Robert Wakeham's Comments
Comment on: SHH wins go-ahead for black-fronted Mayfair home
I wonder why this locality was designated a Conservation Area? Variety might be preferable to total uniformity, but isn't an apparently black building here more than slightly incongruous, and arguably just representative of what might well turn out to be a short-lived fashion fad?
Comment on: Euston demolition plans dropped
11 new platforms, but without expanding to the west, and the probably irresistible pressure for over-station development - does this all add up to a multi-layered cavern that fails to learn the lessons of the past?
Comment on: Explosive RIAS report lifts lid on George Square debacle
The whole affair is all the more grubby when you realise that anyone walking around Glasgow city centre rapidly becomes aware that the fine Caithness flag paving in the pedestrianised streets isn't being cared for, and that in some streets the pavements are in such an appalling state that they're wheelchair aggressive and have clearly been neglected for decades. Pedestrians have been further abused in recent years by the arrival of large on-pavement sponsored information / advertising panels that in many places block more than half the pavement width, and create massive and dangerous obstructions to pedestrian visibility. In this context, resurfacing George Square is akin to Nero fiddling while Rome burns.
Comment on: The Wright stuff: Newlands School by Wright & Wright
Good to such architects who can design a new school, to tight budget, so very well. London's gain is Glasgow's loss - the architect comments 'with too many materials you get a fruit salad, you get Building Centre elevations', and the reviewer refers to 'Pseudo-modernismn. CABE-ism. The kind of buildings a wolf could blow down'. A classic example has recently appeared in Great Western Road, Glasgow - St Peter The Apostle High School, Kilbowie, Clydebank. I wonder what Isi Metzstein would've had to say about that confection?
Comment on: Sheffield’s Don Valley Stadium faces uncertain future
Emblematic of the state of Britain outside London.
Comment on: RMJM legal battle intensifies
Isn't it time RMJM's behaviour attracted the attention of ARB?
Comment on: Fragments and dreams: Downley House by Birds Portchmouth Russum
Ugh!
Comment on: Plan to save Preston bus station revealed
It'd make a good IKEA within the existing structure and without losing its character.
Comment on: Newt halts work on Ryder's £14m Durham police HQ
For a protected species, the Great Crested Newt seems to be remarkably widely distributed given the frequency with which it's found to be 'in the way of development'.
Comment on: City Garden Project dealt final blow as Aberdeen moots £20m alternative
If only the different factions in the city of Aberdeen (and Holyrood) could bury the hatchet and see their way to resurrecting the fine scheme by Brisac Gonzales, which would be an asset to all (and absolutely worthy of Sir Ian Wood's largesse)
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