Out of the frame

2006-09-22T00:00:00

I was unmoved by the wake of vested sensationalism following the Colindale fire, where an innocent bystander (a timber frame building awaiting its fire protection) rapidly became the industry’s Joan of Arc with a typically reductive red herring polemic: masonry versus timber frame.

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