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According to the media, today almost anyone can be a star. Appear in a daily soap opera; instant stardom. Read out the weather on...

Nearly every week there is yet another report on substandard building materials, or shonky workmanship on construction projects. This raises the question as to who...

By Architect Don Bunting   I recently attempted to reduce the amount of old information on my library shelves. As someone once said: your library should...

With 150 sq m seen as the bare minimum size and 200 sq m+ as much more typical, it’s no surprise that modern housing...

It’s been said that a good idea is one that can be encapsulated in 10 words or less. The challenge of delivering Building Information...

Is there an unwritten convention that large shopping centres have to be unattractive? I couldn’t name even one such centre that looks like anything...

  We are aware that memories fade as time goes by. And recent research has shown that a more significant issue is that people, particularly in...

Napoleon was talking about the tactics of warfare. However, the same can be said about amateur politicians putting the tactics of political expediency —...

By Architect Don Bunting   Lino is a common Latin name roughly meaning praise. Not sure how this morphed into linotype — a 90-character machine for making...

Public housing built in the UK in the 30 years from 1950 was a mix of two-storey terraces, maisonettes (2/2 storey units above each...