Posts on ‘June 1st, 2009’

If it’s not exceptional, it’s not an icon

The idea that ‘iconic architecture’ is now a dead duck, as a result of the credit crunch-prompted New Austerity, is wrong. It is, however, an interesting example of prediction by people who are desperate for their prediction to come true rather than confident that it will do. By definition they are not prophets who should [...]