All articles by Ian Martin – Page 5

  • Opinion

    Ian Martin

    2007-01-12T00:00:00Z

    Personally, I intend to stay in the closet. Or ‘nano-live-space’ as the estate agents say

  • Opinion

    Obituaries

    2006-12-15T00:00:00Z

    His approach to transport planning merged the reality of heavy traffic with the dream world of psychogeography

  • Opinion

    Ian Martin

    2006-12-08T00:00:00Z

    Squeeze Commonwealth Institute into corner of bus station site, sell rest to Wetherspoons

  • Opinion

    The first item on the agenda is How Can We Make The Olympics More Sexually Explicit For Mr Murdoch?

    2006-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Monday. How to make the dreary Thames estuary a lively location for 120,000 new urbanists?

  • Opinion

    Ian Martin

    2006-11-17T00:00:00Z

    Entrepreneurs could be imported, housed in gentrified terraces and encouraged to breed. Remember to invoice Ruth Kelly

  • Opinion

    Emissions trading: can architects rise to the challenge?

    2006-11-03T00:00:00Z

    Yes. They can manage about two hours with a toilet break

  • Opinion

    Ian Martin

    2006-10-27T00:00:00Z

    My friend Tub Haagendas calls, and we put our heads together to design a second planet

  • Royal Preston Hospital
    Opinion

    Postcards from an accidental inpatient

    2006-10-20T00:00:00Z

    Architects, procurement managers and government ministers all say they’re committed to creating better hospitals. Any time you like, urges Ian Martin. Snapshots by Adam Turtle

  • Opinion

    Ian Martin

    2006-10-13T00:00:00Z

    Gone are the tables and black ties. The seats are in rows. The people are wider and there’s writing on their clothes

  • Ian Martin
    Opinion

    Ian Martin

    2006-08-25T00:00:00Z

  • Opinion

    Ian Martin

    2006-08-11T00:00:00Z

    There’s a clever centrefold featuring skyscrapers arranged like The Usual Suspects

  • Opinion

    Ian Martin

    2006-08-04T00:00:00Z

    I wanted to email Frank Gehry but pressed the wrong button and converted it into an exploding 3D masterpiece

  • Opinion

    Ian Martin

    2006-07-28T00:00:00Z

    There could be a case for regional design champions, each with an armed militia

  • Opinion

    Ian Martin

    2006-07-21T00:00:00Z

    The consensus is that Israel should create a level playing field in Lebanon by bombing more of it, twice if necessary

  • Opinion

    Ian Martin

    2006-07-14T00:00:00Z

    Norman Foster wishes us luck, and offers a discount rate if anyone wants a future city built

  • Opinion

    Ian Martin

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    I need a new ‘-opolis' to seem really smart, and apparently ‘supercalifragilisticexpilalipolis' has already been taken

  • Opinion

    Ian Martin

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    LAB 06: The prospect of a metrosexual mardi-gras has Darcy reaching for the smelling salts

  • Ian Martin
    Opinion

    Ian Martin

    2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

    I want something 'ard. And legacyable. Think on, I'll be back in an hour or so. I've got to sort out a diary entry..."

  • Ian Martin
    Opinion

    Ian Martin

    2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

    By placing publicly commissioned lumps of art at nodal points on the city's energy lines you can unblock the ‘urban chi'

  • Ian Martin
    Opinion

    Ian Martin

    2006-05-19T00:00:00Z

    The real secret in the Corb Papers is known only by a shadowy and ruthless cabal of modernists, possibly with a Latin name