Street-Porter and Heathcote Battle Over the Death of Architecture Week

Building Design has a really great follow up piece to a story we were reporting on last week, the shut-down of Architecture Week in the UK. In it, they take the point-counterpoint route, with writer Janet Street-Porter and the Financial Times‘ architecture critic, Edwin Heathcote. Street-Porter argues that this was an inconceivably stupid move by the Arts Council (the body who finances the ‘Week’) and Heathcote, takes the opposing viewpoint, saying that the whole affair had always come across as sad, desperate, boring and relatively pointless, so it’s no big loss in the end.