The staggering Populararchitecture Super Tower, designed to house 100,000 Londoners. Wow.

(Via this Guardian article about the Burj Dubai and other skyscrapers.)

I went to the opening lecture of the New New Town symposium at Rich Mix last night. It was given by Lars Larup on the topic of his unregulated adopted home, Houston, and it was absolutely fascinating ( Read more... )

Decent parks? Decent behaviour?: the link between the quality of parks and user behaviour

Preventing anti-social behaviour in public spaces

Secured By Design

Interesting follow up to this post about dead space here.

I call ghostroad my photojournal but it is a bit more specialised than that. I also don't use it as much as I would like and given this it seems a bit silly to have it as a seperate journal, especially as I write about the built environment here as well.

Poll Dead Space

Last week saw the announcement that the site of the abandoned Odeon cinema in Bradford would be redeveloped after standing derelict for six years. This, of course, comes on the back of the masterplan for Bradford designed by Will Alsop (more), the man who wants to bring Tuscany to Yorkshire ( Read more... )

Via MetaFilter a fascinating article on Urban Modernism in London by Owen Hatherley, who blogs at The Measures Taken. The most recent entry there is an article on Yevgeny Zamyatin's We.

Also, architect Jeremy Till on democracy and participation.

Since I'm doing links here are a pair of crackers from BoingBoing: knitted nautiloids and human hair ( Read more... )

The Airspace exhibition:London's skyline is about to be radically transformed. Over the next few years, with the support of the mayor, a series of tall buildings - not only in the City, but also Southwark, Lambeth, Deptford and Tottenham - will change it for ever. But what will we end up with? A collection of popular towers like the Gherkin, or an ( Read more... )

I went to the launch event for CABE's The Cost Of Bad Design campaign the other night. The panel consisted of Dr Richard Simmons, Bob White and Sunand Prasad. Just beforehand there were a pair of brief talks: White gave a caustic disection of the many faults with Euston Road while Prasad attacked the "callousness" of hospital architecture and a ( Read more... )

Guardian article about Textile Voices: A Century Of Mill Life published by the Bradford Heritage Recording Unit.

The Wool Exchange, 1935:


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Opposite sides of the junction outside Dalston Sainsbury's:


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