Opinion
“Who would defend the elevated urban motorway?”
“The authorised information available on this building could be published in a single tweet”
“Definitely not a bridge”
“You’re a design entrepreneur, not a designer”
“An object lesson for designers caught on the hamster wheel of producing interestingness”
“Postmodernism was typecast as soon as it made it out of the Italian magazines”
“Can designers really do what the public think they are capable of?”
“Was it too much to hope for first a woman and then a partnership?”
“The Garden Bridge is a magic bullet for a certain idea of the contemporary British city”
“Anything threatening to be a subculture is commodified before it can walk”
“The vast majority of the built environment is of an unspeakable ugliness”
“Even obsolescence is worthy of incredible expense”
“The car industry is on the verge of its biggest design opportunity ever”
“The most important design event in the world is one you’ve probably never heard of”
“Games that have withstood the fads of fashion and television should look like it”
“The places people are staking their lives on now aren’t architectural icons”
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“To tar all replica furniture companies with the same brush is neither fair nor accurate”
“More frightening than American Psycho”
“Copyists are eating away at the creativity of our industry”
“The project of education-via-marketisation has had ugly results”
“Koolhaas may think we’re past the time of manifestos, but that’s no reason to play dumb”
“The control room is a highly charged mythic space”
