Institutional excitement. Not.All right, let's be fair to the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) is the professional body for architects in Scotland. It was founded in 1916 by Robert Rowand Anderson who donated his Georgian townhouse in Edinburgh to be used as its home, where it remains to this day. (as they are more accurately and quaintly known--though not as quaint, as this column has pointed out before, as Republic of Ireland architects being members of the Royal Institute of Irish Architects, of which country more in a minute). But for all its good intentions, the RIAS RIAS Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland RIAS Regulatory Impact Analysis Statement (Canada) RIAS Rundfunk Im Amerikanischen Sektor RIAS Research Institute for Advanced Studies site is an unimaginative old thing. The designers have done things like using identical pictures to illustrate different pages more likely, you think, they couldn't be bothered to get around to making each page fresh and interesting and ... Anyway it's at www.rias.org.uk. When last sighted the second lead news story was 'New [pounds sterling]5000 powder coating Powder coating is a type of dry coating, which is applied as a free-flowing, dry powder. The main difference between a conventional liquid paint and a powder coating is that the powder coating does not require a solvent to keep the binder and filler parts in a liquid suspension award launched' and the front-page picture seemed to be a truncated three-dimensional grid of rooms squeezed through the middle of a big curved blank wall in the shape of a 1950s boomerang boomerang (b  `mərăng'), special form of throwing stick, used mainly by the aborigines of Australia. table leg.
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