Curves are to be banned in a new generation of no-frills school buildings, according to a government crackdown on what it believes is wasteful extravagance in educational architecture.
Design templates unveiled for 261 replacement school buildings also prohibit folding internal partitions to subdivide classrooms, roof terraces that can be used as play areas, glazed walls and translucent plastic roofs.
— guardian.co.uk
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This is pretty wild...
Totally absurd. Hopefully some cultural appreciation will return with the economy in a few years :/
This reminds me of this lecture from Georgia Tech. Towards the very end he, one of the members of the school warns that the next architecture to be taken from "us" will be education, following in the footsteps of healthcare and penitentiary facilities.
Who would have guessed that longtime conservative Michael Gove has an affinity for concrete bunkers.
its even worse than what Emperor Joseph II says to Mozart in the film Amadeus: "My dear young man, don't take it too hard. Your work is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that's all. Just cut a few and it will be perfect."
orthophiles, ululate at the demise of the curve!
i tell you, the world is getting more religious in its attitude even if more secular in its content.
What? No curves? This is obviously anti-woman. Obviously!
Misogyny, yo!
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