Designers can not save the world by themselves, but they can help avert the climatic and social disasters that the world is facing, says Christine Murray. Designers, you know what your problem is? You just don’t know when to stop. You just have to design bloody everything. You get a piece of city to masterplan
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The Extinction Rebellion protest in London deleted the cars from Waterloo Bridge and with little effort created a public space that the Garden Bridge would never have been, says Christine Murray. London finally got its garden bridge last week. No designer was involved and it didn’t cost a penny of public money. It happened, briefly, when Extinction Rebellion shut down
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Architects can limit the environmental impact building has on our changing climate using their power as specifiers, they just need to take responsibility and do it, says Christine Murray. Architects are quick to bemoan their loss of status, sensing the growing lack of respect for the profession. The unveiling of £250m trinkets, such as Thomas Heatherwick’s stairs-to-nowhere The
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Campaigning for equality in architecture is at its peak, says Christine Murray, so why is the number of women in the profession still going down? It’s possible that all the talk about women in architecture is making things worse. I realise that’s a radical statement coming from me. Since founding the Women in Architecture survey and
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Now that millennial families are the fastest growing demographic in travel, airport design needs a radical shake-up, says Christine Murray. If flying economy is hell, flying as a family is worse, from coaxing your frightened toddler through the metal detector, to the anxiety of tethering your two-year-old in an adult seatbelt proven unsafe for kids.
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