All articles by Ian Martin – Page 9

  • Opinion

    Ian Martin

    2004-08-27T00:00:00Z

    I switch off the fan and watch the Me–Shell deflate around him. He looks like a petulant cartoon ghost

  • Opinion

    Ian Martin

    2004-08-13T00:00:00Z

    Meeting with Patina: some small talk, some synergy-mapping, then on to the main agenda item — making money

  • Opinion

    Ian Martin

    2004-08-06T00:00:00Z

    Say what you like about Trousers, his enthusiasm is infectious. I find myself beaming at the drinks waiter

  • Opinion

    Ian Martin

    2004-07-30T00:00:00Z

    Things are back to normal. Well before lunch, this week’s proposed world’s tallest building is announced

  • Opinion

    Ian Martin

    2004-07-23T00:00:00Z

    The Gourd would enhance Tamworth’s world-class city status (already 6.8 on the Pritzker Scale)

  • Opinion

    Ian Martin

    2004-07-16T00:00:00Z

    The Irish government’s latest campaign to preserve historic buildings: No Surrender to the PVC

  • Opinion

    Ian Martin

    2004-07-09T00:00:00Z

    There's a New Urbanism live/work village feel in the Occupied Territories

  • Opinion

    Ian Martin

    2004-07-02T00:00:00Z

    The Future Systems Selfridges is 'OK outside, like a giant slug, but inside it's only an old people's clothes shop'

  • Opinion

    Ian Martin

    2004-06-25T00:00:00Z

    Contemporary art is rubbish. Or has been incinerated. Or is in the Tate Modern. Or all three...

  • Opinion

    Ian Martin

    2004-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Tea arrives, with an exquisite selection of cakes and another bottle of brandy

  • Opinion

    Ian Martin

    2004-06-11T00:00:00Z

    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

  • Opinion

    Ian Martin

    2004-06-04T00:00:00Z

    We have to cut the session short, as it's karaoke night and we can't hear ourselves tank-think

  • Opinion

    Ian Martin

    2004-05-28T00:00:00Z

    Practitioners who continue to 'sport' bow ties and cravats put other team members at risk

  • Opinion

    Ian Martin

    2004-05-21T00:00:00Z

    Every architecture critic in the world is gathered. It's like the Teddy Bears' Picnic, with the same sewn-in expressions

  • Opinion

    Ian Martin

    2004-05-14T00:00:00Z

    If you can't stand the heat of genius, get out of the hyperbolic paraboloid

  • Opinion

    Ian Martin

    2004-05-07T00:00:00Z

    From Selfridges to the Smirkin' Gherkin, Charles paved the way for the 'blob standard'

  • Opinion

    Ian Martin

    2004-04-30T00:00:00Z

    Don't you point that gun at me, I'm an auteur

  • Opinion

    Pizza to the rescue

    2004-04-23T00:00:00Z

    “There should be enough hydrogen to float ‘analogue cities’ a mile above the originals”

  • Opinion

    The celebrity racket

    2004-04-16T00:00:00Z

    “I am summoned to the RIPBA. The president, Fred Trousers, has ‘writer’s skid’”

  • Opinion

    Ian Martin

    2004-04-08T00:00:00Z