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  • aka Calum Da Jazbo
    Late member
    • Nov 2010
    • 9173
    #1

    quaint innit

    just like freshly boiled eggs and soldiers all in a row

    The Tories' new design guide backs tiny, unliveable, backward-looking homes
    http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/architecture-design-blog/2015/apr/02/tories-new-housing-design-guide-backs-tiny-unliveable-homes
    The new advisory panel on contemporary housing favours quaint buildings with a cottagey feel – and their guide makes no mention of space standards that could make the homes of the future generous or liveable


    another Spiral between the pols the heir and the Builders!

    don't however try to swing a cat inside these lovely little dwellings ....

    housing design is a true scandal ....
    According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.
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  • MrGongGong
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 18357
    #2
    Poundbury is used as an example of best practice design.


    (let's hope he dies before his mum :peace dove:)

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    • Serial_Apologist
      Full Member
      • Dec 2010
      • 37841
      #3
      Were a symphony to be composed today in the ca. 1840 idiom of those Poundbury terraced houses in Calum's link, it would sound like Schumann's first, but feel a lot less roomy.

      I was all for the approach advocated by Betjeman to conserving good historical architecture rather than replacing it with monstrous architectural signifiers of the power of global capitalism to dwarf human scale; but please: design for and of its time, not some nostalgic hark-back to an idyllic age that never existed (except for the likes of Scruton and his fellow fore...lock tuggers!)

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