All articles by Ian Martin – Page 2
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OpinionTossing ideas about on urban morphology
Ian Martin reports from a conference ‘Be The Climate Change’, and looks at ways of surgically enhancing our metropolitan built environment.
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NewsNews Junkie: 06 and 07 October
This week’s objects of desire: synthetic trees, banana leaf and water-hyacinth coffins, and ’something barny oast housey but with quite a cool vibe’.
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OpinionDigging up some new relics of the past
Ian Martin is kept abreast of the latest archaeological finds
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NewsNews Junkie 22 and 23 September
Harrods might get a zoo. Will Alsop wants to eat his dinner straight off the table. Peter York's talking doorbells. The Virgin Mary now officially can't be seen up a tree in Surbiton. It's all going on...
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OpinionGetting the lowdown on oligarchitecture
Unpleasant clients are great – they pay handsomely and on time, enthuses Ian Martin
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NewsNews Junkie: 15 and 16 September
In this week's life-enhancing issue: upsizing your dwelling envelope, increasing your oxytocin, and finding 'paradise on Earth' at a turkey farm.
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OpinionTowards a carbon-intolerant architecture
Ian Martin presents a zero-carbon roundup of carbon
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NewsNews Junkie: 1 and 2 September
Essential truths revealed this week: posh people block supermarkets, old people block nightclubs, famous people alienate neighbours, rich drug-dealing people invest in urban regeneration.
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OpinionEgregious flowerings of steel and glass
Ian Martin harvests a bumper crop of ridiculous buildings with intriguing titles
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NewsNews Junkie: 25 and 26 August
In this week's specially-delayed, remit-extended, Bank Holiday-inclusive round up of UK newspaper articles about the built environment propped up with pointless sarcasm, more of the usual.
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OpinionWhat an energising, self-built community
Ian Martin judges a self-build teepee contest at the Camp for Climate Change at Heathrow.
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NewsNews Junkie: 18 and 19 August
In this week's ramshackle hippie village of flapping canvas and compostable journalism: DIY biofuel, the wilful stupidity of trees, Genetic Capitalism and why wind farms are bad for dolphins...
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NewsNews Junkie: 11 and 12 August
This week: John Redwood's plan for a mega-eco-city, 17 tequila sunrises a day in an orbiting space bar, and why practices should be run like the army.
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OpinionCampaign to prevent change of any kind
Ian Martin’s conservactionist friend Dusty Penhaligon runs into trouble for trying to relive the good old days of June 2007
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NewsNews Junkie: 4 and 5 August
In the news this week: the Association for Home Information Pack Providers, a 'builderer', the self-styled Lord Marcher of Trelleck, the Consulting Arborist Society, 'resomating funeral bosses' and the culture secretary's mum.
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NewsNews Junkie: 28 and 29 July
This week: the Tsar of St Partysburg who lives in the Versailles of Hampstead, Jeremy Clarkson's brilliant plan to conserve the countryside, and how architects can spend 'a bearable 23%' of their earnings...
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OpinionConfined by a design-community bug
Ian Martin fears a visit to an architectural launch party may be responsible for his mental illness
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NewsNews Junkie: 21 and 22 July
In this week's harvest of print chaff: Britain's burgeoning 'affair economy', darkness at the end of the Stonehenge tunnel, and the wise and wise of the tweehouse...
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OpinionSummer books 2007: a further selection
Ian Martin takes another trawl through some of this year’s less obvious beach reads
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NewsNews Junkie: 14 and 15 July
The world goes mad, again. China's caused a shortage of British wind turbines, London's on the isostatic rebound, and now we're all living in Billy Joel's uptown world. On a 'raft of flaws...'