Archinect - News2013-05-18T13:18:23-04:00http://archinect.com/news/article/65960856/bristol-s-architect-mayor-wants-the-city-to-be-a-laboratory-for-change
Bristol's architect mayor wants the city to be a 'laboratory for change' Archinect2013-01-21T14:11:00-05:00>2013-01-29T09:28:24-05:00<img src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/12/127e97c3316c79b84712a3b17f6a576a.jpg" width="460" height="276" border="0" title="" alt="" /><em><p>"I'm going to be intolerant of bad architecture," he says, describing how the former head of planning was a highways engineer who "let anything and everything through – including office blocks stacked on top of multistorey car parks.
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NM Mayor: I Was Quite Drunk When I Signed Those $1 Million Contracts Paul Petrunia2011-08-05T13:26:01-04:00>2011-08-06T19:38:55-04:00<img src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/57/5757d67f1415425db465cd305ada8a54.jpg" width="320" height="240" border="0" title="" alt="" /><em><p>According to court documents, Resendiz admitted in a June 2010 deposition that he was drunk when he signed nine contracts with the architectural design firm Synthesis+ for $1 million worth of work.</p></em><br /><br /><p>
Found via <a href="http://archinect.com/forum/thread/15770365/ever-awakened-in-the-morning-with-a-hangover-and-1m-in-architectural-design-contracts" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">this discussion in the Forum</a>.</p>