{"id":2988,"date":"2013-01-22T10:40:06","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T10:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markstephensarchitects.com\/?p=2988"},"modified":"2013-01-22T10:40:06","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T10:40:06","slug":"visual-appropriateness-car-show-rooms-and-church-gables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markstephensarchitects.com\/visual-appropriateness-car-show-rooms-and-church-gables\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Appropriateness, car show rooms and church gables"},"content":{"rendered":"
As the faithful readers know I studied at was Oxford Polytechnic (now Brookes) and the defacto bible that the architects and urban designers worked to was RESPONSIVE ENVIRONMENTS A Manual for Designers by Bentley, Alcock, Murrain, McGlynn Smith<\/a> Still very relevant and brilliantly still in print (click on link to buy from Amazon). I’d mentioned the book previously in this POST<\/a> but this post covers a couple of concepts I’d be mulling over recently:<\/p>\n I’m currently working on a project where the client is a little worried that too much glass = car show room (see below for example from SenatorCommercial.ie <\/a>:<\/p>\n