More Comment – Page 189
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OpinionGraphs belong to another era
I must admit I was surprised to learn that some practices still use the fee survey graph to calculate fees. Removing this from the RIBA A Client’s Guide to Engaging an Architect will surely be beneficial to architects and clients alike
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OpinionPolyark is on the right road
The issues Cedric Price’s student project addressed in the 1970s are still important to architecture schools today
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OpinionAD addendum
For the record, Monica Pidgeon (News: obituary September 25) didn’t publish Rem Koolhaas: that was Haig Beck in 1977, after she had left Architectural Design
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OpinionAge of margarine classicism
People might not have noticed the difference between margarine and butter in those old ads, but they do see the difference between traditional and modern
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OpinionWe need to design in four dimensions
The Copenhagen summit is over after two weeks but buildings last for centuries
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OpinionDoes too much consultation inhibit great architecture?
Yes, tough decisions can be necessary, says Alex Lifschutz; while Anna Minton argues that democracy means the people affected must have a say
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OpinionVenice dilemma
Word reaches Boots that the director of next year’s Venice Architecture Biennale is soon to be appointed. This time round the biennale authorities have set themselves a triple challenge: they are looking for an architect of international standing who also happens to be a woman and also a non-European
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OpinionCorrection
Last week’s news item on Project Orange’s forthcoming extension to the Moran Hotel in Chiswick was unfortunately accompanied by an image of the existing building.
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Still badly paid
The RIBA needs to be doing more to get a standard fee level agreed between architectural practices. This process should not involve clients at all
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Solid structures
Not only was structural engineering (Letters October 16) part of the AA’s syllabus in the 1940s and 1950s, back in the 1960s (and of course before and after that golden age) it comprised an important part of the architecture syllabus at Edinburgh College of Art
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Goodbye to Berlin
“Welcome to Germany”... “Berlin Boost” (Letters October 23) — the navel-gazers put one in mind of the incomparable Mort Sahl, when contemplating the build quality of the VW Beetle: “How did they lose?”
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Some key points
Your report on designs for the new Tottenham Court Road station (News October 16) calls it “the first of three key interchange stations in the Crossrail project”. Three?
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Being there: Haig Beck remembers Monica Pidgeon and his time at the AD
I must have been the only likely person left in London that weekend in 1975 when Monica Pidgeon rang offering me a position as associate editor of Architectural Design.
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OpinionWelcome to Germany
I recently attended a splendid dinner in Berlin to celebrate the completion of David Chipperfield’s renovation of the Neues Museum.
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Berlin boost
I was passing through Berlin last week with three hours to spare and walked over to see the Neues Museum.
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FO credentials
Your piece “Foreign Office U-turn over embassy costs” (News October 16) does not ring true in our experience
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Alive and well
Please apprise Jonathan Glancey (October 16) of the fact that Civic Trust Awards are still going ahead and that there are a lot more this year
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Biting back
In Andrew Mead’s rather sour review of my new book, The Freedoms of Suburbia (Culture October 2), he seems to be still brooding — 40 years on — about the anarcho-libertarian Non-Plan special issue of New Society magazine, which I wrote with Reyner Banham, Peter Hall and Cedric Price in ...
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Food for thought
Having just returned from the Rotterdam Biennale, I can’t help but feel Oliver Wainwright’s write-up was a little harsh (Culture October 9)
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Cockerell & bull
In the final episode of Kevin McCloud’s Grand Tour, earlier this month on Channel 4, I was distressed to hear McCloud attribute the design of St George’s Hall, in Liverpool, to Charles R Cockerell