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Owen Hatherley
, April 17th, 2021 08:57
Owen Hatherley interviews Jonathan Meades about his new book
Pedro and Ricky Come Again, a massive collection of his writing from 1988 to 2021 – and on why he’s no longer making television
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The last time I saw Jonathan Meades was in May 2018, in Le Corbusier’s Unité d’Habitation in Marseille. In a flat surrounded with books, paintings, pictures, and postcards he’d made himself, and as we got through several bottles of rosé, he said he wasn’t fit enough to come up to the building’s famously sculptural roof terrace, with its running track, its kindergarten, and its view across the city, the mountains and the Mediterranean. Although he wasn’t able to leave his flat at the time, he was still planning another film in his informal series for the BBC on the architecture of 20th century dictatorships –
VICTORIAN Glasgow produced two great architects who enjoyed international renown. One was Charles Rennie Mackintosh, but I suspect most Scots would be hard pressed to name Alexander Thomson as the other – except if you use his nickname. Far better known as Alexander “Greek” Thomson, his name has featured regularly in the press and broadcasting media over the decades, ususllu because someone wanted to knock down one of his creations. Born in this week of 1817, Thomson would become the pre-eminent Scottish architect of his day and his designs hugely influenced other architects, especially in Glasgow where a number of his works survive, though many more have perished, especially in the rush to modernise the city in the 1960s and 70s.
Edinburgh City Council recently announced plans to reconsider the future use of Thomas Hamilton’s Royal High School on Calton Hill, ending a deal with developers who had pledged in 2009 to find a sustainable purpose for the building. The High School, a masterpiece of the Scottish Greek Revival, has long lain empty; in 2015 plans to transform it into a luxury hotel were widely condemned by heritage groups and the public, and last year
the Scottish Government rejected a revised proposal.
The council’s decision has been welcomed by the Royal High School Preservation Trust, which since 2015 has campaigned for the building to become a new home for St Mary’s Music School. The trust is likely to make a bid to take over the site, while the hotel developers have yet to confirm whether they will submit a further proposal. In the April 2015 issue of Apollo, Gavin Stamp discussed the significance of Hamilton’s building and lamented that it might become a hotel; an adapted version
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