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November 8, 2022

THE URBAN IDIOT: Architects and Social Housing

Why is it that best intensions and high ideals often end badly in the built environment? Revisiting on of his early columns, that only ever..
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November 8, 2022

Something the Matter with Glasgow

On a sunny day in Glasgow C. Gull finds little to be grumpy about on a visit to the new Burrell Collection but the same..
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Two Urbanists Explore Placemaking Week

The final week of September saw the town of Pontevedra in Spain come alive with Placemaking Week Europe, billed as ‘Europe’s largest placemaking festival’. Shane..
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November 8, 2022

Lawn Road Flats, Belsize Park, London, NW3

Alistair Barr RIBA, AoU: Architect and Tutor at Anglia Ruskin University These flats are a pioneering project of 1934 designed by an engineer with no..
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November 8, 2022

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Wallace Erabu: Architectural Assistant After completing my master’s degree in architecture at the Arts University of Bournemouth in 2020, I engaged in pro-bono architectural consultancy..
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Trinity College, Cambridge

Sumita Singha OBE RIBA: Architect The place that changed the course of my life was Trinity College, Cambridge. After doing well in my architecture studies..
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Bamber & Brown, Birk Crag, Harrogate

Pippa Brown: Proprietor How it all started… Living in the Northern Spa town of Harrogate, I own and run the converted horse box coffee bar..
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Nethermains, Ayrshire, Scotland

Dave Watson: Trade Unionist I was born in Liverpool, although most of my life has been spent in Scotland, where I was the Head of..
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Cooper-King Distillery, York

Chris Jaume & Abbie Nielsen: Founders I am from Hastings but my family connections with Yorkshire go back a long way – to the 11th..
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November 8, 2022

Mildrake Cottage, Harrogate

Camilla Cousins: Teacher I graduated in Fine Art from York St. John University but being a teacher and a mother, I don’t have much time..
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November 8, 2022

Geera, Cyprus

Andreas Markides: Chairman, Markides Associates I came to the UK more than 40 years ago, when I was sixteen. In that time, I have had..
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November 8, 2022

Elk Among the Trees

Carey Riall-Molter: Gallery Director I began my art education at Ashville College under the guidance of John Mullin then continued my art path with a..
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November 8, 2022

St Urban’s

John Bruce Mullin AoU: Teacher and Urbanist You will search in vain for St Urban’s on a map. You might identify it as being somewhere..
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Trilogy

Ellen Pickering: Cinematographer I studied Motion Graphics at Northumbria University and I have always visited art galleries to find inspiration for colour and lighting ideas..
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November 8, 2022

Lingering Legacies of Lockdown

Anna Liu: Tonkin Liu Architects An unexpected, lingering legacy of lockdown has been the rediscovery of drawing. Tonkin Liu’s weekly Drawing Club on Zoom converged..
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