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OpinionTripoli's burnt-out case
The Foreign Office might have scaled back its embassy-building ambitions for the time being but even its penny pinchers can’t deny that there’s one embassy project that is ripe for more than an austerity refurb: Tripoli.
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OpinionGrayson Perry's fresh inspiration
Artist Grayson Perry was at London’s ICA last week discussing the use of ornament in architecture.
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OpinionQuay questions for the BBC
The BBC might be able to wriggle out of responsibility for MediaCity UK on the grounds it was not actually the client — but this doesn’t alter the fact it struck a very bad deal with developer Peel Holdings, according to a former member of the BBC’s design review panel.
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OpinionThe real cost of free schools
The government has just announced that the first 24 free schools are set to open in a couple of weeks, having involved a capital expenditure of somewhere between £110 and £130 million.
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Traditionalist architects are blocked every time
Paul Finch has thrown down a challenge (Letters August 26) to prove bias in Cabe and says that the Traditional Architecture Group protesters don’t have direct experience.
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Greenwich University must change course
Neil Spiller’s actions at Greenwich University come as no real surprise (“Spiller wields axe” News August 26).
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Photographers need perspective
Photographers behave as if the imposition of their particular agenda is some God-given right (“Don’t photograph our building, say private security guards caught on film” bdonline August 19).
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OpinionWhen Delhi's Kingdom of Dreams is shut
India’s capital shows us the process of becoming a metropolis — and it isn’t pretty
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OpinionIs being cool an appropriate ambition for the RIBA?
Yes says Chris Roche, former RIBA Council member. No says Joe Morris, director at Duggan Morris Architects.
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OpinionOur judges' husky voices
Carbuncle Cup judge Rowan Moore was particularly well placed to compare the BBC’s new base in Salford with its old accommodation.
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OpinionProject & survive at the RIBA debate
Boots is pleased to hear the panel members for next week’s RIBA Building Futures debate — Has the architectural media lost its backbone? — are taking it very seriously.
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OpinionRCA dean position: It's academic
Rumours rage as to who was on the shortlist for the RCA architecture dean this week, as interviews finally took place at a secret location.
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OpinionScabal: Flushed with enthusiasm
Two of the photos that strangely failed to make the cut in this week’s Inspiration.
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OpinionRight now, no one’s a winner
Adopting a new approach to competitions could save time and money – and offer better opportunities for young practices
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OpinionGive architects a role in investing in communities
The riots are a direct consequence of policies which alienate architects, pander to big business and line the pockets of bankers, developers, PFI companies, and other private organisations at the expense of the public purse.
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Cabe has no bias against tradition
It was cheering to read Francis Terry’s comment on Design Council Cabe (Debate August 12), since he has had direct experience of how we work, unlike Ptolemy Dean, Jonathan Glancey or Maritz Vandenberg in the same issue.
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Getting the Nord story straight
I write in response to the piece in Boots (August 12) regarding Wexford County Council Headquarters. The project was designed by the practice Nord LLP, which was renamed Robin Lee Architecture in 2011.
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OpinionBuilding an escape from the ghetto
The results of the very rich living next to the very poor can be seen in Hackney and Clapham
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OpinionCan planning policy safeguards stop overdevelopment?
Yes, says Jeremy Blackburn, they will protect the countryside; while Peter Nixon says that reform is going too far
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OpinionSplashing out on Stirling after-party
If you’ve ever dreamt of partying in the largest listed building in Europe now may be your chance.