art, architecture, environment & politics | former UKHE worker | GPEW (but here as a civilian) | chief distractions: novels, poetry, botany, buildings | he/him | Green Light (2006)
Ian Hunt
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much social media is ritualistic rather than antagonistic, i.e. sharing info & small acts of solidarity within a group which roughly agrees with itself. I'm ok with that. It's good sometimes to read writing that gives insight into how a group's rough agreement with itself contains disagreements too.
Not recommending The Trespasser as Isle of Wight holiday reading material!
New building opposite Kings Cross station, dynamic, with aspects of Michael Hopkins and James Stirling. What do people know about it, for life sciences maybe? Most Kings Cross site architecture is indifferent or shit. This is a welcome surprise. #architecture #London
Yes -- it is a life sciences building. Belgrove House, designed by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris. Much awarded, and rightly. It compares well with the Gibbs building for Wellcome by Hopkins architects, further along the road. www.ahmm.co.uk/projects/off...
This week my chapter ‘Written on the student body: Tension between policy and safeguarding’ was published in ‘The Routledge International Handbook of Schooling in Times of Crisis'. It highlights the progression of anti-trans rhetoric in the 2019-2024 Parliament, and tracks 1/2
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“This is an unprecedented attack on civil rights by an already deeply authoritarian Labour government, and sets a dark precedent for tyrannical new powers that will be handed to future governments in order to crush dissent.”
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While Belgrove House makes work public in a prominent position (with a tube exit, it has been developed as part of a 2-building proposal. Acorn House, on Gray's Inn Road nearby, is housing, 33 flats, 60% social rent, 40% 'intermediate rent tenures'. #SocialHousing www.ahmm.co.uk/projects/res...
This chapter details the policy actions of the 2019–2024 United Kingdom (UK) Conservative Government in reaction to orchestrated campaigning on the inclusion of
I designed some posters about the draconian sentencing of the Filton 6 who after being convicted by a jury of criminal damage will now be sentenced by the judge as terrorists. This is an unprecedented...
Located on Euston Road opposite King’s Cross and St Pancras stations, Belgrove House is a new-build specialised research & development and office building.
Decided to start on #DHLawrence last year after a lifetime of avoiding. Slow progress. No. 1, The White Peacock is straightforwardly good in all kinds of ways. No. 2 The Trespasser, 1912, is very strangely written indeed, sometimes repulsive. More than once I wished he had burned it . . . /
