The Stirling Prize is called a "gaff", China's first eco city is an "unworkable urban eco-cliche" and the planning system gets panned, in today's news digest...
“The whole judging process is style or ideology biased and this is just a microcosm of that. It blows the gaff on the idea of the Stirling Prize being a fair assessment on what is a good building.”
BD Online
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“Dongtan, the city that was intended to be the ‘model for how to build sustainable cities worldwide’ should still provide a lesson for us all. Blindly praising its environmental credentials without recognising its squat, low-rise, parochial, carbon-fetishising, architecturally unappealing, unworkable urban eco-clichés, is a recipe for future disasters.”
Spiked Online
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“The LSC has been guilty of a very serious failure in its management of the program to refurbish and rebuild further education college buildings around the country. The council behaved recklessly by approving too many projects and allowing colleges’ expectations of financial support to outstrip what it could afford by nearly £2.7 billion”
The Architects’ Journal
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“One reason I think we in Charlotte aren't more precise about what we call our paved routes is that we have thoroughly debased terms that used to mean something. A true ‘boulevard’ would attract boulevardiers strolling between the cafes, and flaneurs (a person who strolls about idly, as along the boulevards). Now envision Independence Boulevard or Harris Boulevard. Ugh. If Billy Graham Parkway is a ‘parkway’ then I'm Miley Cyrus.”
Charlotte Observer
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“Unless this [an overhaul of the planning system] happens, we will continue to perpetuate the ridiculous state of affairs we have now where perfectly good infrastructure is mothballed or demolished because lack of affordability robs them of a community to serve, only to make new housing more expensive because it has to contribute to covering the cost of the new infrastructure required to replace what has been lost."
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