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jaywalker A person who crosses a road where they are not meant to, or without taking due care. |
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jelly-bean architecture blob architecture. The urbanist kelvin campbell used the term in 2003. |
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Jenkins’ law States that any outfit moving in to a splendid new headquarters is heading for the rocks. The law was formulated by the author and journalist Simon Jenkins (2004). It was inspired by C Northcote Parkinson, well-known for his law that 'work expands to fill the time available for its completion' and less well for the 'administration block', a law that predicts that only when an organisation is heading for decline will its executives start planning new accommodation. |
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jewel of the north Reykjavik, Iceland. |
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jigger rabbit (Liverpool) A rat. A jigger is a back alley. |
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joke oak A pejorative term for a style of house design featuring (usually fake) half-timbering. |
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joke oak A pejorative term for a style of house design featuring fake half-timbering. |
Juliette balcony A balustrade, usually of open metalwork, guarding an exterior door (normally serving an upper floor of a building) that may from afar look like a usable balcony but provides a neglible area beyond the main part of the building. The details are sometimes styled to match genuine balconies in the same facade.
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junkscape Space without distinctive character; the chaotic environments created by modern consumer society; in the words of the architect rem koolhaas, 'the residue mankind leaves on the planet' (Moore, 2003). 'Junkscape,' writes Koolhaas, 'is like being condemned to a perpetual jacuzzi with millions of your best friends.' |
Bad plays need not be seen, books need not be read, but nothing but blindness or the numbing of our faculty of observation can protect us from buildings in the street.