More Comment – Page 118
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OpinionHeatherwick, the architect?
Ellis Woodman finds Heatherwick’s V&A show to be full of engagingly daft ideas
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OpinionSchools muddle is a huge failure
I found Michal Cohen’s (Debate May 25) defence of Michael Gove’s school-building strategy a rather weak apology, especially compared with the straightforward account by Yasmin Shariff.
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OpinionBim overlay is for everyone
I would like to clarify a few points raised by architects and readers of BD regarding the RIBA’s new Bim Overlay to the Plan of Work (Letters May 25).
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OpinionKensington a right royal mess
Last bank holiday (miserable and rainy) my wife and I decided to cheer ourselves up by visiting the newly refurbished Kensington Palace to check out quite how the £12 million had been spent (Buildings May 18).
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OpinionCompetitions do test design skill
Your leader (May 25) on why competitions won’t solve procurement problems for small practices completely misses the point, which is that the thing that differentiates a useful architect from a not-so-good one is that the former knows the trick of using design to solve a client’s problems.
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OpinionTime to change the guard at Buckingham Palace
Sixty years of regal indifference to architecture have left a rather doubtful legacy
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OpinionWhy leftists should look back in anger
Yes, the left is lacking an urban vision, but the past few decades have left it with few means to develop one
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OpinionA marriage of convenience?
Not all practices can move easily into a foreign country, but Pringle Brandon found a way
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OpinionWill Elizabeth II leave a worthy built legacy?
As the Queen’s Jubilee approaches, Piers Gough and Francis Terry square up over the current monarch - is she an architectural friend or foe?
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OpinionPavilion fails test of usefulness
I am sorry, John McAslan, but good architecture is not all about revelation and innovation (Debate May 18).
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OpinionHodder lacks the glamour needed
The RIBA needs to actively solicit a president who will satiate the media’s desire for glamour, celebrity and sound bites.
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OpinionIs school choice unattainable?
Given that the green paper on special educational needs and disability states that disabled children and those with SEN can have the right to seek a place at any school how can the government possibly build schools for this reduced amount? (Leader May 18)
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OpinionRIBA bim overlay missed the point
Why were no small or medium-sized practices consulted for the RIBA’s bim overlay for the Plan of Work? (News May 18)
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OpinionArchitect fathers need flexibility
It is very interesting to (finally) read an article from a new father describing the difficulties of combining an architectural career with helping to raise a young family (Speaking Out May 18).
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OpinionNul points for heritage streamlining
The problems listed buildings face are not to do with legislation but the lack of cash
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OpinionWhere are the left’s urban visionaries?
Urban farming and pop-up hipster urbanism alone do not bode well for a serious progressive architectural vision
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OpinionCash for PR not pavilions, Peabody mob & engineering a RMJM inconvenience
Cash for PR not the British pavilion, the Peabody Housing trust raises eyebrows and Dubai engineers hit back at RMJM
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OpinionDo you have confidence in Gove’s school building strategy?
Yes says Michal Cohen, there is a collective will to make the programme a success; but Yasmin Shariff believes the government shows few signs of being an intelligent client
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OpinionCompetitions won’t solve procurement problems
Public sector tender turnover requirements are the real issue, and the institute could learn from the GLA’s framework