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Architectural Review, The, July, 2003

All right, let's be fair to the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (as they are more accurately and quaintly known--though not as quaint, as this column has pointed out before, as Republic of Ireland architects being members of the Royal Institute of Irish Architects, of which country more in a minute).

But for all its good intentions, the RIAS site is an unimaginative old thing. The designers have done things like using identical pictures to illustrate different pages more likely, you think, they couldn't be bothered to get around to making each page fresh and interesting and ... Anyway it's at www.rias.org.uk. When last sighted the second lead news story was 'New [pounds sterling]5000 powder coating award launched' and the front-page picture seemed to be a truncated three-dimensional grid of rooms squeezed through the middle of a big curved blank wall in the shape of a 1950s boomerang table leg.