Author Archives: David Grandorge

‘Smart’ phones are responsible for some rather disturbing intended and unintended consequences, writes David Grandorge

Apparata’s stripped-back but ‘empathetic and generous’ House for Artists collective housing settlement in Barking, east London, would make a pleasant home for anyone, writes David Grandorge

The model of a German cooling tower was part of a London Met project where students produced wooden models of industrial structures, writes David Grandorge

There is no waste in nature, yet we humans have become adept at producing it – in abundance, observes David Grandorge

David Grandorge travels to the Black Country for an encounter with transformed landscapes

Digital modelling might one day consign the physical model as a design tool to the same fate as photographic film

Since the 1950s the UK countryside has  been subjected to wholesale industrialisation. Those who govern us have big choices to make about how we use this land in the future, writes David Grandorge

Reaching into his photographic archive, David Grandorge reflects upon the skyline that was emblematic of New York at the zenith of its global commercial power

The Earth in its state of nature is a beautiful, self-regulating system, whose lessons we humans have yet to learn, writes David Grandorge

Nuclear power stations are one of the few forms of energy infrastructure that can provide us with a low-carbon source of power when the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine, writes David Grandorge