More Comment – Page 180
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OpinionPoundbury’s public deceit
Malcolm Millais (Debate February 19) accuses architects of living in their own narcissistic ghetto and ignoring public opinion. He cites Poundbury as a prime example of what people really want but, if this is the apogee of public taste, god help us all
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Kick for Cabe
It is regrettable that the Homes & Communities Agency (HCA) has decided to reduce the involvement of the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (Cabe) in Round 2 of Kickstart
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OpinionCabe’s paranoid tendencies
Our quest to uncover the Kickstart scores has growing parallels with the MPs’ expenses scandal
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Refrain, please
I find myself equally affronted by both protagonists in your debate “Should architects try harder to please the public?” (February 19)
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OpinionCan we be frank?
David Chipperfield writes of the need for “sympathetic clients, open-minded planning committees and an informed public” in the context of “an atmosphere that does not encourage good design”
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Northern delights
Carolyn Steel (Opinion February 5) concentrates on just one of Asplund’s works but, in my view, his greatest achievement was his woodland cemetery, for its unique attention to detail and landscapeWhen I visited Asplund’s Gothenburg Law Courts extension as a student over 60 years ago it was the wonderful interior ...
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OpinionDublin’s docklands, a melting pot of failure
The recession has left Dublin’s half-hearted and half-finished new buildings open to reinterpretation
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OpinionIs the listings process guilty of being too populist?
Heritage campaigner Robin Stummer says, yes, the UK struggles to define significance, while architecture minister Margaret Hodge argues for listing buildings with historical importance such as Abbey Road
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OpinionSong and dance in Glasgow
Those who lost out in the £10 million job to upgrade Glasgow’s Theatre Royal are grumbling about a conflict of interest because the wife of Alex Reedijk, Scottish Opera’s general director, is architect Anne Goldrick, who works for none other than the winner, Page\Park
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OpinionWhat a difference a year makes…
Cabe chief executive Richard Simmons on why “nothing poor” must be built with public money – one year ago
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Modern mirage
David Chipperfield (Letters) and Piers Gough (Debate) made a good pair in last week’s issue
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OpinionCompetition not cronyism
Britain needs more competitions and more clients like the US government, not fewer
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OpinionChipping in on the debate
How arrogant of me to be frustrated that the architecture correspondent of our most respected newspaper refused to comment on a project that took 11 years and was the subject of intense debate and criticism in every other European newspaper
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OpinionPotemkin would be proud
Putting a fancy hoarding around an eyesore is no way to tackle the run-down areas of east London
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Starting point
There has been a great deal of coverage recently on the schemes funded under the first round of Kickstart
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OpinionHomes are not political pawns
There is no official body willing to lift us out of the Kickstart mess
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OpinionUnreconstructed
When my beautiful Mark VII Jaguar sustained an ugly crumple to the offside wing, I took it to the garage for repairs with the express instructions that they ignore the mildly patinated and seductively curved bottle-green original coachwork but rather patch the offending area with some functional construction in angled ...