Architects should be forbidden from designing cars says commenter
In this week s comments update, readers are critiquing Heatherwick Studio s concept for an electric car and sharing their views on other top stories.
Heatherwick Studio has unveiled its design for the Airo electric car for IM Motors that will vacuum up pollutants from other cars .
Named Airo, the electric car will be fitted with a HEPA – high-efficiency particulate air
– filtering system that will actively clean pollution. Like when Homer Simpson designed a car
Readers aren t convinced. Architects should be forbidden from designing cars, said Marc Sicard. Seeing strong parallels with The Simpsons episode when Homer Simpson designed a car, continued Only The Lonely.
Kohn Pedersen Fox plans to build three skyscrapers, linked by vertical planters, at 70 Gracechurch Street in the City of London.
The complex will play host to a mixture of retail spaces as well as a viewing platform.
It is intended as a new voice for London s Eastern Cluster – a group of skyscrapers that also includes KPF s Scalpel tower, alongside RSH+P s Leadenhall Building and Rafael Viñoly s Walkie Talkie. We don t need anymore of these sorts of buildings
Readers aren t sold. Does London really need anymore of these dreadful tall buildings? asked Nigel William Wakeham. Surely when more and more people are working at home we do not need anymore of these sort of buildings.