All articles by Ian Martin – Page 7
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Ian Martin
Jim Stirling’s Number One Turkey was never eighties enough. It would definitely be enhanced by sticking a big mullet on it
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Ian Martin
We wish to create a united front , defying the establishment squares who laugh at our round shapes and spindly legs!
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Ian Martin
It wasn’t long before the AI unit became self-aware and realised it was in charge of a building full of civil servants…
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Ian Martin
Activists dressed as millworkers will lobby to protect historic houses, having left their children at home dosed with laudanum
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Ian Martin
The Tamworth bid even allowed for overnight covers on the long-jump sandpit to stop cats shitting in it.
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Ian Martin
In order to save money, English Heritage bosses have stopped replacing retired workers with other retired workers
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Ian Martin
Asked what Le Corbusier is famous for, people seem to think it’s either stylish cookware or a saucy nightclub
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Ian Martin
How can I introduce ‘comfort and humour’ into my boutique hotel? Two layers of carpet and a clown on reception
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Ian Martin
At Tyburn Hill, capital punishment will be brought into the 21st century via a live feed from Texas
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Ian Martin
Civility in our publicly accessible privatised social spaces increases in line with the number of things banned
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Ian Martin
Culture, as Suzi Towel constantly reminds us, never sleeps — ‘or if it does, it’s only in little naps’
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Ian Martin
What does the modern city need? Grim, free-range cyclists elevated to the status of an urban aristocracy
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Ian Martin
I spent an hour or so sharpening pencils and reassigning them to their proper positions in the HB spectrum
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Ian Martin
Another chart shows the key marginal constituencies. Not just architects, but zookeepers, viola players and nuns
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Ian Martin
Strict vagrancy bylaws mean that poor Dorothy can’t stay overnight in the gated community of Munchkinland…
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Ian Martin
BOOK SPECIAL:10 spring titles for the discriminating reader to leave on the passenger seat
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Ian Martin
As we meander our way through coffee and biscuits, lunch, high tea, cocktails and dinner, the standard improves
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Ian Martin
My flood-plain houses are to be called in. Good luck retrieving the Alpine Bungalow model — it’s halfway to France by now