“No one wants to trim costs, lay off staff, cancel dividend payments and the like but continuing on regardless is fast becoming unviable. They can’t bury their heads in the sand any longer”.
World Architecture News
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“It is such an amazing site, directly in front of the Three Graces, but the architects seem barely to have noticed. It is like letting a bad second-year student build next to St Peter’s. This is bad patronage by an ignorant council which thinks having jazzy architecture is putting the city on the map again.”
BD Online
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“Also designed by Levitt Bernstein, this is a restrained development of 151 units at the north-east side of Holly Street that tries to fuse modern European-style design with the vernacular of traditional East End housing. Architecturally, the Holly Street homes surrounding it is an uninspiring mix of brick buildings laid out in neatly proportioned grids.”
Building
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“The cultural life of Britain would be vastly improved if we could obliterate the word heritage from our vocabulary. I can't understand how it has taken root so deep in our language, like a poisonous weed growing on a gothic ruin, eating up imagination and curiosity.”
Guardian
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"They were left out of the location. It wasn't a place they could feel a sense of belonging. It was a place about anything but them. It didn't promote Scotland's creative industries. It was about someone else's personal selection of artifacts. It needs a total rethink and it has to put the people who are running businesses in the creative industries at the heart of it."
Sunday Herald
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