Adapt your vehicles (and boats) to your city, not your city to your vehicles 📍Utrecht

6 storeys facing 3 and no one panics. In fact this is some of the most expensive real estate in the world. Unless we want cities to stretch endlessly outwards we must allow them to grow upwards gently, even if that means transforming existing neighbourhoods from 2 storeys to 6.

NEW the GLA’s excellent 2024 housing report shows that the number of new homes approved in London has been declining for several quarters, and the number of projects approved has been declining since before 2016:

Art Deco is the last style which could fit in to traditional areas, like 1936 Cottesmore Court here. And when it was built it undoubtedly did point the way forward with its modern interiors and conveniences. After the war, good neighbourliness was no longer an aim for architects.

Always the same story: “The first building to win the RIBA Stirling Prize – Hodder Associates’ Centenary Building for the University of Salford – is to be demolished… its ageing infrastructure means it no longer meets modern standards” Only 29 yrs old! architectsjournal.co.uk/news/exclusive…

Exhausting yet rewarding day teaching Design Coding for Sustainable Development for the second time this year at Oxford Continuing Education alongside my createstreets colleague Ed. A great bunch of students, both in person and online. Hopefully back again next year!

Prestigious architecture prize winning buildings... demolished after just 29 years. Very 'green' and sustainable indeed! We can do better, starting by building things that are beautiful, out of long-lasting materials

Some say beauty is entirely subjective and yet it would be a very rare individual who would prefer the top over the bottom.