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OpinionCounting the cost of Stirling
Is the UK’s top architecture prize now merely rewarding buildings with generous budgets?
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OpinionBright new talent from tough times
The downturn is shaking up the natural order to architecture’s benefit
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OpinionFourteen years on, has the Stirling Prize lost its sparkle?
Jay Merrick of the Independent argues the prize needs to be a catalyst for change, while Hugh Pearman says we should be proud of this popular annual award
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OpinionStirling after-party aftershocks
A surreptitious flick of the wrist and Boots found herself with a Stirling Prize after-party ticket, which turned out to be in a Corney & Barrow basement wine bar
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OpinionWe all need more play time
This government edict is indicative of the way Britain is doing its best to undermine its long-term future — and its architecture
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OpinionEnd of an era for embassies
Today’s opening of Tony Fretton’s Warsaw embassy could mark the final days of the Foreign Office as an enlightened client
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OpinionManchester guardians
I am sure that I won’t be the first to point out that the photograph in your article on Gateway House in Manchester (News October 9) depicts the wrong building
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EU registration
I would like to clarify that the requirements for registration as an architect for those non-UK trained applicants who have EU rights cannot legally include the need to secure a part III qualification in professional practice in the UK (Letters October 9)
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OpinionTime to return to the grass roots
A new form of “Civic Trust” is needed to get local projects the recognition they deserve
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Structural fault
Your correspondent Liam Kellehar (Letters October 9) tells us that Spanish architectural courses have a structural engineering requirement, with the capacity to design steel and reinforced concrete structures, something that should be incorporated in England
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Accordia discord
The review of Dwelling: Accordia about the Stirling prizewinner (Culture September 4) seems to talk mainly about what the book doesn’t cover
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OpinionUtility integrity
When was the last time a sub-station attained this level of design —or press, or debate? (Works October 9)
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Gender solutions
Re: “Reed vows to fight for students and women” (News October 9), I am a female architect who has stuck it out for over 25 years, and at times it has been very unpleasant; my lovelife was even pried into at one job interview
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Keep reading BD
Postal strikes are affecting deliveries of BD, particularly for practices in London
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OpinionSlow train to our lumpen fantasy past
Despite renewed interest in their radical edge, our suburbs stand for the failure of idealism
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OpinionCan the profession survive public spending cuts in its current form?
No says Barry Munday, after the election we will be into a very different landscape; while Levitt Bernstein’s Matthew Goulcher says new funding streams will lead to a focus on high quality products
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OpinionDeputies agree to differ over sisters
Boots would like to have been a fly on the wall in the Milton Davis household last week when news broke that Allies & Morrison’s Three Sisters scheme had been knocked back by the government
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OpinionBetter training, better decisions
It may well be that many councillors who sit on planning committees have no prior knowledge or training in any aspect of the built environment and are ill equipped to pass judgment on schemes that come before them
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OpinionThe bonfire of the vanities
Birmingham’s new library could mark the start of an era in which vital public services take precedent over showiness