I write – a lot – about architecture, design, technology and my opinions about the history and politics of all three for my day job as deputy editor of Homes & Property at the Evening Standard, alongside freelance features and opinion for the Guardian and Evening Standard, Crafts, ICON and Phaidon.
Here are some of my favourite pieces:
Comment: 'Sadiq Khan's tax on paved gardens is a bulwark against toxic petro-masculinity'
'I have eccentric taste': How Real Housewives of Toronto's Ann Kaplan captured her own castle
Design Hotspot: Live like a designer in one of Hotel De L’Europe’s one-of-a-kind rooms
Buying London's Daniel Daggers: 'I sell London homes to royalty and the 1%'
Their Roman Empire: The Newt brings recreated 1st century AD garden to Chelsea Flower Show 2024
Phinda Forest Lodge: Close encounters of the furry kind in South Africa’s unique sand forest
'I always wanted the best': John Pawson takes minimalism to the max
Kevin McCloud: ‘Grand Designs is such an emotional journey – even I cry filming it’
‘We can save the world’: Cara Delevingne’s charity Earthed leads the urban growing revolution
Open Roads review: it has loads of heart - but this indie game is stuck in the past
Princess Peach: Showtime! review: finally Peach takes centre stage
Skull and Bones review: it’s a yo, ho, no and a bottle of rum for this pirate game
Primrose Hill: From glittering A-list hangout to battleground for public safety?
Women’s work: the action group re-mapping London based on the women who designed and built it
United in Design: inside architecture’s new unions
Like a beige, banal biscuit tin: why London’s new buildings all look the same
Fears of tough times ahead as the energy crisis hits UK makers
Boom! Everyone Joins In: meet the young designers rewriting the rules of Swedish design
Onions Have Layers: the coastal community revitalising itself with art and architecture
Tulip, Summit, Mound: can urban properties really be ‘experiences’?
The Spicy Present: how MSCHF reinvents itself every two weeks
It Has Pockets: an interview with the designer of urban survival brand Early Majority
The only way is up: how our roof extension led to planning permission for the whole street
Inside fitness influencer Grace Beverley’s super-luxe houseshare
Inside a singer-songwriter duo’s Seventies-inspired London home
Strictly trades in queer culture – so why hasn't it had a same-sex couple until now?
"Celebrating Pride Month feels unavoidably different" say queer designers
Designers are seriously worried the pandemic is reversing the move away from single-use plastics
Why are Britain’s new-builds all so ugly?
Outdoor urinal designers are offering solutions to the pandemic public toilet problem
Diversity in a society and in architecture must be defended
Architecture workers are being exploited during the pandemic
"It's not enough to ask designers to be sustainable" says Formafantasma
Ten horror films and television shows where the haunted house is the star
Rural Urban Framework builds tent-style community centre in Ulaanbaatar
Unbound Babes disguises vibrating sex toy as ring
"Hopeful moment" is emerging from Tbilisi's architectural chaos
Medellin Design Week champions original Colombian design
Greenery is often "sole legitimisation" for unsustainable buildings says Céline Baumann
Building Beyond Borders uses stone and earth to build Women's House Ouled Merzoug
London, New York, Paris and Milan give streets to cyclists and pedestrians
Rihanna's lingerie show set design is an architectural "mash up"
Recycled plastic turned into face shields and hands-free door handles to fight coronavirus
Extinction Rebellion uses modular boxes as protest architecture
Ten films with amazing architecture to stream during coronavirus self-isolation
Grenfell architect unaware of fire rules and cladding risk
Inquiry finds "compelling evidence" Grenfell Tower did not comply with building regulations
Six fashion brands making the industry more sustainable
Lapee female urinal designed to reduce festival loo queues
Six designs that protect your digital data
Kaiku turns fruit and vegetable waste into natural pigments
Whooshh Passage Portal uses AI to shoot fish through a tube over dams
Bio Iridescent Sequin made from trees responds to growing demand for greener fashion