All articles by David Mackay

  • Features

    Masterplanners need to banish the blobs

    2004-06-11T00:00:00Z

    A successful masterplan should be an essay in large-scale architectural composition, but too often they end up merely a collection of arrows and coloured blobs. As we experienced with a masterplanning project in Holland, this can be the fault of the clients and planners as much as the architects.

  • Features

    Speaking the same masterplan language

    2004-04-30T00:00:00Z

    You have probably had enough Lost in Translation conversations to last you a lifetime, but I am going to engage you in yet another. And I make no apology for it. This film is a good metaphor for masterplanning.