stirling Prize --awarded to a British architect for the best building project of the year was established in 1996, but had never been won by a council housing [...]

On Roads: a Hidden History Joe Moran Profile, 288pp, £14.99 'The English motorway system is beautiful and strange,' sang Black Box Recorder. This is a controversial proposition. Many would question [...]

Almost 100 years ago, on 20 February 1909, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's 'The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism' was published. Thanks to family connections, he managed to get it on the [...]

A thousand metres high, built into the peak of a mountain in northern Bohemia, the Jested telecommunications tower is an unnerving place. At first it seems a utopian space with [...]

The article offers information about the German political economist and its impact on perspective towards architectural labour. It describes the Karl Marx writings, his ideology on society, the economy, and exploitation. It discusses various his works including "The Communist Manifesto," books Aaron Bastani's Fully Automated Luxury Communism.

The only party previously investigated by the EHRC was the British National Party (BNP), although Margaret Hodge, a Labour MP, has said she faced "much much" more anti-Semitism in the Labour Party than when she was campaigning against the BNP in her Barking constituency. If most Labour MPs believe that Corbyn is unfit to be leader of the Labour Party, he is, presumably, also unfit to be the leader of the country. But Labour MPs, and especially members of the shadow cabinet - collectively responsible for Labour's stance - seem to have had a decency bypass. So, following the inevitable thumping victory for Boris Johnson on 12 December, followed by Brexit, the first thing I want is for Jeremy Corbyn to resign as leader of the Labour Party, something he signally failed to do following the party's humiliating defeat in 2017 at the hands of the most incompetent and divided Conservative government in living memory. [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on the prospective reversing of Brexit. It includes information on attitude of politician David Cameron and mentions a letter written by prime minister of Great Britain Theresa May to the president of European Council Donald Tusk. It also discusses the prospective impact of reversing of Brexit on fixing climate change and achieving world leadership.

My Name Is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic Charles Saatchi Phaidon, 160pp, [pounds sterling]5.95 "How sweet of you," trills Charles Saatchi, "to think that advertising copy is written [...]

In 1934, J B Priestley published a travel book called English Journey. In the next decade it was so widely read as to become one of those semi-mythical books that [...]

!Viva South America! A Journey Through a Restless Continent Oliver Balch Faber & Faber, 416pp, £14.99 In 1947, George Orwell published an apocalyptic essay entitled 'Towards European Unity'. Reiterating Rosa [...]

Chaplin: the Tramp's Odyssey Simon Louvish Faber & Faber, 432pp,£25 You wouldn't know it from walking around London, but Charles Chaplin was easily the most famous Englishman of the 20th [...]

Marching to the Fault Line: the 1984 Miners' Strike and the Death of Industrial Britain Francis Beckett and David Henke Constable, 420pp, £18.99 There are many reasons why the miners' [...]

Red Star Over Russia: a Visual History of the Soviet Union from 1917 to the Death of Stalin David King Tate Publishing, 352pp, £25 David King is, rather quietly, a [...]

When architects unite around a cause, it is usually to save a building from ignominious demolition. When the listed structure in question, however, is the Finsbury Health Centre, even its [...]

Otto Neurath: the Language of the Global Polis Nader Vossoughian Netherlands Architecture Institute, 176pp, £37.50 Few outside the fields of philosophy or graphic design remember the name Otto Neurath. This [...]

Naked Airport: a Cultural History of the World's Most Revolutionary Structure Alastair Gordon University of Chicago Press, 320pp, £9 Politics at the Airport Edited by Mark B Salter University of [...]

What exactly was 'totalitarianism'? Purporting to describe regimes that exercised total control over their citizenry, with a seamless apparatus of surveillance and mass conformity, the term was originally coined by [...]

One of the most famous of the Oblique Strategies--the set of cards developed by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt for use 'when a dilemma occurs in a working situation'--states 'Honour [...]

Sergey Prokofiev: Diaries (1915-1922)--Behind the Mask Edited by Anthony Phillips Faber & Faber, 784pp, £30 Unfair as it might be, Russian composers and artists of the 20th century seem to [...]

Poe: a Life Cut Short Peter Ackroyd Chatto & Windus, 170pp, £15.99 Of late, Peter Ackroyd has seemingly been immersed in the darkened corners of the capital, whether in his [...]

The article discusses the absurd architectural urban planning of Edinburgh city, Scotland. The various redevelopment projects at various sites in Edinburgh and the flaws in the architecture are also mentioned. The article also presents several photographs of the buildings including the parliament building, toll cross, and Port of Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Walls: Travels Along the Barricades Marcello Di Cintio Union Books, 288pp, [pounds sterling]14.99 In Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, there is a small display of Wall fragments. Next to this are panels [...]

The article previews two art exhibitions to be held at the Tate Modern gallery in England in 2018, namely the "Red Star over Russia: A Revolution in Visual Culture, 1905-1955," through February 18; and the "Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Not Everyone Will Be Taken Into the Future" through January 28.

1989: Bob Dylan Didn't Have This to Sing About Joshua Clover University of California Press, 198pp, [pounds sterling]14.95 "Hegel, Joyce, Fukuyama, Jesus Jones: so goes culture's declension." This is the [...]

Ground Control: Fear and Happiness in the 21st-century City Anna Minton Penguin, 24opp, £9.99 What we have here is the first serious account since the crash of what happened to [...]

Bad Vibes: Britpop and My Part in its Downfall Luke Haines Heinemann, 425pp, £12.99 Of all the confidence tricks and vainglorious fantasies that Britain has indulged in since 1979, the [...]

The Liberal Defence of Murder Richard Seymour Verso, 358pp, £16.99 Richard Seymour is a writer better known, through one of those pseudonyms that throw employers off the scent of those [...]

Everything Is Connected Daniel Barenboim Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 224pp, £16.99 This collection of interviews, articles and essays by the veteran musician is superficially a rather random selection. There are curt, [...]

Derelict London Paul Talling Random House, 224pp, £9.99 For a place really to count as a great city, someone has to have fantasised about its destruction at least once. Be [...]

The Shell Guides were a series of motorists' handbooks to the British landscape that ran until the 1980s, and were edited first by John Betjeman and then by the painter [...]

Images of Change: an Archaeology of England's Contemporary Landscape Sefryn Penrose and contributors English Heritage with the support of Atkins Heritage, 200pp, £17.99 To become 'part of the heritage' is [...]

The article focuses on the common housing crisis faced by major cities in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Britain, exploring the historical approaches to housing in these countries and the potential for shared solutions within their political traditions. It highlights the challenges of housing insecurity, rising costs, and homelessness in cities like Montreal, Auckland, and Melbourne, while examining past non-market housing initiatives that could inspire contemporary solutions.

Stein is a qualified planner, whereas Rolnik, An early example of these, Rolnik finds, was the housing policy brought Housing supply does not necessarily drive down overall prices'. And housing poverty - as Rolnik notes, Britain, Scandinavia and Eastern. [Extracted from the article]

A literary criticism of the book "Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe", by poet and writer Kapka Kassabova, is presented. It examines the border of Iron curtain, also as close to a conventional travel in the historical region of Thrace, the history of the Ottoman Empire's decline with Greece, and independence of Bulgaria.

The article focuses on the wave of problematic gentrification activities in London, England. It offers details of several experimental adaptive reuse projects which was dominated in the south part of the area, which involve taking old buildings and reusing them. It also factors that motivate the sharp break from how things were done in the past years particularly the deep embarrassment of the working class part and present are also mentioned.

The article offers information on the Houses of the People initiated by the Belgian Workers' Party at the end of 19th century and the elements of socialism and exquisite design in their architecture. Topics discussed include the People's House, designed by Ferdinand Dierkens as a combined co-operative department store; the Maison du Peuple in Brussels, which became a centre for the Socialist International; and the Western European socialism.