Think outside box on empty spaces

JUST as nature abhors a vacuum, society abhors empty spaces: we humans are a colonising species.

For a small island we’ve got a lot of empty, open, covered and semi-covered space right now — but let’s not panic about those millions of unused and built square feet, let’s be smart, creative, inch by inch.

The move to find new uses for part-baked buildings and environs is already on, led by our artists, and by our largely idle architects who’ve now got the luxury of time to reflect on what we’ve (half)built.