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My faith has been renewed. Peter Rich’s Interpretation Centre in Mapungubwe is ray of light amidst a gloomy haze of substance lacking, globally styled Architecture. The masterly conceived cultural centre is built on a site of great local, cultural and historical significance, knowledge that is both respected and celebrated by the scheme. For me, this […]
February 3, 2010
It seems to me that as a generation we harbour a huge portion of people that are working in ‘unskilled’ or unspecialised jobs. A great deal of this number are intelligent, sometimes highly educated, people. It leads me to think about Buckminster Fuller and his thoughts on specialization and how, as others have mentioned before, […]
January 21, 2010
For me, the trouble with Spotify/downloading music/We7 etc is the flicking. Everybody ‘knows’ loads of new bands and can stand in the pub and ask ‘have you heard of such and such?’ but you don’t really get to know the music this way. I’m sure most people can still remember teenage days, when you bought […]
January 15, 2010
We are all aware of the ever-increasing dominance of chain stores on our high streets, the ominously encroaching blandness. I recently went back to a town that for a long time I called home and there experienced the disappointment of seeing the rather harrowing sight of a familiar little independent shop having been replaced by […]
January 13, 2010
Over the past six months I have travelled what I am sure is a much trodden metaphorical path, from ‘I will never blog’ via, ‘blogging could be useful’, ‘to blog or not to blog’, ‘I could have blogged by now’, to here; blogging. I am a part one year out architecture student and I intend […]
Occasionally Architectural 
February 18, 2010
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