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Fri
22
Sep
Call him a "paedo-beast", but don't call him an architect

Building Design (sorry, subscription only) carries the interesting story of how the Architects Registration Board (ARB) is fighting a battle with British newspapers to retract headlines like the following:

Architect dressed as a tramp to molest girls [Independent]
13 years for "evil architect" [Megastar]
Sex-attacker architect targeted girls while disguised as a tramp [Scotsman]

And there are others. It appears he wasn't, technically, an architect, but a Wandsworth Council building inspector. ARB appears concerned that people might mistake "architect" and "paedo", and assume this is the kind of thing many architects do in their leisure time. Which is, clearly, a preposterous concern. There's about as much danger of people assuming paedos wear rimless glasses, drive Saabs and design houses in theirs. Meanwhile, tramps are now "very concerned" that the story might lead to suspicion that some of them are building inspectors in disguise.


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