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Whilst there’s plenty I dislike about the Bullring shopping centre, I should point out that the linear mall that stretches across the site is actually quite successful. The proportions are good and the voids between floors make for good views across the different levels. From a couple of places you can also see parts of the Birmingham skyline through the glazed roof. ‘Wings Open Wide’, the photoblog of ‘but she’s a girl…’, has a picture to prove it.

As I pressed the send button on my ftp program for this entry, my ArchNewsNow e-mail landed simultaneously in my inbox. It points me to Whatever happened to Canadian understatement? by Hugh Pearman.

Will Alsop’s modelling department must get through a helluva lot of cocktail sticks.

Apart from the fact that documents like the one I’m about to quote are beginning to state the blindingly obvious, it’s also becoming necessary to talk them up their importance a little:

This appendix to the B_ S_ Housing Market Renewal Prospectus sets out the
strategic design strategies that will help deliver these objectives on the ground in the Pathfinder area and is part of a wider initiative by the Pathfinder to develop tools to enhance quality in design. This recognises the fundamental importance of design quality to housing market renewal, both as a driver and outcome for transformational change.

It gets better. On the following pages it mentions a map called The Structural Densification Pattern Diagram.

Sheesh.

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To the administrator of the server that broadcasts the contents of biroco.com. Please, will you fix Joel’s site soon? It’s been too long. He was on the verge of something beautiful and then the lights went out.

Joel, if you’re out there, give me an update.