More Comment – Page 282
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OpinionThe glorious dawn of our Five Year Plan
I’m British not Stalinist, writes Chancellor of the Exchequer Gurnon Frown
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OpinionNight of the planning triumph
Council planning committees could learn a trick from eBay, muses Roger Zogolovitch
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OpinionBlair’s legacy is the red tape
Despite positive architectural initiatives, housing has been the PM’s greatest failing
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OpinionEmpty ritual of the consultation show
Community involvement exercises are the most effective way to ignore the locals
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OpinionSpace for all
Far from being gentrification of an existing area, Gillett Square was a grotty car park and through-road.
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Fair and square
The building of Gillett Square is a locally-based project some 15 years in the making, and good for another 100.
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Skys the limit
Looking at page 5 (April 20), I wonder again why even the best architects think skyscraper design is either a matter of getting a wedge of cheese and cutting lumps off it, or making a vaguely rude shape out of plasticine.
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No foundation
Concrete Boots (April 6) suggested that Cabe’s funding for the Architecture Foundation has been cut as a result of alleged criticisms of our exhibition programme.
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Misread accolade
No author should complain about a review as generous as Tom Muirhead’s of my book Britain (April 27), and I am grateful for it.
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OpinionHas the Blair decade been good for architecture?
Ken Shuttleworth argues that the government has raised architecture’s profile as a vital tool, while Jonathan Glancey says we have seen a glut of crass buildings
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Party tricks
Davis Langdon partner Paul Morrell’s retirement party at the top of the Gherkin was remarkable not just for the spectacular views or the lavish hospitality, but for a guest list that included both Richard Rogers and Marco Goldschmied who had not willingly been in the same room since the latter ...
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Hug or slug
Other highlights included Paul Morrell’s speech in which he compared working for fellow guest Sir Stuart Lipton to working in California: “You never know if you are going to get a hug or if it’s a drive-in shooting.”
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OpinionGreat minds
Thank you to BD reader Alex Weatherhead, who points out to Boots the similarity between Norman Foster’s luxury yacht (Boots March 30) and one designed by Alex’s father, Willie John Weatherhead, in East Lothian in the early 1950s.
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Tune in, turn on
Festival goers heading for Glastonbury this summer should not be surprised to spot the Landscape Institute among those setting up stall.
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OpinionRIBA: keep out of social politics
On the question of the RIBA deciding to embroil itself in social engineering (“Campaign to help minorities” News April 27), I believe it should leave well alone.
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Making changes
Architects for Change, the RIBA’s equality and diversity forum, has achieved a huge amount since its foundation in 2000, including the publication of an employment guide for architects, instigating returners’ courses for architects after career breaks (women and men), and curating the ongoing global DiverseCity exhibition celebrating the work of ...
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Beat class guilt
In a country where streets are used as an open rubbish bin, anything — be it the mayor’s 100 public spaces or the people’s 1,000 markets — is surely a step forward.