Boris Watch

Capoco’s rather poor website hadn’t anything up last time I checked, but the original Routemaster idea there is more-or-less the same anyway, so perhaps they don’t feel the need.
However, Lord Foster’s entry has a glossy webpage full of shiny pictures.  Check it out.  There’s a man who understands that what’s important in modern design is [...]

Dave Hill’s take on Antony Browne’s Stalinesque recantation of his previously expressed ideology.  Read it, its implications go far beyond mere issues of personnel in London and into the dark heart of the right-wing noise machine, where Boris Johnson found so much comfort and employment.  Dave correctly calls the Alton-era Observer for being basically a [...]

Round-up of links :

BBC
Evening Standard
Railway Eye, where the Fact Compiler draws the technical and organisational parallels between Boris’s RM and the DfT’s ‘Frankenstein Train’ IEP and Thameslink procurements.  Both are characterised by people who don’t know what they’re doing thinking they know better than the industry experts honed by the pressures of commercial reality, plus [...]

Good day to bury bad, or rather embarrassing news:

PLANS for a 25-storey tower in Ealing town centre, designed by Lord Foster, are set to go ahead after the local council approved the scheme and the Mayor signalled support.
The green light for the replacement of the 40-storey “Penny Whistle” design will cast fresh doubts over Boris [...]

Not being a journalist, probably not being welcome and definitely have two sets of builders and a day’s work on my plate, I’m not going to be able to follow the competition results too closely, but Dave Hill is coming over all Web 2.0 on us and twittering away.  News so far is that there [...]