Over a quarter of London’s high-rise residential buildings with dangerous cladding are yet to have remediation work completed, more than six years after the Grenfell Tower fire. Over a quarter of ...
Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. “How do you think I can adapt myself to these modern surroundings?” asks an elderly woman in Stephen Willats’ ...
The residents of a state-of-the-art tower block succumb to a collective breakdown in Ben Wheatley’s ingenious adaptation of the JG Ballard novel In the 1970s, people called high-rise buildings slums ...
Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In JG Ballard’s 1975 novel High-Rise, residents of an upmarket tower block enjoy swimming pools and black-tie ...