More Comment – Page 128
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OpinionIsi Metzstein remembered
“We wanted to strengthen the vocabulary of modernism wherever it was necessary.”
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Opinion2012: you heard it here first
Save yourself the bother of reading the news over the coming year, Boots has the highlights for you right now
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OpinionEnd of a once-great practice
YRM’s heyday was long gone, so what does RMJM stand to gain from its purchase?
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OpinionWhat’s wrong with managed decline?
As the Thatcher government archives show, the fortunes of cities are not easy to predict
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OpinionShould we be listing more late 20th century buildings?
Yes, says Jack Hale, listing relies too much on economic viability; while Francis Terry says we should wait a century to see if they are truly great
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OpinionToo overawed to criticise Rem’s Rothschild clichés
I was disappointed by the easy ride that your publication gave to OMA’s new Rothschild HQ in London (Buildings December 9).
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OpinionMake an exhibit of Battersea
Many years ago, when I was a tutor at the Leicester School of Architecture, one of the design projects on which some of my students worked at my instigation was the conversion of the remains of the badly damaged Battersea Power Station (Debate December 9) into a major exhibition centre ...
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OpinionCorbusier ceiling conundrum
Your article about Le Corbusier’s Marseille Unité d’Habitation (Inspiration December 2) says that “many of the 337 units are dual aspect… and most have double-height living rooms”.
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OpinionRobots question is academic
The key question at the heart of the debate between practice and academia referred to in your article (“What have robots got to do with architecture?” News analysis December 16) is not “what is architecture?” but “what is an architect?”.
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OpinionDoes Rogers live up to his good words?
Richard Rogers’s oeuvre is a masterclass in separating principles from practice
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OpinionFortune favours the brave
This year’s World Architecture report makes a compelling case for UK firms to look abroad for opportunities
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OpinionShould architects be looking forward to 2012?
Yes, says Kathryn Findlay, the Olympic site is a mine of pride and opportunity; but Noble Francis says the economic forecast leaves little room for optimism
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OpinionSingle minded housing
Google search reveals firm’s knowledge gap and why Sidell Gibson’s boss isn’t afraid to return to Libya
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OpinionWhat links Brady’s winner to architecture?
The animation in Kibwe Tavares’s RIBA President’s Silver Medal-winning project Robots of Brixton is well done. But what does it have to do with architecture?
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Opinion
Healthy markets thrive on choice
Ellis Woodman missed a crucial insight from the Steen Eiler Rasmussen quote in his leader castigating architects for employing bold innovation in housing that then doesn’t get reflected in sale values.
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You can't build on cynicism
It has to be good news when a government document says “we know that the quality, sustainability and design of housing are just as important as how many homes are built”. To hear that at a time when supply is at a post-war low is particularly gratifying.
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A lesson in building morale
Some years ago I had the pleasure of a conducted tour of Hermann Hertzberger’s Centraal Beheer building in Apeldoorn while I was a student at Hull.
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OpinionBarking up the wrong tree
The description of Peter Palumbo’s Alsatian as “fearsome” (Archive December 9)
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OpinionMoralities and the market
In times of upheaval, OMA and Hertzberger are offering us a choice of ways forward