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Oct 11, 2018

The Meaning of Black History: A Personal View

The above excerpt is from Miles Davis’s autobiography ‘Miles’. Just before the recounting of this episode Davis, who was a consummate professional, veritable musical scholar and a composer well versed in European musical tradition and theory, describes Charles Mingus as a genius, an epithet hitherto only used for the legendary…

Charlie Parker

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The Meaning of ‘Black’ History: A Personal View
The Meaning of ‘Black’ History: A Personal View
Charlie Parker

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Oct 11, 2017

Bladerunner 2049 and the slow death of modern culture…

I was so looking forward to this film. Although it had always been on my radar, I first watched the original (director’s cut) in the mid-nineties while I was in my early twenties having bought it because it was going cheap in HMV. I found it totally enthralling, gripping and…

Film

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Bladerunner 2049 and the slow death of modern culture…
Bladerunner 2049 and the slow death of modern culture…
Film

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Dec 27, 2016

Those Hamza Yusuf Responses: Trouble in Paradise

First we have to give props to Mehdi Hasan for asking this question. Many a time I have wondered as a ‘black’ person, where is the empathy for ‘the struggle’ from our Muslim brothers and sisters? Here in the UK, the reality TV show ‘Muslims Like Us’ lifted the lid-in…

Islam

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Islam

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Nov 29, 2015

The Thrill of The Chase

I remember the first time I came across the word ‘iconoclastic’. It was used in an article about Miles Davis, specifically in connection…

Architecture

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The Thrill of The Chase
The Thrill of The Chase
Architecture

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Jan 23, 2015

American Sniper: Heterotopia & Foucault’s Mirror.

When I first heard about the upcoming film ‘American Sniper’ directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Bradley Cooper, I knew straight away that I wanted to see it. My dad being a big fan, I was ‘brought-up’ on Eastwood films from a young age and I feel that I know…

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Nov 22, 2014

Inigo: British Genius, Latin Tongue

In Praise of his St Paul’s at Covent Garden The place I want to talk about is made of stone, a material that is everywhere in central London, and in every form; hewn, slivered, restrained, reconstituted, a valuable material devalued by ubiquity and constructional taxidermy, diced within an inch of…

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Inigo: British Genius, Latin Tongue
Inigo: British Genius, Latin Tongue

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Oct 19, 2014

Effie Gray….The Fairytale

Effie Gray….The Fairytale I have thus entitled this review, not to disparage a film that I admit I found as a Ruskin fan, a difficult watch, nor indeed to take issue with the version of events as recounted by Emma Thompson’s script, but rather (and I know how this will…

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Effie Gray….The Fairytale
Effie Gray….The Fairytale

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Sep 26, 2014

The Stephen Lawrence Centre

Beyond Utilitas Firmitas & Venustas The particulars of the building’s genesis make grim recollection. Stephen Lawrence was murdered in 1993, the year I took my GCSE’s and by which time I had pretty much decided that I was going to be an architect. That’s an awkward way to begin an…

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The Stephen Lawrence Centre
The Stephen Lawrence Centre

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Mar 3, 2014

‘Continuita’ Part 2: The means give rise to the ends

Refectory Building at Malling Abbey by Thomas Ford & Partners —

Architecture

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‘Continuita’ Part 2: The means give rise to the ends
‘Continuita’ Part 2: The means give rise to the ends
Architecture

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Feb 24, 2014

Status Symbol

A View on O’Donnell & Tuomey’s Saw Swee Hock Student Centre for The London School of Economics & Political Science — I used to work for the Capital Development branch of the London School of Economics Estates Department. In the office, a finely crafted wooden model of the yet to be built LSE Student Centre (as it was then to be known) took pride of place and at that scale, the…

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Status Symbol
Status Symbol

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