Opinion The Rubble Club calls for renovation over demolition

摘要

This may be the age of sustainability, but it is also the age when more and more buildings are disappearing in a puff of pulverised bricks and mortar. Once upon a time, architects could be confident their scheme would survive happily ever after. But now the chances are, most will live to see many of their grand schemes reduced to rubble, in a phenomenon akin to increasingly fat kids predeceasing their parents.