Hints and tips:
...There are the old oak, pine and cherry trees on the perimeter that conceal almost all views of the Tokyo skyline....
...With updated insulation, security, lifts and gardens they work exactly as Goldfinger intended. Sometimes, social housing is the best kind....
...Sam Jacob’s half-timbered T-shirt and insulation scarf (the latter woven with the wavy architectural symbol for insulation — sign and signified together, very postmodern) are, I think, particularly good....
...It is one of the oddest quirks of any city’s planning system that its skyline is ordered not by any particular series of regulations but by viewing corridors of the cathedral from some rather random spots...
...There is only one crane visible in the skyline. Back in the early 2000s there would have been clutches of them....
...The cranes that rise above the London skyline, metal arms akimbo, suggest a city in the midst of a construction boom. The vista belies the reality beneath, however....
...It is built using a wonderful new timber product that is structure, cladding and insulation all in one....
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