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“‘Housing for dirty people’ is back and I welcome it”

March 29, 2023 Rory Olcayto 0

Deck-access housing has unfairly become a symbol for urban squalor in the UK, but a new wave of architects is demonstrating its merits, writes Rory Olcayto. As Miles Glendinning and Stefan Muthesius convincingly argue in Tower Block, their 1994 book on post-war housing, there “has probably never been another feature in UK public housing which

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“Cumbernauld’s fate presents Scotland with a fundamental choice”

March 22, 2022 Rory Olcayto 0
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Rather than demolishing Cumbernauld’s brutalist town centre, we should learn from Patrick Geddes and employ radical surgery to give the megastructure a new lease of life, writes Rory Olcayto. If you’ve seen Gregory’s Girl, you’ll know Cumbernauld has gentle, suburban charms. The romantic comedy dates from 1981, when the new town was still new. Landscape architect GP

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