If I had a pound for every developer, designer or official who told me that a bridge, office, home or factory must be ugly because it’s “all we can afford”, reader, I would be a rich man. But what they tell you is a lie: ugliness is always a choice.
What infrastructure looks like is back in the news thanks to a delightful new railway bridge (not a phrase normally heard) designed by ADAM Architecture for the Duchy of Cornwall.