• Beauty, Michael Gove, is only ever in the eye of a housebuilder’s bottom line | Rowan Moore

    The minister’s call for buildings to be aesthetically pleasing is all very well, but nimbies and developers have other concernsWhen Michael Gove says he wants new buildings to be more beautiful, who could possibly disagree? He calls for places to be created with “heart and soul”. He also hopes that opposition to new housing will diminish if there is “a general improvement in the standard of design”. Again, he has a point: who would want the site of Venice to be retu

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