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OpinionOverambition has blighted Battersea Power Station
If the London landmark is to avoid demolition it needs more gradual redevelopment
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OpinionMultiple design schemes could be the key for Battersea Power Station
Architects will find it difficult to create a successful single solution
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OpinionAre designs to spruce up temporary classrooms a waste of money?
Yes, says Robin Nicholson, pupils deserve permanent buildings; but Dominic Cullinan sees adaptation as the key to schools’ success
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OpinionWhy Welwyn still works
I share Gillian Darley’s scepticism over the curious relationship between the government and garden cities (Opinion April 13).
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OpinionDoes regulation stunt education?
I interpret Garth Hoskins’ aside (“Architectural education should be tougher” Life class March 30) as being about increasing quality in the profession via education and I would go further to include established practitioners in this.
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OpinionBeware the desire to spruce
Your front page article “Architects to spruce up pre-fabs” (News April 13) brought back memories for my practice.
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OpinionIs the Shard a tour de force?
The Shard is a landmark building and will be recognised as such and be a part of London long after we have all gone to the next world.
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OpinionStand up to the knights, Titanic woes and L'Elephant de la Bastille
Standing up to architects with knighthoods, a Titanic scandal and Napoleon’s abandoned bronze elephant
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OpinionRing road that helps maintain Belfast's ghettos
Hackett Hall McKnight’s Mac may be raising the city’s architecture standards, but it is inaccessible to many of its citizens
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OpinionThe Shard points the way for London’s splintered skyline
The next mayor needs to provide a convincing vision that connects the forthcoming rash of skyscrapers along the Thames
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OpinionGarden cities that will never bloom
The coalition’s adoption of the garden city ideal strays a long way from its origins
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OpinionWe must cultivate our garden cities
UK architects are building exemplary communities overseas, but at home we lack the political will to put them into practice
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OpinionAll the president’s men
David Adjaye on Obama’s top table, Trenton Oldfield’s watery urbanism and hacking the Shard
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Look to Asia for opportunities
It seems unfair to criticise Angela Brady for trying to assist the profession in finding more work in Asia (“Why go to China when the answers are closer to home?” Leader March 30).
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Procurement has to change totally
The issue on procurement (News April 5) is really very simple. The more complex the process, the larger the organisation and the more removed the client is from the purchasing — the more expensive it gets.
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OpinionWill the Shard be listed in 30 years’ time?
Yes, says Peter Murray, it demonstrates an innovative typology; while Ken Shuttleworth thinks it’s still too early to tell
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Biennale pledge makes no sense
David Chipperfield’s claim that his Venice Biennale mix of architects covers some sort of “common ground” (News March 30) is a classic example of a rhetoric gap.
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Spare a thought for those in Spain
The UK workload may have declined (Leader March 30) but what about the 90% drop or more suffered by Spanish architects since 2008?
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VAT plans ignore heritage needs
Cutting VAT relief on alterations to listed buildings (News March 23) is so obviously the opposite to what is required that the lack of understanding by the politicians in charge is difficult to understand.