@TMOWilkinson @entschwindet@KTLloydT Different architects have different class positions, e.g. if they're employed, self employed, own practices etc. Where they end up is heavily influenced by the advantages or otherwise their class background gives them.
@TMOWilkinson Without these you're expected to subsidise making other people millions and getting a pittance yourself by e.g. teaching, adding to the oversupply of architects still further.
@TMOWilkinson After being employed for a few years, a lot of people set up on their own. How well these practices do depends far more on class and connections than anything else. Building a showcase project with an inheritance, getting projects from family friends, etc.
Biodiversity New Gain - a smug but pointless distraction from the biodiversity crisis being about farming and hunting - not development. Again, another consultant for that. More work for everyone and no more fee.
We're seeing a wave of practices closing, including well regarded ones.
Partly it's simply demand has dropped - interest rates and soaring build costs have killed a lot of projects. But there's another part to it as well... https://t.co/wmkhGR1WOq
Building Safety Act competencies - a huge rigmarole with not effect other than to hide the fact that it fire safety crisis is entirely the fault of the government, for ignoring warnings that the regs were unsafe
A woman called up because the planning portal was angrily demanding a Biodiversity Net Gain assessment... for her application for a new window on her flat.
Nothing combines token gestures, self-righteousness and incompetence quite like the English planning system.
The planning system is absolute masters at making pointless extra work for themselves. Like Bromley not having a duty planning service so you've got to submit an application because it's a secret how they interpret national legislation
Always interesting when the actual residents of 60s council housing resist notion from bien pensant housing association bosses that modernist housing has failed and automatically needs replacing https://t.co/yjpFzIjuJi
A cursory glance at the plan would show converting London's City Hall to housing is preposterous but what AI does best is make bullshit look vaguely plausible to people who don't know any better
All those modular firms went bust, obviously crypto, now the new fad the industry's rushing to like a primary school yoyo craze is AI. What's next? Maybe a medieval-style dancing plague would be fun? About as much use
In a way this is no better than clients wanting loads of work up front for free deserve, but it's depressing that so many are talking about this enshitification as a good thing
@BurchertMichael @skkoopman @SustainableTall Yeah looks like fake rammed earth with cement in it. Typical of architects wanting the look and the kudos of a sustainable material, but not caring about the real performance or wanting to be constrained by the material's properties