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Ian Martin Column
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Re-realming can be overwhelming
14-Jun-2013
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A cloudmapped happening is on the way
7-Jun-2013
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Building on our opportunistic past
31-May-2013
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Vulgarchitecture Today
24-May-2013
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Obituary: T Dan Hooker, blues Modernist pioneer
21-May-2013
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My new critical stream of thought
13-May-2013
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Redesigning buildings from the inside out
2-May-2013
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Truism, the new nothing-newism
29-Apr-2013
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The furniture’s bright, the furniture’s orange…
19-Apr-2013
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If it ain’t quaint, don’t fix it
12-Apr-2013
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Understating the obvious
1-Apr-2013
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A questionable endeavour
22-Mar-2013
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The space-time continuum continuum
15-Mar-2013
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Lost in transmution
8-Mar-2013
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A period of transition
28-Feb-2013
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The space bubble pops
21-Feb-2013
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Plan Nine From Outsourced Space
14-Feb-2013
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Designing a multiple-choice me
7-Feb-2013
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Architecture’s big collective sigh
31-Jan-2013
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Piracy shared is piracy doubled
24-Jan-2013
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Twisting again, an unsure restart, glowing newts
17-Jan-2013
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When posh comes to shove
10-Jan-2013
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Beastly seasonal greetings
20-Dec-2012
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Dreaming of a life beyond carbon monoxide
13-Dec-2012
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The ventilation system is the message
6-Dec-2012
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Windhampton – a breath of fresh air
29-Nov-2012
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Dysgustopia, Intersectional Banality, and other bundlings…
22-Nov-2012
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Enabling a new kind of streetlife for the super-rich
15-Nov-2012
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The deserving and the undeserving moderately well-off
8-Nov-2012
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Theoretical barchitecture has its day
1-Nov-2012
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Getting on the right side of the North-South Theoretical Divide
25-Oct-2012
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The punctuated space race has only just begun
18-Oct-2012
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An interconnected world of cultural sausages
11-Oct-2012
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Rebuilding democracy, one pedimented portal at a time
4-Oct-2012
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Thinking beyond pop-uption to metarchitecture, and then beyond that…
27-Sep-2012
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A ring road for aeroplanes and a farewell to the bees
13-Sep-2012
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Reinvigorating the countryside with exciting new dreams
6-Sep-2012
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A round-up of this month’s new books about icons
30-Aug-2012
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A warm welcome to everyone but the critics
16-Aug-2012
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The life and death of the community hub
2-Aug-2012
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A performing dog decides Britain doesn’t have talent
26-Jul-2012
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Design for your friends, redesign for your friends’ friends
19-Jul-2012
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Everyone discounts, in large amounts
12-Jul-2012
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Up in the air and gone with the wind
5-Jul-2012
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Observing the space limit, sending out the right signals
28-Jun-2012
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As one era draws to a close, the same era begins all over again
21-Jun-2012
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Thinking outside the hub, conceptualising a new club
14-Jun-2012
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An encounter with a high streetist, and a bespoke mansion in the style of Dave
7-Jun-2012
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I reach out to the international merging community, with limited success
31-May-2012
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The infinite possibilities of Metropolis 3000 and the importance of harvesting ‘sunfall’
24-May-2012
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The name of the game may have changed, but it’s still musical chairs for space-parcellists
17-May-2012
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An ambitious plan to twin Tamworth and Los Angeles is put to the test
10-May-2012
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Airbrushing people from the landscapes of the past to create a retro-chic version of the future
3-May-2012
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I ghost the comeback of HRH The Phantom Menace, and experience a brand new Shardenfreude
26-Apr-2012
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A journey into epic cyberspace, and the branding of a hipster skyscraper
19-Apr-2012
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The struggle to reclaim public space in the interests of corporate freedom
5-Apr-2012
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Recalibrating the Olympic legacy, recalculating the Ally Palacy
29-Mar-2012
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Known core givens, unknown core givens and an imaginary conversation
22-Mar-2012
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How heavy is your urban landscape? Also, what gender is it?
15-Mar-2012
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Maintaining urban form means having to keep up appearances
8-Mar-2012
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A new age dawns with the advent of the Royal Institute for the Pop-Uption of British Architects
1-Mar-2012
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The life, times and misdemeanours of Augustus Pugin, in the style of fossilised music hall
23-Feb-2012
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The importance of having a conscience, and the obligation to keep it properly landscaped
16-Feb-2012
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How the transformative power of art can turn a northern wilderness into a dessert
9-Feb-2012
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An outsider’s view of the royal re-boot, and a tentative proposal for an atheist cathedral
2-Feb-2012
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A list of most righteous grievances, and an artful remodelling of hearts and minds
26-Jan-2012
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A bad case of trapped wind mars my towering urban masterpiece
19-Jan-2012
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A pop-up bubble bursts, a death foretold in blue ironwork, and a grumpy app
12-Jan-2012
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Seasonal greetings from some key WOMEN of Epic Space, for a bloody change
15-Dec-2011
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A bold plan by a ‘metarchitect’ to map the world cloaks a much more sinister agenda
8-Dec-2011
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A moral dilemma, and an encounter with a philanderophist
1-Dec-2011
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Curating the past, hating the present, and berating the future
24-Nov-2011
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Getting the country back on its feet, and the profession back on its pedestal
17-Nov-2011
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Assorted mosques, and a luxury boutique world-class access space
10-Nov-2011
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Getting a brand new brand, and trying to identify a new identity
3-Nov-2011
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Forget the built environment, let’s shape a Brutalist protest movement
27-Oct-2011
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How I very nearly moved myself to tears with my own genius
20-Oct-2011
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Putting the ‘temporary’ into ‘contemporary’ while ignoring the ‘con’
13-Oct-2011
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Exciting rebrands on the way for anarchism and sustainability
6-Oct-2011
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The new place space race, and my five-point plan for shrill recovery
29-Sep-2011
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What now will go before the 'Mo'?
22-Sep-2011
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How innovative spelling could save a fortune in heating bills
15-Sep-2011
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Molly Bismuth and the funking-up of British architecture
8-Sep-2011
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Seeking strong voice for profession, rich baritone preferred
1-Sep-2011
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After the looting, Broken Britain clears away the debris – and the architecture
18-Aug-2011
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An exciting opportunity to rebuild our entire moral infrastructure with localism
4-Aug-2011
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The next best thing to the next big nexus thing
28-Jul-2011
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A new cultural theory for everyone, and everyone for themselves
21-Jul-2011
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The demise of a publishing giant, the resurrection of a mahoganised pillock
14-Jul-2011
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We cannot escape the past, or the extra-heavy molecules that defined it
12-Jul-2011
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A celebration of wabbeda wabbeda tish-tish blap ga-dap dap fuggeda fuggeda epic space
30-Jun-2011
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A Creative Industrial Revolution, historic buildings as benefits cheats, and the Expulsory Purchase Order
23-Jun-2011
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The BBC signs off, Mercia rebuilds, architecture goes pop
16-Jun-2011
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Public subsidy for privatised excellence – oh, what a Big Clever Society we are turning into
9-Jun-2011
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Life imitating art is a lot harder than it looks
2-Jun-2011
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How to turn boring pylons into a fabulous architectural narrative
26-May-2011
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The world of conservation is a small one, even for homeless bees
19-May-2011
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The architecture of terror, and the engineering of responsibility
12-May-2011
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Beating the recession is all about restructuring and decorporation
5-May-2011
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One small blob for starters, one giant leap for Mankind in due course
28-Apr-2011
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Accentuating the vernacular, eliminating the publicly accountable, latching on to the hortus conclusus
14-Apr-2011
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Searching for architectural meaning and salvation in a dogless world
7-Apr-2011
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Two sides to the Localism debate, not counting the very luxurious inside
31-Mar-2011
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Lunch, subterfuge, special glasses and the tyranny of a multi-dimensional world
24-Mar-2011
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Launching the Poundbury Roadshow, and sharing the Olympic legacy with a rebranded London
17-Mar-2011
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A question for green architects – how much do your occupants weigh?
10-Mar-2011
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Negotiating architectural jargon is much quicker if you take the upcycle path
3-Mar-2011
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From Tripoli to St Petersburg, design-trodden people cry out for Autopoiesis
24-Feb-2011
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From Tripoli to St Petersburg, design-trodden people cry out for Autopoiesis
24-Feb-2011
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Reclaiming our public conveniences from the Hipster Terror
17-Feb-2011
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Rerationalisation and memeweaving: The challenges for post-smoking Britain
10-Feb-2011
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Merging nine cities into one? That’s what I call Big Society/New Mercia
3-Feb-2011
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Striving for the greatness of the past in the participle of the present
28-Jan-2011
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What ARE Moral Qualms anyway? Fairtrade travel sickness pills, I think
20-Jan-2011
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Social retro-engineering with a neo-peri-peri-Classical twist
13-Jan-2011
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Ian Martin's New Year Resolutions
16-Dec-2010
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Flying a notional flag for the world’s most hated whistleblower
9-Dec-2010
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Towards a Novelty Architecture, with Novelty Vision and Novelty Regeneration
2-Dec-2010
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Q: What would Vitruvius do? A: Work out the Latin for ‘social capital’
25-Nov-2010
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Ian Martin: A new London superhub, a good design ‘vibes harvester’ and a housebuilding Thunderball
18-Nov-2010
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Twelve centuries later, Destiny calls at last for the plucky New Republic of Mercia
11-Nov-2010
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Ian Martin: My alternative to alternative energy
4-Nov-2010
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Can Magic Arborealism overcome the Architecture of Absence?
28-Oct-2010
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Architecture schools, museums, iconic lumps of Birmingham – everything’s popping up roses
21-Oct-2010
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If I could turn back the hands of time, I’d never let the bastard stay
15-Oct-2010
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Architecture’s finding new partners, and dancing to a strictly Latin beat
7-Oct-2010
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When butch comes to shove, it’s time to change your style, man
30-Sep-2010
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Ian Martin: Yes we can value engineering, but engineering values is much more profitable...
23-Sep-2010
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Ian Martin: 'This is our future heritage we are shrilly talking about'
16-Sep-2010
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Designing a blameless world – in beauty, in honesty and in legacy
14-Sep-2010
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Ian Martin is shocked and appalled
2-Sep-2010
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Is it possible that TV eugenics could one day develop a MasterSpace?
26-Aug-2010
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Ian Martin. ‘Remaining true to urban principles’ is no match for our ‘Mend A City’ initiative
12-Aug-2010
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Ten per cent less is ten per cent more for Architecture’s Big Society
6-Aug-2010
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A journey into deep epic space with the Masters of the Quangoverse
29-Jul-2010
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Farewell to a jazz architecture legend, hello to a mighty hangover
13-Jul-2010
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A marvellous, magical tour through London’s architectural back passages
24-Jun-2010
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Architecture and Education in a scramble for Gove’s ‘yummy money’
17-Jun-2010
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A middlebrow Middle East, and a medieval future for Middle England.
10-Jun-2010
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Rebranding Scotland for people who don’t really like Scotland that much
3-Jun-2010
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Encounters with Cocky, Toddler and the Hon. Aeneas Upmother-Brown
27-May-2010
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Hey there Georgian Girls – adding value to our heritage by charging for it
20-May-2010
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It’s time for architects to roll up their sleeves, and their trouser legs
13-May-2010
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A new political mindset in epic space: heaven knows we’re miserabilist now
6-May-2010
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My thrilling dream journey with Claude, the Globitectübercelebrauteur
30-Apr-2010
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Why architecture on the internet is for ‘Men Only’…
21-Apr-2010
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Election appeals to the architects of Great and/or Broken Britain
21-Apr-2010
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Redefining our attitudes to the past with a ‘slightly underground’ railway
16-Apr-2010
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My anarchist friends have very fragmented views about architecture
25-Mar-2010
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Charade or facade, it doesn’t matter as long as you have the front
11-Mar-2010
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Yet another attempt to engage with young people and their stupid haircuts
4-Mar-2010
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Exploring the idea of ‘authenticated space’ in a pop-up Thinking Room
25-Feb-2010
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London 2012: vision delivery, social rendering and inclusive narrativism
25-Feb-2010
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Keeping it nice and short is the height of good manners
18-Feb-2010
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The sky is apparently not the limit for conservationists
11-Feb-2010
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Reshaping our world one app at a time with the Etch-a-Space
4-Feb-2010
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Bright lights, big city, affordable luxury and Sting’s Flying Circus
28-Jan-2010
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All those years of 'special advice' - it's like talking to a brick wall
21-Jan-2010
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2010: 20 years of stuffed lions, epic space-filling and very long lunches
13-Jan-2010
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Looking forward to 2010 with some friends and acquaintances
17-Dec-2009
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A sounding board for what sounding boards ought to look like
26-Nov-2009
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Round, like a circle in a spiral, like the windmills of your mind…
19-Nov-2009
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Advancing civil architecture, one compound noun at a time
12-Nov-2009
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It's Memetrope 2, Hashtag Cloud 1 in the five-a-zeitgeist Theory League first leg playoff
9-Nov-2009
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The Olympics sculpture should show Sebastian Coe astride a grotesque winged beetle
29-Oct-2009
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Ian Martin. The Great Civil War of Epic Space is now a theoretical certainty
21-Oct-2009
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Two pods are better than one, whether it's Stonehenge or a local 'hubbubble'
16-Oct-2009
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Deconstructing the Tory conference, one bleating meaningless platitude at a time
13-Oct-2009
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Late 6th-century celebrity chefs as seen through Channel Four's Whatifoscope
5-Oct-2009
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SX Girl leads the Vegetable Liberation Front into battle over living walls
24-Sep-2009
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Ian Martin. Magical brutalism, modern sausages and two very happy Royals
16-Sep-2009
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Optimism for the future at last - from Her Majesty the Queen, and Beansy
10-Sep-2009
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Ian Martin. A big mistake: one man, one dozy dog and a dessicated follower of fashion
27-Aug-2009
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Thinking myself into a corner, then painting my way out of retirement
17-Aug-2009
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Dragging the BBC from a world of sticky-back plastic into where it's @
30-Jul-2009
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One region under a groove: how to revitalise the North East
24-Jul-2009
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Lowdown, not so sweet
16-Jul-2009
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Tell me when we’ll pull the plug, tell me quango, quango, quango...
9-Jul-2009
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Charles and Richard - the return match
2-Jul-2009
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A right royal punch-up
1-Jul-2009
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Prepare for Tamworth: future capital of England
18-Jun-2009
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Quiz time with Ian Martin
11-Jun-2009
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Should the RIPBA be reduced to a Twitter feed?
4-Jun-2009
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My Olympic pitch in Sir Alan Sugar's fantasy bollocking suite
14-May-2009
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Landscape Architecture RIP – it’s time for some Magic Arborealism
7-May-2009
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Preserving the ruins of our heritage, reviving the ruins of our high streets
23-Apr-2009
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Ask not what the private sector can do for you...
16-Apr-2009
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Men of Architecture - How Sexist Are You? Take Ian Martin's survey
27-Mar-2009
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I have seen the future and it’s Stand-Up Architecture
26-Mar-2009
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Frozen music, melting verse. One is bad, the other’s a wind-up
19-Mar-2009
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A week in the south of France, drinking for new work
12-Mar-2009
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Your work may be shameless, but never, ever nameless...
5-Mar-2009
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Talking buildings, synchronised panic, and a newer gender
26-Feb-2009
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I can take a joke, as long as it's about someone else...
5-Feb-2009
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Here's a tip: get clients to pay you a service charge
29-Jan-2009
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Getting to know the new wave of green Tory architects
22-Jan-2009
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A creative liberal's response to the Middle East situation
15-Jan-2009
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Christmas messages from some of my so-called friends
18-Dec-2008
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Ian Martin's 2008 Architecture News Quiz
16-Dec-2008
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How dare the Ethics Constabulary call my scheme ‘pure evil’?
11-Dec-2008
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It’s simpler to imagine new people instead of new buildings
4-Dec-2008
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The rise of iTecture; the fall of Auto-Modernism; Darcy in love
19-Nov-2008
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How to spin trends and influence people
13-Nov-2008
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A new world of egology, futurology and Liverpology
6-Nov-2008
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How I won first prize in the London quadrant lottery
4-Nov-2008
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Wall Street redesigned with a 'Tamla Motown' transparency
24-Oct-2008
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Brickwalling a way through the crisis, with louder architecture
1-Oct-2008
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Manchester's sinking gasbags, London's floating aerodrome
26-Sep-2008
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That crashing sound is your derivative workload collapsing
18-Sep-2008
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One Olympic world, one Titanic dream, one 'legacy offsetting' scam
20-Aug-2008
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It's renewable, local and versatile. Hard air can reshape our world
30-Jul-2008
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Globalisation is the new civilisation, but with much nicer hotels
22-Jul-2008
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I'd rather destroy Finsbury Health Centre than pimp it out
22-Jul-2008
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Towards a new, inclusive Epic Space Communion
2-Jul-2008
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How Amy's Essex treehouse became a renewable trailblazer
25-Jun-2008
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A week of Corbusian Skillsets, dogs and breakfasts
20-Jun-2008
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Rethinking London as a molecular clump of sad pretension
11-Jun-2008
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How a giant nickel-plated python has made us all think harder
6-Jun-2008
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Celebrating the terrible importance of architecture and pudding
23-May-2008
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Ian Martin: Quick, call the convergency services. There's been an accident.
15-May-2008
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Top 10...Facebook groups
7-May-2008
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Top 10...Client Complaints
30-Apr-2008
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A mysterious cartel. A secret society. A new ethical conspiracy...
24-Apr-2008
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Top 10...London smells
24-Apr-2008
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Ian Martin. A mysterious cartel. A secret society.
23-Apr-2008
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Top 10...Architectural jellies
16-Apr-2008
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On wikitecture, petrified existentialism and a barking-mad icon
11-Apr-2008
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Top 10...Eco-Towns
9-Apr-2008
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Top 10...Richard Rogers' Lordly gripes
1-Apr-2008
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The curious incident of the dog and the Bedford Square Lovepouch
28-Mar-2008
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Top 10...Items on Frank Gehry's 'To Do' List
27-Mar-2008
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Tesco versus Unesco. Who will win the battle to take Stonehenge?
11-Mar-2008
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Top 10...gay spaces
5-Mar-2008
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Top 10...pencils
28-Feb-2008
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Top 10...Designer toilets
19-Feb-2008
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Some thing has found us, and bitten the head off St Paul's...
7-Feb-2008
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Top 10: Angel of the South Ideas
6-Feb-2008
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Top 10...HATS FOR ARCHITECTS
31-Jan-2008
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Q: Why is China like a compulsive gambler? A: It has Tibet
23-Jan-2008
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TOP 10...GREEN STATUS SYMBOLS
23-Jan-2008
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Modernism inquest verdict: death by auto-erotic asphyxiation
16-Jan-2008
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Top 10....NEOLOGISMS
15-Jan-2008
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