All Columnists articles – Page 46
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Park and chide
The recent highly public Northala fields controversy (News October 13) was triggered by Ealing’s newly elected Conservative council’s plans to divert £750,000 of the spoil-generated income to other projects.
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New prisons ignore design at their peril
The government has embraced prison building with passion, but without a very clear idea of a modern prison’s function.
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OpinionMaking a drama
I have never had the pleasure of working for RRP, but your “Exclusive” is over-hyped.
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Drawings solution
Many years ago, I asked Norman Foster for some drawings to use with my school students.
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Review panels need to be open
Until design review panels keep open minutes of their deliberations, such panels won’t wash in the eyes of the public (News analysis November 17).
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Photos belie Fife’s humane centre
Contrary to some of your letters, most people who have experienced the Maggie Centre in Fife find it warm and friendly.
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Disposed drawings
As the two tutors most involved with sixth year students from 1974 to 1990, we would like to express our dismay at the destruction of so much of their original design drawings and models.
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Libeskind’s lesson on finding the positive
As Daniel Libeskind admits, much of what an architect does is performance. Buildings have to be defended linguistically as well as visually but few architects are as convincing as he is when it comes to communicating ideas. Yet, as he admitted last week, it can be a struggle.
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Thames Gateway — a sustainable vision
It strikes me that some really stark choices face the politicians, developers and quango-meisters meeting to discuss the development of the Thames Gateway next week.
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Tip of the iceberg
This is the right time to support Richard Rogers and others in their campaign to put good architecture at the forefront of the procurement process for the Olympics (to which Roger Zogolovitch’s excellent letter in BD November 10 refers).
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Protection plans
I do not believe that abolition of grade II* listing will significantly reduce the complexity of dealing with heritage (News October 20).
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Still shining
It was disappointing to read the comments about the Sheffield School of Architecture from my former colleague and friend Peter G Fauset (Letters September 29).
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It works for us
I was interested to read such a variety of comments from BD readers on Zaha Hadid’s design for Maggie’s Fife.
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Housing renewal needs quality control
Anyone who has struggled in assembling a Billy bookcase from their local Ikea may wonder what challenges await those brave enough to buy one of their prefabricated homes.
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Too much detail
BD seems to be following much of the rest of the magazine industry in its reliance on large images to fill pages when a smaller one with more informative and quality text would be far preferable.
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Entrance to Hades
Ellis Woodhead calls Zaha Hadid’s Maggie’s Centre in Fife “architecture of a very high order”.
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Skirting the issue
I am obliged to Will Hurst for telling us that Tessa Jowell was “dressed casually in a blue floral dress and fitted jacket,”