“Maybe this can also ease the American housing crisis: Two brothers in Brazil are literally living on the outside of a building in Rio’s Old Center [pictured above]. Since May, twenty-seven-year-old Tiago Primo and his twenty-year-old brother Gabriel, have been sleeping, working and eating on the side of a building 33 feet up in the air for twelve hours every day.”
Archinect
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“The effects of this type of design are everywhere — streets with no sidewalks, sidewalks with no shade, pathways cluttered with telephone poles, utility boxes, and criss-crossed with access roads and garage driveways. Dozens of cities (including New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C.) have decided to put the "public" back in "the public right of way", reclaiming and redesigning this urban land to satisfy a greater number and type of uses.”
Planetizen
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“Our new M … would speak truthfully of us to those travellers who sailed beneath it towards our town. It would say this: Carpetbaggers Rejoice, you are entering a city of dupes and fools ruled by vain thieves who would impoverish their people on a whim. Make hay while the sun shines.”
The Age
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“Yes, we primarily draw electronically now. Yes, our several generations of active architects employ different media to think, to design, and to represent their ideas. Yes, our students and future architects still use hand drawing, but frequently as one tool in a kit that includes physical modeling and three-dimensional virtual manipulation. Yes, the architect’s world has changed. There should be no tears, only a glint at reality.”
Architectural Record
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“If RIBA and its judges want to stick two fingers up to the Prince of Wales and all his interfering ways, then they have two Richard Rogers' buildings to choose from this year, in the cancer hospice and winery. As for the inclusion of Liverpool One, I can only imagine this must be some kind of drunken joke.”
Guardian
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