SOUNDBITE 2: TALKING BUILDING: JOE PUBLIC

blablablarchitecture is talking buildings. In Soundbite 2, we listen to the general public talking about a building.

Joe Public talking building is the polar opposite of ‘arch speak’: it is plain english casual conversations about architecture but not by architects. As part of the planning application for 127sho_Shoreditch Station, WHAT_archirecture sent Victor Wu out onto the streets of Shoreditch to ask and record the public. We wanted to formally test the Conservation perception that the existing modest single storey brick building was identifiably a railway station. Talkback ‘soundings’ is thus a valid form of public consultation/

SAY WHAT_!?

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