(From an episode of The Simpsons) Lisa: Cheer up, Dad. Did you know the Chinese use the same word for ‘crisis’ as they do for ‘opportunity’? Homer: Yes...
Colin Innes
What a load of rubbish on the news. Literally, I mean. A turtle having a straw removed from its nostril. A seahorse straddling a cotton bud. Recent images such...
Ah, Christmas and New Year. The time for families to reunite, foes to reconcile, and football to conquer our TV screens. Fast and furious action, full-seater...
One of my favourite words, a word which instantly takes me back to my English GCSE studies, is oxymoron. We make oxymorons by combining contradictory words:...
If we aspire in our lives to achieve something permanent, of tangible use to future generations, then an architect’s work crystallises this ideal. And yet in...
In my previous article, I discussed Japan’s scrap-and-build approach to construction and looked at how modern architects are combatting this trend with...