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Mutual support
Ten years ago architects showed how much they valued registration and protection of title. After an epic struggle they persuaded Parliament that protection of title should be retained and the interests of consumers protected with the formation of Arb.
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Old fashioned
Your caption for Benson Forsyth's Nottingham Scheme "the height of the scheme reflects the 19th century buildings" beggars belief! Am I missing something here ?
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Architecture falls from top of the class
It was only a matter of time before the government's ambitious city academy programme was dismantled.
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Design codes: Yeah but no but... no
TV's Little Britain has given us a humourous tour of our landscape and the characters that inhabit it, with their social and cultural diversity. How do we respond to them when deciding how to develop new housing and townscapes? Can we accommodate our idiosyncrasies and celebrate our real little Britain?
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OpinionConcrete Boots
Money problemsMutterings have re-started over Will Alsop's chairmanship of the Architecture Foundation, which meets in a few weeks to discuss how to handle his latest career move. It's not simply that Alsop rarely shows up to trustees' meetings, it's the slightly awkward problem of having the foundation's public face fundraising ...
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Ian Martin
My friend Dusty Penhaligon the ‘conservactionist' is suing the Guardian for satirical libel
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Let Archigram go abroad - and online
While you can't blame Archigram for wanting to cash in, there is something rather pathetic about the archives of one of the 20th century's most important English architects being hawked around town like an explorer's booty.
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Quiet diplomacy grabs no headlines
It is the lot of advisory bodies, especially those funded by government, to be on the receiving end of accusations that they are either not toeing the line by slavishly praising the latest government policy initiative, or that they are supine recipients of taxpayer largesse, content to do the government's ...
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Ian Martin
We all agree there'd be no harm in running events under the title Islamophilia, say, or Rockin' Mosques
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Ian Martin
It's all very well for us, but whither the tell-tailed tit, the speckled mudpecker, the downy dunhead?
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Free regeneration from bureaucracy
Cynics claim English Partnerships is the organisation that John Prescott turns to when he's got an idea.
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Why Part L is set to empower architects
Building legislation in the UK is finally coming into step with what the scientists have been telling us since the 1970s: that global climate change is unavoidable and fossil fuel supplies are in demise.
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The eight-week rule hinders good design
Perhaps it isn't surprising that so many architects moan about the planning system. You can't legislate for good design.
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Virgin sacrifices young design talent
"Don't rock the system," pleaded one successful architect, worried that Building Design's story on the way a young practice has been treated by one of the UK's most successful companies will be a warning to other clients not to use young firms at all.
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Tub Haagendas
Monday I present some collected material in the form of a "decoy lecture" at the Institute of Cultural Ballistics.
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Invest in people and everyone benefits
Most professions rely on a single resource: staff or human resources - although I prefer to use the word people. That applies as much to architects as any others. We do not run businesses that are capital-intensive so no need for big buildings, plant and raw materials. What we need ...