Australian McMansions "gorging" energy, Detroit synonymous with failure and planning departments "thwart" progress.
"Despite the rosy economic undertones, the data collectively paint a worrying picture of a community of conspicuous consumers, eagerly buying lots of 'stuff' on tick that we don't need or even use, stashing it away in McMansions that gorge energy to heat and cool, and giving the families that live there the carbon footprint of a small African country."
The Age
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"For much of the United States, Detroit has become shorthand for failure - not just because of the dilapidation of the town's iconic industry, but because the entire metropolis seems like a dystopian disaster."
The New Republic
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"These were not controversial designs or proposals for 'overdevelopment' ... Working with the council planning department is impossible ... they thwart, delay and wear down applicants financially via endless studies and reports to prevent improvements and progress that does not fit the agenda."
The Age
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"In the new British Columbia, golf games with cabinet ministers count for more than design awards. And design competitions? What are those?"
The Hook
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"To pursue this divisive project … would seem highly insensitive, a statement of Israel's hegemony over the Palestinians, rather than any expression of 'tolerance'. All the architecture in the world cannot engender harmony on the basis of trampling over people’s rights and history. It is inflaming passions in an already combustible Middle East, and will push any peace accord further off the horizon."
World Architecture News
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