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OpinionMilton Keynes: a model for the future?
With a fresh wave of new town building on the way, Gordon Brown could learn a lot from the success of Milton Keynes which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. Our special report features Edward Jones, Andrew Waugh, Geoff Shearcroft, Derek Walker, Zoë Blackler, the drawings of Helmut Jacoby and ...
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OpinionLearning from Milton Keynes
Invited to interview a past master for the AF's Gold Lecture series, Geoff Shearcroft chose Derek Walker, Milton Keynes's former chief architect. The success of the city, Shearcroft argues here, offers a vital lesson for today's housing architects
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OpinionRalph Erskine's Eaglestone
As part of our week-long special celebrating Milton Keynes at 40, Zoë Blackler and photographer Ed Tyler take a tour of the city. Here they visit Eaglestone by Ralph Erskine
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OpinionA matter of life and death
The Stirling Prize is failing drastically in its approach to climate change, says Robin Nicholson, Cabe commissioner and director at Edward Cullinan Architects
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OpinionCentral Milton Keynes
As part of our week-long special celebrating Milton Keynes at 40, Zoë Blackler and photographer Ed Tyler take a tour of the city. Here they visit the shopping building and tree-lined boulevards of Central Milton Keynes
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OpinionNever say Nether again
As the masterplan for Milton Keynes took shape, idealistic young architects seized the chance to experiment with new housing on an unprecedented scale. Edward Jones looks back at life in the development corporation's windowless yellow HQ and how optimism turned to disappointment at Netherfield.
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OpinionMilton Keynes: The making of a suburban dream
From a stretch of rural Buckinghamshire to a 250,000-strong city, Zoë Blackler charts the history of an extraordinary building project
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OpinionThe vision for Milton Keynes
Forty years ago, with the country facing a growing housing crisis, plans began to build a new forest city in rural Buckinghamshire. As the utopian vision for Milton Keynes took shape, the German artist Helmut Jacoby produced a series of beautiful renderings of how the new city would look.
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OpinionWho should win the Stirling Prize 2007?
Architects and BD writers give their verdicts on the six buildings on the Stirling shortlist
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OpinionToo high a price for expansion
Architecture courses are hugely popular — great! But it’s not so clever if saturation means falling standards
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OpinionHands off Noddy, man of the people
Children’s TV programmes are more clued up than architects as to the housing people want
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OpinionDoes the UK have too many schools of architecture?
New courses are eroding the value of the title ‘architect’ says Richard Weston; while David Gloster argues that the quality can be maintained
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OpinionConfined by a design-community bug
Ian Martin fears a visit to an architectural launch party may be responsible for his mental illness
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OpinionOut of tune
Your article on Chetham’s School of Music (July 20) presents a misleading picture.
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OpinionHawking puzzle
The reported comments by the spokesman for Donald Insall Associates on being nominated for RIBA East Awards for the Stephen Hawking Building in West Road Cambridge (July 20), go some way to explain its puzzling nature.
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House grouse
For as long as I can remember, the debate about housing numbers has dragged on. Seeing film of housebuilding in the 1930s, nothing much has changed. We still pile lumps of baked clay (bricks) and cover roofs in slabs of stone (slates).
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Feeling blue
As the floodwaters recede from our river plains, I am reminded of the (paraphrased) words of Joni Mitchell: Oh, they paved paradise, put up an Olympic Park. They’re charging the people £9.2 billion just to see it though, not a dollar and a half.
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OpinionPlace setting
Unlike architecture, a “good place” takes much longer to evolve and develop its form (Debate July 20).
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How to stonewall
Of all the indignities suffered by architects, Boots imagines that fending off well meaning suggestions about how to improve the design of their buildings is one of the worst.
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Clapped out
Also at the town hall, though demonstrating rather less panache, was Stephan Reinke, managing partner of Woods Bagot, unsuccessfully trying to convince the meeting that his 100 West Cromwell Road tower development should get the green light.