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Facing up, originally uploaded by eversion.

There’s something very satisfying about the way this building keeps facing you as you round the bend. Successfully enfronting the site I think Charles Moore would say.
update:
Yep, enfronting it is:

I should get this out of my system. It must be getting quite dull, all this relentless referencing to Charles Moore. [...]

I hinted at one the projects I’ve been working on in a recent post and followed it up with a presentation at Ecobuild. The full write up is on the new BSD blog and images available at Slideshare, but I should offer an excerpt and some further notes here.
Vision-lozells.org represents my first attempt to get [...]

The dwelling places of Europe have an air of inheritance, or cumulative possession—a hive occupied by generations of bees. In America, the houses seem privately ours, even when we have not built them up, in pine two-by-fours and four-by-eight-foot sheets of plywood, from a poured-concrete foundation. Houses are, as Newland Archer sensed, our fate. The [...]

Provided mostly as a supplement to the latest post by The Sesquipedalist, I’ve dug out some old cover images from AD magazine in the 70s.

Much better qualified to explain the history of architectural journalism than I, The Sesquipedalist sets the scene:
During the “book business model” of the ’70s, where the magazine almost completely eschewed advertising, [...]

I’ll be parachuting into the capital on Friday to take part in the first be2camp unconference. I’m really looking forward to being able to properly announce one of my latest projects: YouCanPlan Lozells.
A few weeks ago, Birmingham City Council put out an invitation to tender for an extremely innovative and ambitious proposal that would allow [...]

To Helvetica and Back – FontShop News
‘…But Helv isn’t always the right sans for the job. This week on the FontFeed we offer 13 alternatives to Helvetica…’ (via Dan Hill)
(tags: design fonts typography)

Cambridge Journals Online – arq: Architectural Research Quarterly
‘…arq acts as an international forum for practitioners and academics by publishing cutting-edge work covering all aspects of architectural endeavour…’ (logged because I just noticed the RSS feed for article titles)
(tags: architecture magazine pdf rss journal)

Submit Response » Separated At Birth – Hyundai + Gazprom
From the traffic jam I was stuck in at the start of the day, to my mobile, into Twitter, on to Jack, onto his blog, back to me in my RSS feed, on to my del.icio.us linklog, to my blog at the end of the day
(tags: [...]

Hello 2007. Hello new blog address: no2self.net
When you have a blog that’s named so as to remind you not write posts that are too self centred, using your own name as the URL is a little daft. After 3 years I finally got round to re-launching under a proper address.
The RSS feed will continue [...]

Hello 2007. Hello new blog address: no2self.net

When you have a blog that’s named so as to remind you not write posts that are too self centred, using your own name as the URL is a little daft.

After 3 years I finally got round to re-launching under a proper address. The RSS feed will continue to [...]