Araujo made a tackle and the whole stadium is clapping😅
This reminds me of this Jordi Cruyff’s interview. He had a culture shock when he newly came to England.
He said they celebrate tackles more than dribbles in English football.
You can blame architects all you want for bland architecture. But blaming the end user is even worse. I recently saw an architect argue that the reason our buildings are dull is because the people financing and using them determine what gets built. And I understand the constraint. Money matters. Clients matter. Regulations matter. Construction matters. But none of those things make the user responsible for the quality of the design.
The user is supposed to know what they need. They are supposed to know how they want to live, what they want to accomplish, what they like, what they dislike, and what constraints they have. They are not supposed to know how to turn all of those things into architecture. That’s your job. That’s what makes a profession like architecture valuable in the first place. If a client says, “I want this,” the architect’s job isn’t simply to reproduce the request. It is to understand the request deeply enough to produce something better than what the client could have imagined alone.
Design is fundamentally an exercise in resolving constraints. Finance is a constraint. Materials are a constraint. Climate is a constraint. Regulations are a constraint. Culture is a constraint. Accessibility is a constraint. The user’s preferences are constraints too. Great designers don’t complain that constraints exist. They learn how to work within them without losing the purpose of the thing they’re designing.
Of course, sometimes the constraints genuinely make better architecture difficult. A limited budget can force compromises. A developer can reject an ambitious proposal. Regulations can restrict what is possible. A client can insist on something objectively bad. You can say that. You can explain why the parameters make the work difficult. What you cannot do is transfer the responsibility for the final design to the person who hired you because they didn’t know how to design it themselves.
The same principle applies far beyond architecture. A founder doesn’t need to know UX. A patient doesn’t need to understand medical-device engineering. A customer doesn’t need to understand software architecture. A user shouldn’t have to become a designer before they can get a good product. The whole point of design is to take the complexity of the problem and carry it for them. If the user has to solve the design problem themselves, what exactly were we there to do?
Lagos State Government must as a matter of necessity declare state of emergency on:
1. Street beggars and urchins.
2. Environmental sanitation.
3. Excessive rent/price on properties.
Outside there is a jungle.
Welcome to Class.
Course Title: Tinubunomics 402 - Total Financial Autonomy of a Subnational - Lagos As A Case Study.
Topic - Fiscal Federalism aka How To Efficiently and Effectively Run A Government With No Money from Abuja.
Lecturer - Professor Emeritus Bola Tinubu.
The state is currently in a mess of a magnitude I have never experienced before.
Inasmuch as I’ve been a fan of the past administration of the state, I feel this one is indifferent.
That proactive touch is missing. Fingers crossed that the next administration gets it right.
Omo... The massive failure of LAWMA recorded under the Sanwoolu administration is a big negative to the administration. It's so sad. I went to Surulere yesterday and the sight was horrible... The next Governor of Lagos might spent his first 6mths clearing refuse 😭😭😭😭
Thermobaric bombs dropped on Gaza which create temperatures up to 3,000 Celsius and are supposed to be banned under international law were used to vaporise nearly 3,000 Palestinians. Vaporise. We're dealing with world-historical evil
A viral image is being shared online with claims that it shows the Kaabah’s Kiswah laid on the ground.
As Muslims, we have an amanah to verify before we speak or share.
After reviewing the photo internally with Haramain experts and comparing it with authenticated Kiswah references, our conclusion is clear.
The textile shown in this image showing the Kiswah does not match the real Kiswah.
Key issues we noted include a clear scale mismatch, missing expected outlining and contrast, border inconsistencies, and pattern and motif differences.
Please do not spread this image as verified evidence.
Allah guide us to truth and protect our tongues from speaking without knowledge
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