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The prefabs are sprouting  16 Nov 2005
A marriage between architects Shed KM and Yorkon, the modular buildings manufacturer, might seem like an unlikely match.

Yorkon produces a range of prefabricated units, including MacDonald’s drive-ins and Shed KM designs highly controlled and elegantly simple housing...

Standing up to the bungalow blitz  16 Nov 2005
The last time we saw Richard Murphy, he was publicly genuflecting before Irish architects at the Stirling Award.

Today, however, he is putting his unalloyed and very public praise of the Glucksman Gallery in Cork by O’Donnell and Toumey in the run-up to the...

The Sound of the anti-Suburbans  16 Nov 2005
Over 100 architects, planners and academics joined Richard Williams, Robert Adam, Jules Lubbock and Martha Schwartz for the second Prospect debate on urban anxiety.

New urbanism is fast becoming the new orthodoxy. Today the basic principals of the new urbanists –...

Dismal is as dismal does  16 Nov 2005
Earlier this year, after a four year gap, Prospect resurrected the Carbuncles, the awards for Scotland’s most dismal town.

The prize, a plook on a plinth, went to Cumbernauld for the second time. The infamous award, which is the outcome of a public vote on...