JG Ballard's influence on pop was far-reaching: he inspired artists from Joy Division to the Sisters of Mercy to Radiohead – even Madonna, the title of whose 2001 song The Drowned World is taken from a Ballard novel. Manic Street Preachers' darkest ...
Jørn Utzon, who has died aged 90, never saw the Sydney Opera House completed. It was the building on which his architectural reputation is based, the project that made him famous, and which transformed the world's view not just of Sydney, but of ...
Manchester has seen numerous cycles of building and demolition. Photograph: Christopher Thomond Politicians love cranes. They need solutions to the problems that every city faces within the time frames of elections, and they think that they can doing it ...
Arts & entertainment: Deyan Sudjic asks if the city of the future will be a vision of hell or a force for civilised living? ...
Painting and sculpture still have the power to make people intemperately angry, as former Mayor outrage over Chris Ofili's distinctive ways with elephant dung and canvas vividly demonstrated not so long ago. But after a century or more of ...
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