Fresh from bestowing his wisdom on Sydney, Jahn Gehl has moved on to Londo. Jonathon Glancey, at the Guardian is not so impressed by proposed the internationalist, blandism of Jahn Gehl’s proposals for cities the world over: “page after page of Gehl’s book displays piazzas, plazas, squares and other public spaces of unremitting blandness. Any one could be mistaken for any other: unrelenting slabs of smooth, nougat-like granite; a determined lack of kerbs; shiny “designer” benches and “water features”.”
Via City of Sound.

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1. Glancey on Stirling Result
2. Gehl in NYC
3. Jonathan Glancey on the meeting of clothing and architecture
4. Jonathon Glancey on Sanaa’s Serpentine Pavilion