From the monthly archives:

June 2009

Delicious Bookmarks for June 19th to June 27th

More than anything else, it is the support of other bloggers that has helped me in my blogging. One of these is Mel Starrs, specialist in sustainability and green buildings who blogs at Elemental. With her help I’ve started to save the links I want to share at De.licio.us and now (with consent) I’ve stolen [...]

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A Store full of Repentance and No Customers

Sky Masterson: “You are stuck with a store full of repentance and no customers. Without sinners to repent, repentance doesn’t exist. So you’re stuck with a store full of nothing. Do I give you a fair rundown?”
Captain Sarah Brown: “I wouldn’t know. I’ve never had a rundown.”
Guys ‘n’ Dolls
Two hot topics in the architectural press [...]

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What Good Architects Do No. 2: Make Connections

German Pavilion Barcelona

All good designers are great at joining things together.
A classic example is the work of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the German Pavilion at Barcelona (1929) rather disappointingly alluded to by Kevin McCloud in a recent episode of the UK TV programme Grand Designs.
I say disappointing because the essence of the German Pavilion to me [...]

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