Zaha Hadid called the Willis Building “a timeless classic" and its one of my favourites: a straight up Michael Hopkins / Norman Foster collaboration, although Hopkins drily claimed that Norm was preoccupied with his "bloody great big new glider" during its early design.
ALIEN was released 44 years ago today. One of the definitive science fiction/horror movies, its influence is still seen to this day. The behind-the-scenes story of how the film was made is a fascinating one...
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Developer proposals to convert a large part of the Grafton Centre to life sciences labs (green), retaining some retail space (pink), from a presentation given to councillors last week. https://t.co/Ta5XMGwQRn
ChatGPT is just a single star in the AI galaxy.
More than 1,000 new AI tools were released last week.
Here are 8 insane AI websites that will save you hours of work:
@GreaterCambs@camcitco Regent street needs resolving. What are the plans for this? Crowds of people arriving from the station squished onto slivers of pavements, a sight from the 1970’s glory years of road planning. This should be a single lane of traffic only.
A thousand times this
Deck-access housing is back and fast becoming the default typology for high-density low- and mid-rise apartments
https://t.co/x1p3IXCXyL
Anyone looking for some good live rugby in Dublin tomorrow to warm up for the big show:
Trinity U20s are playing the Japan U19s at College Park at 1pm.
Great venue for what should be an entertaining game! 🇯🇵
The BBC has decided not to broadcast an episode of David Attenborough’s flagship new series on British wildlife because of fears its themes of the destruction of nature would risk a backlash from Tory politicians and the rightwing press https://t.co/qY2ZwZS90q
BREAKING: The ECJ has ruled that the Belgian courts cannot refuse to extradite Catalan political leaders simply because they believe the Spanish Supreme Court does not have the jurisdiction to try the individuals.
HS2's Old Oak Common station, as currently specified, is capable of terminating around 3tph. It is being built that way as we speak.
Redesigning and rebuilding it to cope with even half of the proposed HS2 service will cost more than scrapping Euston.