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Opinion
Snipers harm us all
I despair when I read an article such as that in BD (News September 30), in which you report on the Association of Consultation Architects’ criticism of the Architects Registration Board.Having spoken to a large number of architects I am encouraged in that I am certainly not alone in my ...
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Turn off the style
It is very disturbing to hear that planners in the Lake District are taking a stylistic stance in promoting “bold modern design”, by which they mean “something that is recognisably of today” — the tired old mantra of modernism.
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Lost in translation
The conclusion to Rab Bennetts’ Soapbox column on 30 September was edited to reinforce his plea for more considered modern architecture from UK architects working abroad.
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Sorry London, but the Brits are coming
In one respect, there’s something deliciously contrary about the British Council’s decision to ignore London’s architecture at its exhibition for next year’s Venice Biennale.
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The mistake of the mega-practice
I have developed a form of Tourette’s syndrome whereby the misuse of the words “innovation” and “creativity” results in convulsions and machine-gun obscenities. Life has got harder (and the office noisier) recently.
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Toyo Taverso
Ian Martin is away. This week’s diarist is the influential designer and polemicist Toyo Taverso, winner of the 2005 RIPBA Real Gold Medal for Top-Quality Architecture.
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Task force rifts reflect the real world
What should we make of the claims of internal divisions within the Urban Task Force as it prepares to issue its progress report on Prescott and Miliband’s communities plan?
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Speak up now and save the young ones
There has always been a problem with the history of the immediate past, particularly with architecture.
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Steele yourselves
New Architecture Association head Brett Steele is using his first term in charge to knock the building about a bit.
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Havana great time
The entire office of Squire & Partners has just come back from a four-day trip to Cuba.
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Rockin’ to BB71
There is a myth that lots of cheesy 1980s pop bands are still ekeing out a living in the music industry because they are, to quote the overused expression, “big in Japan”.
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Blot-bashing back
The infamous Carbuncle Award in Scotland has been relaunched after a four-year absence and is still unafraid of controversy.
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John Prattsock
I like to call it the ‘wow factor’ — it’s what makes you stop in front of a bit of architecture and say ‘bloody hell’
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Not ready for the Jurassic graveyard
I doubt many are surprised by Bob White’s report (“Profession takes a beating”, News September 30) and the apparent lack of any innovative thinking in the industry at large.
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Time to take sides
As part of a government-funded organisation, Constructing Excellence chairman Bob White should above all understand the fundamental creative value of architectural design instead of attempting to bury it under the groaning weight of the construction industry and so-called mega practices.
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Minding the gap
The RIBA is to be congratulated in asking Bob White — an architect, but better known as former head of construction and project management firm Mace — to chair its Constructive Change panel (News September 30).
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The future’s bright
The Constructing Excellence report was commissioned from Bob White by the RIBA practice committee as part of its Constructive Change agenda.