Bland designs


Bland designs

Hear that rumbling through the Students’ Union building? No, it’s not from the train line. It’s the sound of change, and soon it will be the sound of a bulldozer. Plans are afoot to renovate the Union, and – ironically, given their focus on aesthetics – they’re not pretty.

They’re big plans. So big I almost feel obligated to say, “I’m gonna blow this shit wide open”, but seeing as the plans went online last Monday, I won’t.


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...is what people will be saying in years to come if these plans go ahead. But by now you’ve probably made up your mind that either a) it’s the end of the world as we know it (and you feel fine), b) it’s the end of the world as we know it (and you want to kill someone), or c) you couldn’t care less.

So I’ll get off my soapbox and instead look at some of the plans’ more bizarre suggestions. Those of you in the a) and b) categories might find them mildly diverting, and those of you in the c) category will just have to comfort yourselves with the fact that I haven’t just quoted an entire song by The Thrills again.


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