To be honest the engagement with the community and then being able to follow through on what we promised.

“Art should provoke, disturb, arouse our emotions, expand our sympathies in directions we may not anticipate and may not even wish.”
Joyce Carol Oates

Impeccable research - Most local libraries do look this way.

If woke means thinking that architecture has never been ‘autonomous and theory-led’ then I’m adding it to my bio right now.

I’m not sure poor Patrick ever understood what architecture is. Bless him. It’s so naive and nostalgic. But it did give me a good chuckle. Yesterday’s man if ever there was one.

Thank you! It’s on Spotify also etc. a lot of good ones in the archive also.

High praise - to be compared to some of our heroes makes it hard to respond to. But that’s a structure we really respect and admire. Its robustness. Its generosity and its presence.

Yes we were thinking of so many things. The green has links to the town’s industrial past and its sports teams, the expression is one that oscillates between caricature and figuration. Something that can be read from a distance and responds to human scale in proximity.

Yes, we were very influenced by the aesthetic theory of ‘banging buildings’ in our design.

We’re finishing something infrastructural…