“Inhabited bridges, as engravings of Old London Bridge show, are alluring structures, yet they have proven to be tricky, tacky and downright annoying things that serve primarily to slow traffic over them to little more than a snail's pace.”
Guardian
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“Brutalism was never just an architectural style. It was a political aesthetic, an attitude, a weapon - dedicated to the precept that nothing was too good for ordinary people. After decades of neglect, its buildings are now either "eyesores" or "icons", fine for the Barbican's stockbrokers but unacceptable for the people who were always its intended inhabitants.”
Guardian
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“The allure of an architectural voice in the wilderness duly turned the Barbican Hall into a Polemics-R-Us showroom whose only electrifying moment, greeted with cheering, came when Cameron Sinclair declared that to ask Zaha Hadid to speak on ethics in architecture would be like ‘expecting Robert Mugabe to talk about human rights.’”
Architects’ Journal
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“The biggest ideas in architecture, today, spring out from the science of the small Nanotechnology. Understood as the manipulation of matter at the molecular scale, nanotechnology promises to transform architecture in ways we can hardly imagine.”
Indian Express
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“This is something that is being worked on now, but if you look at the Olympic site and consider what the map will look like a couple of months after the games once all the temporary facilities have been taken out, there are going to be an awful lot of great big gaps in the site… this is really the big challenge now.”
Building Design
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