Apart from the whole football fiasco, today was pretty useless on the work front. Somehow it was one of those days where all my team, including me, had left vital brain cells tucked up in bed. Plus it was a ridiculously warm day, like August in England, so we all felt kinda drowsy and hot and not particularly like exerting ourselves up on our roof. So, we made silly mistakes, spent ages correcting them, and so forth. It was the kind of day when we should have all given up at about 11am and gone swimming in the Black Warrior river.
A couple of mini rants
This campaign to stop architects working on prison designs (via Design Observer ) seems rather inconsistent to me. OK, so prison might not work very well and for sure there are too many people locked up. But I would bet a lot of money that the kind of architects that would sign up to this boycott have never been asked to design a prison in their lives, and I am sure there will be no shortage of people willing to sign off drawings for new prisons, given that I can't see clients starting to boycott architects who design prisons. Hell, there are probably architects who only design prisons. Surely we should be actually looking for better prison designs. Will Alsop has, I have seen, being working on precisely that, with prisoners themselves. Isn't this a more intelligent and clever way to turn the prison paradigm around into something positive, using the power of good design to make an environment that allows prisoners to see some hope, experience some creativity and be stimulated ...
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