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@RowanMoore my father had a story that as a teething toddler I had once bitten Peter Smithson, or it might have been Colin St John Wilson, either way I'm sure it was a gesture of great appreciation for the fine qualities of both these architects.

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@edwinheathcote Robert Burns, who he? Scotsman, poet, apostrophe ...

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@tomravenscroft Phipps’ Center For Sustainable Landscapes, USA
Pixel Building, Melbourne, Australia
CopenHill Power Plant
Sohrabji Godrej Green Business Centre, India
Eastgate Centre, Zimbabwe
French Polynesia Cultural Centre
International House, Australia
WISE building, Wales

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@Groupwork_arch He moved to France with his brother taking 9 frames. He found support from Henry IV of France, who granted him a patent. Lee began manufacture in Rouen and prospered until Henry's assassination in 1610, he was last heard of in 1614. Maybe the world wasn't ready...

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@Groupwork_arch reminiscent of a simple knitting stitch. In 1589, clergyman William Lee invented the first-ever knitting machine. Which Queen Elizabeth 1 declined to patent. She feared her subjects would be forced into poverty, a thought that delayed the industrial revolution by 170 years

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@hughpearman "At this time, Britain Remade is funded by grants from a range of organisations, including the European Climate Foundation and Quadrature Climate Foundation." Quite a rabbit hole, if you have a day or two to spare.

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@terrychristian @Lucy_Worsley Sir, you are confused that, truly, would be Oxford. Cambridge still does sack cloth and ashes, it's a thing, you know, scientists et al. Poets, and purple, go to the other place.

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@edwinheathcote Function or Product of 'like'?

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@brownliberite About three-quarters of East Anglian land is farmland, which is a little higher than the national average of 70%. However the EU has a higher percentage of tree cover than the UK. Perhaps we should grow more trees?

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@edwinheathcote 'or is he thinking of', in this context, I'm troubled by the use of 'thinking'. There's a lot of 'feeling' going on, which absolves quite a bit of the use of a brain.

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@RIBA looking good

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@Groupwork_arch Blackrock invests in clay bricks, perhaps you should talk to Clay Capital, they could invest in some black rock?

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@Groupwork_arch Number 6 : Where am I?
Number Two : In the village.
Number 6 : What do you want?
Number Two : Information.
Number 6 : Whose side are you on?
Number Two : That would be telling. We want information... information... information!

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@willjennings80 "took up shooting after a heated argument with his ex-wife" pretty much guarantees you'll be doing your shooting without a gun in the UK.

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@Groupwork_arch Apropos .... Unit 4+2 from 1965, photographed in the footings of the Barbican. Guitarist Ballard went on to form Argent, the rock band, not the property developer.

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@Groupwork_arch 'de-risk' is entirely context related, once your context changes your 'de-risk strategy' can drag you under. We are in the foothills of the biggest change to human society since the collapse of Bronze age civilisation. The Times They Are A-Changin'

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@Groupwork_arch According to the blurb "96.42% BREEAM Outstanding assessment, making it the most sustainable building in the UK, Earth Friendly Concrete a 50% saving in embodied carbon, construction waste not to exceed 7.5m2 of waste per 100m2 of GIA. Also, 2 beehives on the roof"

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@Groupwork_arch troubling for the many that want to save the planet but can't get any traction (that tribe is huge and multigenerational). Up to you to prove hearts of stone will win the day!

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@Groupwork_arch There's a paradigm at work here; forced, enforced & reinforced, by every part of the process. As the cost/efficiency/benefit/politics of making big buildings change, we will create a new paradigm. Just as digital replaced analogue, construction is due a similar re-vision