Dave Batey's Comments
Comment on: Capita Symonds reveals Uganda tower plans
Its a bit like the episode of 'How I Met Your Mother'... the one when the architect was the only one in the room who couldn't see that the shape of the skyscraper they had designed reminded them of something...
Comment on: Boris Johnson scoops RIBA honorary fellowship
Doesn't Michael Gove get one?
Comment on: Boris Johnson scoops RIBA honorary fellowship
What 'enormous contribution' has Boris Johnson made to architecture exactly?
Comment on: Ryder's 'white monolith' opens its doors in Grimsby
Does 'flagship' now just mean 'biggest'....
Comment on: Anger over Brady plans to demolish hospital
is it of any merit?
Comment on: Could Thames river park float to Singapore?
Sloopy seconds those Singaporean!
Comment on: 'Stop £150,000 student debt' say protesting Bartlett dons
"architecture students are likely to come out with £150,000 of debt." Perhaps a little sensationalist and far fetched. From the Bartlett? Who would have guessed it?
Comment on: Farrells to re-examine Vauxhall Cross gyratory
The entire area is fundamentally flawed, and while i applaud an effort to correct the skywalk idea is about at 21st century as the planet of the apes movies. The only way this will be resolved is if the three major land owners: CLS, Kylun and vauxhall towers agree to work together instead of engaging in this farcical game of "mine is the centrepiece"
Comment on: Carmody Groarke wins Windermere Steamboat Museum contest
A great shortlist of architects, but lets face it that list could have been written without the need for a 'two stage' competition, the other 108 practices were just wasting their time, the RIBA should go back to singale stage anonymous design competitions to give the rest of the profession a chance, we'd rather 'waste' time designing something than filling in endless PQQ forms, at least it rewarding and we would have some chance of getting shortlisted.
Comment on: BSF ‘made the schools estate worse’
So really the situation is only worse because the scheme was scrapped and our coalition government stopped investing in our schools...
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