Tuesday 24 February 2015
Tunnel renaissance: Why cities are hiding roads down in the ground
In JG Ballard's biting satire Concrete Island, architect Robert Maitland ploughs his Jaguar off the M4 and wakes up trapped within a tangle of slip roads. The novel was published in 1973, when motorways were all the rage. But that dystopian vision of chunky flyovers and tangled roads in the sky is disappearing, as cities around the world are electing to hide roads down in the ground.
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Architects are branded ‘arrogant and egotistical’ – by one of their own
One of the country’s leading architects has launched a blistering attack on his own profession, branding his colleagues “arrogant” and “egotistical” and accusing them of “taking all the credit” at the expense of Britain’s under-valued engineers.
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