“We should stop designing buildings which are over-contextualised in terms of keeping their style quiet, but which stand out in their own right … There has been no end of planning and tweaking of the finished design to ensure that what is being built is complementary to the nearby buildings.”
Liverpool Daily Post
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“With such a market for skills, you would expect every man and his dog to be getting in on the act. But when recruitment firm Macallan placed an advert for a nuclear programme manager in a newspaper earlier this year, just one person applied — and even he wasn’t qualified.”
Building.co.uk
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“What exactly this means to his politics is anyone’s guess. But when Obama mentioned he would have liked to have been an architect, it made a difference to his campaign … So could Moussavi be a conservative modernist in both his architectural influences and his politics?”
Building Design
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“With one hand government waves a flag which says it aspires to a ‘near-zero-carbon’ built environment by 2050, and with the other it throws away one of the few levers it has to signal a serious shift in policy.”
Architects’ Journal
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"I think [starchitect is] a name that is actually degrading to the vast majority of people it is applied to. And it really is a kind of political term that for certain clients is important because they use star architects. My hope is that through the current complexity that title will exit discretely and disappear.”
CNN
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