Extracts

The Age of Spectacle: The Rise and Fall of Iconic Architecture

From New York and Beijing to Bilbao and Portsmouth, The Age of Spectacle examines how 21st century cities work and how architecture has become flashy, monumental and the ostentatious. 

‘It looks like an Easter egg to me.’

‘It doesn’t look anything like an Easter egg. It’s a glass bollock.’

Two men looking at London’s City Hall, overheard on the commuter train to Charing Cross Station, London

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