All articles by Ian Martin – Page 9
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I switch off the fan and watch the Me–Shell deflate around him. He looks like a petulant cartoon ghost
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Ian Martin
Meeting with Patina: some small talk, some synergy-mapping, then on to the main agenda item — making money
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Say what you like about Trousers, his enthusiasm is infectious. I find myself beaming at the drinks waiter
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Things are back to normal. Well before lunch, this week’s proposed world’s tallest building is announced
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Ian Martin
The Gourd would enhance Tamworth’s world-class city status (already 6.8 on the Pritzker Scale)
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Ian Martin
The Irish government’s latest campaign to preserve historic buildings: No Surrender to the PVC
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The Future Systems Selfridges is 'OK outside, like a giant slug, but inside it's only an old people's clothes shop'
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Ian Martin
Contemporary art is rubbish. Or has been incinerated. Or is in the Tate Modern. Or all three...
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Ian Martin
It's not long before there's a conflict of interest, as I'm not in the least bit interested in what he's saying
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We have to cut the session short, as it's karaoke night and we can't hear ourselves tank-think
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Ian Martin
Practitioners who continue to 'sport' bow ties and cravats put other team members at risk
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Ian Martin
Every architecture critic in the world is gathered. It's like the Teddy Bears' Picnic, with the same sewn-in expressions
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Ian Martin
From Selfridges to the Smirkin' Gherkin, Charles paved the way for the 'blob standard'
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Pizza to the rescue
“There should be enough hydrogen to float ‘analogue cities’ a mile above the originals”
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The celebrity racket
“I am summoned to the RIPBA. The president, Fred Trousers, has ‘writer’s skid’”