img(height="1" width="1" style="display:none" src="https://www.facebook.com/tr?id=2939831959404383&ev=PageView&noscript=1")

Stamp of approval

Words:
Jan-Carlos Kucharek
Credit: Graham Mathers

Crossrail’s so old hat: it’s just a copy of the Post Office’s 1927 Mail Rail that ran through central London to prevent your post getting caught up in the traffic jams. Twisted logic now meets the need with Royal Mail vans on impossible delivery schedules racing through the city but at least drivers can screech to a halt at the refurbished Mount Pleasant sorting office, clad in Technal’s Geode-MX Visible Grid system. They should enjoy the light and views while they can – the delivery yard behind it has been sold and is set to become a contentious high density housing scheme approved by mayor Boris Johnson last year. So that’s public land gone for a song for private profit – no more views and nowhere to park. If only it meant we’d get our letters faster.


 

Latest

Wednesday 13th November, 13:00-15:00

RIBA Autumn Economics Panel: Preparing for growth in 2025

Tuesday 1 October 2024,  12:00-13:30

Reinventing the Home webinar

Insulation installer SCIS Group has commissioned Peregrine Mears Architects to create two testbed affordable eco-homes in Hampshire, seeking to prove that such housing can still be well designed

Two testbed affordable eco-homes seek to prove such housing can be well designed

A photograph of the Garden of Fine Arts in Kyoto, Japan, puts Tadao Ando’s modernism through a postmodern lens

Greg Holmes puts Tadao Ando’s modernist Garden of Fine Arts in Kyoto through a postmodern lens

Hélène Binet's intense photographs of Nicholas Hawksmoor's London churches feature in a new exhibition at St Anne's Limehouse – just one of the approaches used to speed the restoration of the church in time for its tercentenary

Intense photographs by Hélène Binet of Hawksmoor churches speed restoration