Architectural practice FAT has a reputation for taking the mick. But its new social housing scheme in Manchester is at once playful and perfectly serious. As I stand with an architect on a street corner in east Manchester, a woman walks by pushing a pram. On the other side of the street stretches a short terrace of brick houses named Islington Square, designed by the architect. Her face contorts in disapproval and she utters a short Mancunian expletive. What has provoked the woman's ire is no doubt its utterly bizarre styling.
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