More Comment – Page 192
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Opinion
We’ll do the math
I wish to clarify the situation regarding the authorship of the masterplan for the former Radcliffe Infirmary site in Oxford (News analysis September 18)
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OpinionCladding is not just skin deep
To answer Owen Hatherley’s rather naive question about over-cladding older residential tower blocks (Opinion September 18), most residential blocks have to be refurbished and upgraded with residents in place.
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OpinionExposing the mayor’s failings
Richard Rogers’ resignation as Boris Johnson’s design adviser reflects on a mayor with little interest in architecture
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OpinionUnited we stand... and amble
Why “inclusive placemaking” in parks is threatening to divide our communities
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OpinionUrban legend
The very first issue that I bought of Monica Pidgeon’s AD was January 1960 on Frank Lloyd Wright
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Dress the part
As a part II student studying for the RIBA part III examinations in order to be registered as an architect, I was shocked to find out that an EU student can gain entry to the register by simply demonstrating four years of academic qualification and two years of professional experience
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Undue influence
As one of the candidates that stood for election for the Arb, I was pleased to see the ruling by the Advertising Standards Authority (News September 11)
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A holy bond
Regarding your story on Canterbury Cathedral’s window facing collapse (News September 18), where can I buy that duct tape?
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Female drought
A full-page advertisement for the Thames Gateway Forum (BD September 18) lists speakers at a forthcoming meeting of the Forum in November
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OpinionAre small firms better placed to weather the downturn?
Clients prefer the personal touch of a smaller practice, says Brian Walters; while HOK’s Andrew Barraclough argues that they are too dependent on individual projects
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OpinionNotts bothered about second place
Academics at Nottingham University are complaining that Make’s Jubilee Campus only took second place in this year’s BD Carbuncle Cup.
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OpinionSmall comfort in hard times
The recession may technically be ending but practices — particularly the larger ones — will continue to feel the pain
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Joint effort to stop terrorism
BD’s sensationalist piece about the RIBA’s response to the Home Office on counterterrorism (News September 11) misses the whole point of a government consultation — as a good platform on which to submit recommendations and, if necessary, a challenging critique
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Opinion
Wrong choice
I much admire Ellis Woodman’s writing but he is wrong (Leader September 11) regarding my frustration over the Glasgow School of Art competition
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Not just Scots
Supporting Scottish designers? How about just supporting good designers full stop
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Drawing comfort
Reading the review of the Tricorn Centre book (Culture September 18) reminded me how whenever my retired-architect Dad and I discuss such “second-tier” brutalist megastructures where the architect’s megalomania coalesced with the developer’s (or council’s) delusions of grandeur, he damns them acerbically thus: “I’ll bet it looked fantastic on the ...
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Poles apart
Prompted by William Curtis’s article (Opinion September 4) I visited the 7/7 Memorial in Hyde Park
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Manasseh memo
I am writing a monograph on the work of Leonard Manasseh and would be delighted if anyone with information or stories about Leonard’s life and work could contact me at tjb33@kent.ac.uk, or at the postal address below.Timothy Brittain-Catlin, Kent School of Architecture, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NR
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OpinionHelpless towers are being buried
What lies behind this Europe-wide mania for recladding post-war buildings?