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Solid example
Congratulations to Ken Shuttleworth for attacking the tired cliche of “glass box” buildings, which are as boring as they are inefficient.
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Shooting target
Understandably, residents and landlords on the Aylesbury and Packington estates see demolition and redevelopment as an attractive quick fix.
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Deeplish revisited
The government has aired proposals to demolish thousands of houses in the North-west (News February 11).
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Misinformation
I would like to make a point relating to your article, “Salisbury quits Arb board” (News February 18).
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Shaky concept
You’re having a right laugh this week, aren’t you (How we did IT February 18)? “Mathew Emmett’s aim is to integrate physical environments with ‘psycho-archi-ventions’.”
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Wonky wheels on PFIs trolley
An alien arriving in southern England this month would probably be pretty impressed with the architecture produced by the private finance initiative.
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OpinionConcrete Boots
Good vibrationsLast week, we learnt that architects are highly desirable as dates. So perhaps it should come as no surprise that an architecture student has built a model of an orgasm.Ronnie Gensler, from Columbia University in the US, “studied, subdivided and finally modelled an orgasm” in the form of an ...
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Charles frets over health
Prince Charles spoke at the Royal College of Physicians this week on the environment’s impact on health. Here is an edited version of his speech:It is imperative that we apply the notion of healing not only to ourselves, but also to our built and natural environments that have been so ...
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Start listening to the kids
Sometimes it’s difficult to know how much responsibility to give children. Let them set their own school lunch menus and society’s efforts to combat obesity would sink quickly in a sea of fizzy drink and chips. Besides, that’s a job for Jamie Oliver,
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Historic influence
What was your criteria for selecting the “role models” for aspiring women architects?It does not seem to reflect a representative cross-section of the profession or areas of work where women are particularly successful.In my experience, a great proportion of women architects in the UK work and have achieved excellence in ...
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In need of support
I am a female sole practitioner having worked for many years in local authorities. Men are not usually very supportive of women in the office or on the site, and many women struggle to be one of the boys. It took me many years to realise that builders didn't think ...
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No job for anyone
I am baffled why women, or men for that matter, would want to increase their representation in architecture. This is not a gender issue: architecture is a lousy business model and with the poorest ratio of creative to production time. Zaha is exceptional and has made untold sacrifices in her ...
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OpinionTalkbox: Riccardo Marini
Mackintosh-trained architect Marini is Edinburgh’s design leader. He has been working with Terry Farrell to police the design quality of the city’s development, including the 18,000-home Leith Docks given the green light this week.
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OpinionSizing up the Supercity
In a video playing at his Supercities exhibition in Manchester, Will Alsop says he is “interested in the city we don’t know”. But is the visiting public interested in what he has conjured up for a city of 15 million stretching from Liverpool to Hull?
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OpinionBunny peculiar
Last week, a 3m-high fluffy blue puppet, half rabbit half alien, perched outside a signal box in Shoreditch.
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The young need a land of opportunity
The nervousness in official circles about the chance of a successful roll-out for John Prescott’s Sustainable Communities Plan just won’t go away.
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Throwing stones at those in glass houses
Wake up all you architectural glass junkies, it’s time for a change.
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OpinionConcrete Boots
Take heartFor all those lonely architects who spent a sad Valentine’s Day in front of the drawing board with only a Pot Noodle to love, fear not. The dating agency for professionals, Drawing Down The Moon, has found that architects are among the most desired people out there. In the ...