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My favourite building: Cathy Sharp and Sandy Bell's pub
SANDY Bell’s is a pub of stories.
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Idea #11: Summarising committee decisions, for clarity
THIS is not really a Big Idea at all.
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Saturday column: Housing as civic architecture
THE Karl-Marx-Hof on Vienna’s Heiligenstädter Strasse is hard to miss.
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In the news, w/e May 15
In today’s edition:
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Your support is both appreciated and needed
IF you care about Edinburgh, you will hopefully have developed a deep affection for BuildEdinburgh, as a way of keeping in touch with what’s going on in…
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Saturday column: What a governing idea looks like, and what happens without one
AT the southern tip of Lyon, in eastern France - where the Rhône and the Saône rivers converge - a peninsula of railway sidings, warehouses and…
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In the news, w/e May 8
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Idea #10: In pursuit of high-density housing
THE concept of the ‘20-minute neighbourhood’ is all about providing important local amenities within a short distance from where people live.
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My favourite building: Grant Stott and the King's Theatre
I’VE had a connection with the King’s Theatre, which is currently being renovated, for many years; and not just because of the blast that I’ve had …
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Saturday column: The city that knows how to grow well
CROSSING the Steinerne Brücke in Regensburg - in Bavaria, Germany - the bridge that has carried people across the Danube for nearly nine centuries, the…
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In the news, w/e May 1
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