This still-popular catchphrase, nailing the British preoccupation with World War II, comes from the 1975 sitcom Fawlty Towers. In a key episode, the eccentric manager of the titular crumbling ...

Norman Foster has always treated technology as a form of expression. As one of the pioneers of high-tech architecture (along with his friend and colleague Richard Rogers), his buildings celebrate ...

He melded his country’s history of engineering and industrial design with a modern sensibility to help shape the face of 21st-century Britain. By Clay Risen Nicholas Grimshaw, a British architect who ...

Like Midas in the ancient myth, they turn everything they touch to gold, those two magic words, high technology. What began as a term describing a new generation of technologies has become a catchword ...