More Comment – Page 245
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Opinion
Olympic gold
Verdicts from the joint Cabe and Design for London panel on the first five major Olympic projects (News March 28) demonstrate how far the architecture of the 2012 games has come in a year.
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Fight not flight
A building itself might not be political, but surely organising our cities and public urban spaces is a social act and therefore political.
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Point the finger
At what stage of the design process for Heathrow Terminal 5 did Rogers Stirk Harbour and its client consider that fingerprinting the travelling public was an acceptable solution to a design problem?
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OpinionArt thought
Just as we are all heading for a recheck of our values, with the credit crunch looming over our clients’ heads, a debate is needed on how worthwhile some of our architecture is.
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OpinionDot to dot results: 28 March
The winner of last week’s competition is John Allum of Munday & Cramer in Chelmsford, who identified Eero Saarinen’s TWA terminal building at John F Kennedy airport, New York.
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Mayoral build-up
With the London mayoral race now at full throttle, Boots has a keen eye trained on Ken, Boris and Brian.
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Trapped in T5
As hundreds of architects and construction types gathered at AHMM’s groovy Westminster Academy for its opening last week, a major player was conspicuous by his absence — Nigel Hugill, chairman of Lend Lease Europe, one of Westminster’s more high profile champions.
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There’s ethics... and ethics
It’s good to see ethical issues debated in the pages of BD, but there is a danger of over-simplification.
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OpinionCabe’s Olympic subtext
Cabe’s supine praise for our hamstrung 2012 designs betrays its real fears of further assaults on creativity
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OpinionIt's all front
The smiling face of Margaret Hodge in last week’s BD was eclipsed by the bulkhead behind her screaming for attention through the Barking fenestration.
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OpinionShould western architects be taking on work in China?
Yes, we have a moral obligation to be part of a global solution says Scott Findlay; while William Menking argues that building in an oppressive regime is a political act
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OpinionBute, youre hired
Boots’ favourite aristocrat and architecture lover John Bute — who is considering a rescue bid for famed Scottish ruin St Peter’s Seminary — has shown a rather more populist touch by teaming up with Alan Sugar for the business guru’s latest series of The Apprentice.
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OpinionWho bears the brunt of this chaos?
Behind New York’s headline horrors lie old-fashioned tales of human greed and exploitation
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Reckless Erick
What planet is Erick van Egeraat on? The one thing we learn from history is that we don’t, and while Daniel Libeskind’s protest is a small one, I applaud it.
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Charity shopped
Most publications tend to shy away from the subject for fear of incurring the wrath of the Zionist movement/ lobby.
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Town downer
As a life-long resident of Barking, I am all too aware that Margaret Hodge doesn’t get into town very much, unless of course there is a camera about for her to beam into.
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Poor on detail
Saul Metzstein (Opinion March 14) rather glides over the change of tenure in Keeling House as a key factor in how this building was “rescued”.
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Conduct of code
Last week’s Debate made me consider what the point of the Code for Sustainable Homes is.