More Comment – Page 199
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Opinion
Dead on the slab
Amidst the burgeoning hubris of an architect spurned, your leader was most welcome, pointing out that the Chelsea Barracks scheme was probably heading for rejection by due democratic process
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OpinionDon’t Bury it yet
Having seen Studio MGM’s timber-framed and clad apartments rise from a particularly drab corner of the Bury St Edmunds ring road over the past couple of years, I was aghast at John Henry Kneller Eborn’s prejudiced and ill-informed letter (June 19)
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Barrier grief
While I think that shared spaces offer an improvement on the cluttered streets we tolerate, the thought that they exclude blind and partially sighted people makes me uneasy
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Bad education
Tim Ward’s letter (June 19) raised only one aspect of the architectural students’ woes. The other is that they leave their schools with a woefully inadequate education
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OpinionBerlusconi’s historical precedents
Bare breasts and buttocks are par for the course at any Roman leader’s retreat
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OpinionDoes the disabled lobby have too great a say in planning?
Yes, the ‘shouting down’ brigade can be harmful, says Simon Allford; no, everyone is entitled to be safe in public, argues Steve Winyard
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OpinionJudge not lest you be judged, learns Sharp
It wasn’t just the British establishment who didn’t make the opening of Bernard Tschumi’s New Acropolis Museum in Athens last weekend.
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Shape shifter
Jonathan Glancey (June 19) seems to be perpetuating an urban myth. Does he really believe the plan of the NatWest Tower was based on the NatWest logo?
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OpinionCan Britain grin and share it?
One of the reasons I so respect Frank Pick (1878-1941), the legendary chief executive of the London Passenger Transport Board, is that he made common places shine.
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OpinionMousavi the architect
The Western world is gripped by the pictures, video footage and twitter correspondence still flooding out of Iran despite the ruling party’s best efforts to stem the flow - and in almost all of the sympathetic coverage, opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi has been described as an artist and architect.
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Opinion
Help us fight fees
In response to the mass email issued by Sunand Prasad (News page 6), if the RIBA wishes to help smaller firms of architects and sole practitioners deal with the perpetual expectancy to carry out work on spec and partake in fee bidding, it should do something a bit more robust ...
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Opinion
Unfair advantage
Richard Rogers’ call for a national inquiry into the prince’s constitutional role should be welcomed
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Bonny prince
I work with communities where the planners, architects and corporations they represent are riding roughshod over livelihoods and treasured environments
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OpinionRally to Rogers
It’s with no surprise that we read the people’s architect Prince Charles is single-handedly able to alter the course of one of the most important projects in London this decade
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OpinionWe can’t all run back to daddy
Recently your magazine, to my despair, has highlighted the snobbery of the architectural world (News June 12)
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OpinionWhat’s in a name? Quite a lot
Changing a building’s name when it changes hands is confusing and disrespectful to the original client?
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OpinionPublic were the real killers
It was the people, not the prince, who delivered the death blow to Rogers’ Chelsea Barracks plans
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Opinion
Waking the dead
Owen Hatherley (Opinion June 22) notes that sobriety and abstraction are fashionable virtues for memorials but architects often seem to have problems distinguishing between the zeitgeist and a rather more holistic and historical attitude towards sculpture and memorials