More Comment – Page 273
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High-rise future
In future I predict all UK high-rise buildings will include “cultavations”, that is, cultivated elevations on their south-facing sides.
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Great and good
BD is always improving but surely it won’t get any better than this (“Grand masters” July 13)?
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OpinionEH must win our confidence
The walkie talkie go-ahead gives notice that the UK will decide its own future — but we need strong, clear leadership
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OpinionIf money talks, let it be loud and clear
While the old days of distrust have diminished, real openness will only be won by frank dealings
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OpinionIs the Arts Council wrong to scrap Architecture Week?
The decision smacks of pathetic desperation, says Janet Street-Porter, but Edwin Heathcoate thinks the event is overloaded, incoherent and mostly ill-conceived
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OpinionThe Court of Aesthetic Control in session
Mark ‘Buncey’ Buncewell is charged with ravishment and despoilation of a grade II listed 18th century house
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Awards can’t be perfect for all
The fundamental problem for the RIBA Awards is how to attain consistency in assessment and quality of award in an expansive system. This is the conundrum.
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Poor practice
“It is a magical project by one of our brightest emerging practices,” says Niall McLaughlin, chair of the RIBA Awards, about the Singing Ringing Tree (July 6).
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OpinionHousing chaos
The RIBA has published a policy paper, Better Homes and Neighbourhoods, July 2007
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Fairs’ fair
Like Marcus Fairs (Opinion, June 29), we were sceptical about hiring an architect when we decided to give our 1970s townhouse a contemporary makeover. The building is equally devoid of straight walls and right angles, and the project was always about subtraction rather than addition.
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Down with icons
With respect to the distinguished Thames Gateway panel, surely it is impossible to believe that any one building, however iconic, could invigorate a whole area?
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Culture splash
As part of the Liverpool Capital of Culture 2008 celebrations, the School of Architecture is organising an exhibition and publication of work by prominent alumni, focusing mainly on their worldwide architectural influence.
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OpinionHats off to Rab
Just in case anyone doubted that Bennetts Associates’ success hasn’t diminished its fun-loving side, it has published 20 Moments to mark 20 years of its history.
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Twist of Tate
Former Design Museum director and the Observer’s architecture critic Stephen Bayley has revealed that the museum’s aborted attempt to join forces with the Tate is a case of history repeating itself.
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Chipper feel
Congratulations to Roger Stephenson, who is to marry his girlfriend Margaret later this month.
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Tickets to ride
At a reunion of this year’s Cycle 2 Cannes event this week Boots was impressed with riders who raised £275,000 for charity.
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Cunning plan
Boots was alarmed to see that a group campaigning against the recent planning white paper has submitted an application to build a waste incinerator on the site of St Paul’s Cathedral.
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Wet and dry
Olympic chiefs, worried about the cost of Zaha’s aquatics centre, must be taking heart from her temporary Serpentine pavilion which opened this week, on time and budget.
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OpinionPlain speaking fits the bill
With the debate on housing raging on several fronts, Margaret Hodge’s frank style is to be welcomed
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OpinionLeft in the cold by cult of the engineer
The fad of relying on an engineer to make an illogical design work devalues the architect’s role