Ming Cheng RIBA | MRTPI

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Architect | Urbanist | Photographer
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Dissertation Tutor - The Bartlett, UCL
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A pre sunrise colourful sky over the Royal Mile yesterday

© Dave Coulson Photography

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@davoloid It is the exceptionalism view that he held that I find it difficult to stomach. ‘Do as I say, but not what I do.’
Also he didn’t even write the book! I will be so embarrassed if I go on these interviews, all guns blazing, knowing they are not my words.
@kerstinsailer your analysis is just as good, and I need to read the articles being quoted.
However, I have problems with this simplistic view of our built environment, saying ALL buildings need not to be boring.
The fact that a majority of our buildings in the cities are ordinary tells us everything we need to know.
Take Venice as an example, it has many amazing buildings, but a majority of them are ordinary buildings set within an extraordinary setting.

@ArchitectMing Brilliant! I've been waiting for that.
My own musings on this were not quite so detailed but of a similar nature:

https://sciences.social/@kerstinsailer/111177755224519181

https://sciences.social/@kerstinsailer/111177776065667240

Professor Kerstin Sailer (@[email protected])

@[email protected] @[email protected] I enjoyed listening to this too! Featured some research I greatly respect, for example the work of Colin Ellard: https://aeon.co/essays/why-boring-streets-make-pedestrians-stressed-and-unhappy However, there are also a few premises of the programme that I heartily disagree with. The fact that architects have ignored users for too long? Agreed. Thus, we need to focus on facades and exterior building aesthetics? Don't agree! Buildings need to work for regular users inside as much (even more?) as for those passing by

sciences.social

Why Thomas Heatherwick’s misguided ramblings are too dangerous to ignore. Thank you Olly Wainwright for pointing this out.
#architecture #urbandesign #urbanism

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/oct/27/thomas-heatherwick-humanise-vessel-hudson-yards?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

‘Dangerously misguided’: the glaring problem with Thomas Heatherwick’s architectural dreamworld

The designer’s new book Humanise spearheads a campaign excoriating decades of bad building. Has he forgotten his own expensive disasters? Our critic hasn’t

The Guardian

The answer to pedestrian safety is not (just) making car less dangerous. It is to fundamentally think how we should shape our built environment. This is asking the wrong question & having the right answer.
#urbandesign #urbanism #placemaking

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-66912123

How to make cars less dangerous for pedestrians

New rules and tech could make cars safer for vulnerable road users like pedestrians and cyclists.

BBC News
@timwaterman @kerstinsailer Good on you Tim. I may need to do the same as I don't want to engage on Twitter nor the incentive to use Thread due to their privacy policies & it is owned by FB.
Working on my next book this weekend, ten years of protest photography and a celebration of peaceful protest as an essential element of British cultural identity. It is one of the cornerstones of civil liberty in any progressive democracy.
Hi All. I haven’t unfollowed you! I changed instances and now need to re-follow everyone.
A reminder that Rishi Sunak spent his entire leadership campaign talking about how “committed” he was to tackling climate change in order to leave a better world behind him for his daughters.