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August 15, 2022

Crystal Palace Park Café

Chris Dyson RIBA RIAS FRSA: Architect The picture I have chosen is of a building which we completed shortly before the pandemic kicked in. The..
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August 15, 2022

‘I came across Mr Murphy of an evening at Q10’

Gerard O’Brien: Chartered Landscape Architect/Senior Design Officer, Architecture & Design Scotland Drawing is an important part of my professional and personal life. I have been..
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August 15, 2022

Albert Bridge, London

Louisa Schmolke: Architect This bench is only a five-minute walk from my desk, which makes for some chilled lunchtime sketching on the Chelsea Embankment. I like..
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August 15, 2022

Untitled

Paul Stallan: Architect. I have been painting and collaging similar shapes and forms for the past 25 years. When I look back at my work,..
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August 15, 2022

SOUNDING OFF: Fertile Ground: The Unknown future of Town Centres

As places set about assessing the impact of COVID on their town centres and high streets, Vicky Payne suggests that we need to accept that..
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August 15, 2022

REVIEW: Belfast Congress – Cities Overcoming Challenges

The Academy of Urbanism’s first in-person Congress for two years took place in Belfast in June. Shane Quinn reviews an event that came at a..
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June 9, 2022

Say but little and say it well

Following a trip to Edinburgh our roving architecture critic C. Gull delivers a characteristically grumpy assessment of some recent developments in the city. Prince’s Street..
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June 9, 2022

THE URBAN IDIOT: Biodiversity Net Gain

Those of you who are regular readers of the Urban Idiot will recall that this is a column about how good intentions can go wrong...
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June 9, 2022

Who Owns England?

The unasked question that affects so much of what we do as urbanists is who owns England? Nicholas Falk reviews Guy Shrubsole’s important book, subtitled..
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June 9, 2022

Lincoln City

Rita Brar: Strategic Planner Having lived in and experienced the beauties of both historic Cambridge, where my grandfather spent his life after emigrating from North..
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June 9, 2022

The National Mall, Washington, DC

Joel Mills, AoU My office is three blocks away from the National Mall. I have had a relationship with this grand gathering space throughout my..
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June 9, 2022

Hillsborough Stadium, Sheffield.

Simon Allford: RIBA President, and founder partner AHMM Architects I am an architect, born to an architect father.  I grew up with him, my mother..
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June 9, 2022

Gibellina Vecchia, Italy

Giulia Vallone: Senior Architect, Cork City Council With every return home to Sicily, there are places I visit that never cease to replenish my creative..
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June 9, 2022

A Million Miles Away

Angela Brady: Architect. I painted this for UK Specialist Hospitals. It comprises 1m x 1m panels and was designed for a double height atrium, where..
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June 9, 2022

Amberd House, Armenia.

John Orrell AoU: Chartered architect. Founding Director, DLA Design. This design for a self-sufficient house draws on the Armenian vernacular; carving into cliff faces and..
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