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Design practice, town-builder, think tank. Master-planning, design codes, research, co-creating popular, beautiful, durable Gentle Density. @CreateStreetsFN
- This is a recently completed British train station. It is pathetic, value engineered to a level of comatose ugliness that dispirits & dulls the mind, dissuading passengers & degrading the trains that run through it. It is not civic or sociable architecture....
- Ever heard of Toulouse as a city centre whose improved street design is revolutionising local prosperity? It’s not normally lauded as a case study. But quality of the street design is staggering. The results are stunning. Literally no empty shops in town centre. How? A short 🧵
- 2,000 years ago a toddler stepped on this red clay tile drying in the sun of Roman Gaul ....
- This is the Piece Hall in Halifax, Yorkshire. It bares comparison with Piazza San Marco in Venice. It should be one of England’s most famous buildings. You should go.
- This is The Piece Hall in Halifax. It survives comparison with St Mark’s Square in Venice. It should be one of Europe’s most famous buildings. Lockdown is over. Please do visit it.
- This is a recently completed British train station. It is not civic or sociable architecture. It is antisocial. It says, “don’t come here”, “ don’t use me“, “why don’t you take the car?”……
- Anglo-Saxon map of London. Find places you know. Oddly compelling. Camberwelle. Brixges Stane. Padintune.
- On the left, London's new water fountains. Oh the right, a Victorian example. The collapse in quality is profound and goes far beyond design. We appear to have lost any sense of civic pride, to be unable to build for the future rather than for the next few weeks..... 😡☹️
