Grenfell Tower fire wouldn’t have happened “if it hadn’t been so ugly” says Roger Scruton

January 31, 2019 India Block 0
Roger Scruton talks at Central Saint Martins 

Roger Scruton, chair of the UK government’s Building Better Building Beautiful Commission, says that bad design was behind the Grenfell Tower fire that killed 72 people. Taking part in a debate about Beauty at Central Saint Martins on 24 January, the philosopher suggested that the recladding of Grenfell Tower, which contributed to the spread of the

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Casa Descuadra / P-M-A-A

January 31, 2019 Pilar Caballero 0

Berween party walls, as if it were an adjective; that’s what characterizes this intervention in an existing property, made possible by the stubbornness of a family who refused to sell to the highest bidder. They no longer live there; it’s now the dream home of a close friend.

Archways appear throughout a Barcelona penthouse by PMAA

January 31, 2019 Natasha Levy 0
Interiors of penthouse apartment designed by PMAA

Partitions punctuated with arched openings divide the living spaces inside this Barcelona apartment, which has been overhauled by architecture studio PMAA. Situated on the top floor of a residential building in Barcelona’s Raval neighbourhood, the penthouse apartment has been updated by locally-based PMAA to feature fresh white surfaces and a sequence of vaulted partitions. They

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