Pompous architects created "legacy" of poor designs, sustainability likened to teenage sex and NT walkway an "abortion".
"Traditionally, this is how the better architects thought of themselves. As a result they refused to dirty their hands with commercial work, while housing post-Thatcher was left to the design office of the volume house builders. 'Creative' firms concentrated on public buildings or universities, where budgets were generous and the architect was king. This has resulted in a legacy of poorly designed offices from the eighties boom, and a new housing stock that fails to meet the population's needs."
BD Online
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"Sustainability is like teenage sex. Everybody says they're doing it, very few people actually are doing it. Those that are doing it are doing it badly … I don't subscribe to the idea that you can demolish a perfectly good house to put up a four-bedroom six-star house, add a solar array and a few other 'green gadgets' and call it sustainable."
Treehugger
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"It looks like a child with long legs and the knickers are too short. I called it an embarrassment; now I'd call it an abortion."
NT News
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"On the other hand, if MMPI is adamant about putting the medical mart north of Mall C, Clevelanders would have to realize that in addition to losing a view, the city would lose a piece of its history, and of its soul. That would be a high price indeed."
Cleveland.com
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