Housing

摘要

With housing minister Grant Shapps locked in a PR battle •with his Labour shadow Jack Drotney last week over the health of the UK house building sector - the blue corner says it's a record year, red says it's a shambles - RIBA has made at least one thing clear: design quality in this sector is atrocious. The evidence? Just four UK national awards this year (there are more international winners in 2012: five) and at least one of these - Glen Howell's Triangle development in Swindon for Kevin McCloud- wouldn't have happened without a celebrity on board.