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Chaos theory outlines 'butterfly effect’ in which a tinychange in initial conditions creates vastly different outcome. Something similar, if a little less complex, is happening in urban design & highways
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Here’s an interesting 1961 @BBCArchive video in which some very level-headed South London school girls are not impressed with their new school & give the architect a deferentially tough time.
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On the left, London's new water fountains. Oh the right, a Victorian example. The collapse in quality is profound and goes far beyond design. We appear to have lost any
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With its riot of terracotta, the 1898 Russell Hotel in (of course) Russell Square could almost have been designed to irritate (indeed to help inspire) modernism. A clean machine to
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One of London's least known but most telling seventeenth century monuments is York Water Gate now rather sadly stranded below lawn-level in Thames Embankment Gardens. What is it doing there?
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