All articles by Ian Martin – Page 4
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NewsNews Junkie: 7 and 8 April
In this week's despatch...homeless hedgehogs, your new property millionaire neighbours, Marks Barfield's treetop promenade and Matthew Parris' horrified llamas.
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NewsNews Junkie: 31 March and 1 April
This week: the world's first hydroelectric house is restored, posh and scuzzy casinos are compared, and another of Prescott's Pathfinder schemes gets a spanking...
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News
Probe into Foster & Partners share move
Financial Services Regulator is also taking an interest in Foster's share deal, Daily Telegraph reports
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NewsNews Junkie: 24 and 25 March
Olympic knotweed. Self-build pensioners. The government's new traffic signals. Amphibious buses in Manchester. Fat budgerigars. And more. All in this week's despatch...
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NewsNews Junkie: 17 and 18 March
In this week's News Junkie... why Norman Foster prefers his own company, how Anglican churches are channelling porn, and what's in David Cameron's wheelie bin...
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NewsNews Junkie: 10 and 11 March
Prince Charles in a pub, seaside towns in decline and a demolition broadcast live on the web in Ian Martin's latest round-up of the weekend papers
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Opinion
Oh dear, what can the matter be?
Too white. Too male. Too middle class. Every year, the architectural profession stares in the mirror with self-loathing and decides to do something about it.
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News
News Junkie: 3 and 4 March
The News of the World discovers architecture, the latest musings from Stephen Bayley and Russian spymaps in Ian Martin's round-up of the weekend papers
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Opinion
New museums for the 21st century
Museum of Urban Poverty, Sao Paulo: Toyo Taverso’s glittering conscience-tweaker is located in a comparatively safe area of this vibrant megabigalopolis. It encompasses both the dark side and the fun side of poverty. Playing with notions of inside/outside and sophisticated/stupid, Taverso’s gallery plan traces the outline of a gun. The ...
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Opinion
A bridge between two separate worlds
Monday: Urgent call from Ruth Kelly. How can we transform Britain’s council estates through social mobility and private equity? I suggest we do the following: Redeploy troops from Iraq to encourage democracy, distribute free methadone and bicycles, get someone Australian in glasses to design “kinetic housing”, float the benefits system ...
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News Junkie: 17 and 18 February
The government is set to block Mangera Yvar’s £3 million east London supermosque, the Telegraph reported on Sunday. Find out what Ian Martin has to say on this story and the rest of the weekend's news in the first of his weekly dispatches.
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Features
The agony, but without the ecstasy
Q For years I have run an unsuccessful architectural practice. I feel the time has now come to try something a little more pretentious, but architecture’s the only thing I know.something@inside.meA Simply rebadge your practice as an architectural and communication design research laboratory, founded with the aim of understanding and ...
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NewsNews Junkie - Sunday 11/02/07
Last week’s announcement that Google had bought its fellow internet phenomenon YouTube for the small matter of $1.65bn (£880m) provoked a flurry of interest in the video-sharing website.
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Opinion
Ian Martin
The developers’ job is to hoodwink, not inspire, which makes them much more of a laugh than architects.
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Opinion
Ian Martin
Norman could be the wise leader at the back, pootling around in his titanium hoverchair
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Opinion
Ian Martin
You have to pound the Taj Mahal to bits while fending off Unesco drone-monkeys armed with machetes