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Pay as you save explained

Spring is here. Time to get over our post-Copenhagen hangovers and kick back into action. Ecobuild starts today and, more significantly we have the introduction of the Pay as You Save policy by the Government. I’ve only seen early new reports on this, such as in the Telegraph, so we’ll have to see the detail. [...]

Happy return for Sinclair

After what fellow blogger Mel Starrs described yesterday as “a funny old week” involving a range of heated discussions it was refreshing to hear from a man of action. Step forward then Cameron Sinclair, co-founder of Architecture for Humanity, who gave a lecture last night at the RSA. Sinclair’s work, which was described by RSA [...]

More Meades.. on housing design

More Jonathan Meades from his BBC 4 show Off Kilter on Scottish architecture. His words are fitting for the whole of the UK:
There is of course a bien-pensant constituency whose stupid knee-jerk reaction to modernism of the 60s and 70s is it can’t be any good so why not blow it up… and why not [...]