Letter from Valencia

"Architecture needs activity like a sentence needs a verb."

Mark 20 (due out next month) will see me writing the "Letter from Valencia" which is, in my very humble opinion, the least worst piece I have ever written on architecture. Yes, there's some St. Calatrava of course (you can't avoid it in Valencia) but there's plenty of other stuff too.

It also includes photos some of my millions of photos, unfortunately in black and white. So here are some colour ones as a taster.






Above is design student Adrián Pinilla and his dog who renew bikes in a small converted butcher's. Think "Pimp my ride", but on two wheels and pedal powered.

More to come on Sheffield here when I get time to write it up, including Castle Markets, Gleadless Valley and Park Hill. I'm also due a review of the new AR and Wired magazines.