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Opinion
Competition was steamed up
The design competition for the Windermere Steamboat Museum (BD October 28) seems to have produced a first: five entrants with one architectural idea between them. This is the result of the RIBA’s severely flawed “design” competition system.
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In denial over fire safety concerns
Just to put Boots right (“Out of the frame” November 4) I will of course be attending the afternoon session of the UK Timber Frame Association’s conference even though my invitation to act as keynote speaker and to attend the morning closed session to stakeholders has been withdrawn.
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OpinionOut of the timber frame
One person who won’t be at the Timber Frame Association’s conference this week is the veteran building safety campaigner Sam Webb.
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OpinionThe living dead
Boots joined a heaving crowd at the AA last week for the launch of the Radical Postmodernism issue of AD — the discussion of this un-dead architectural movement appropriately held on Halloween.
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OpinionOne of a kind
Boots was delighted to learn this week that Parliament contains at least one fan of post-war architecture.
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OpinionIt’s time to foster change
Foster’s radical proposal for the transport system could be the kickstart the industry needs
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OpinionDoes London need the proposed floating river park?
Yes, says Daniel Moylan, the plans are essential to revitalise the river front; but Tom Holbrook warns that the designs could erode the public realm
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OpinionWhat a guy
Boots would like to extend its warmest congratulations to Ted and Roz Cullinan who will be spending bonfire night partying with friends at the Royal Academy in celebration of their 50 years of marriage.
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OpinionWhat grounds are there for dissent?
As protests fill the headlines, laws about quasi-public space leave little room for manoeuvre
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We should be diplomatic about our embassies
It’s good to see the Foreign & Commonwealth Office finally getting over the loss of its 19th century empire and recognising its much diminished role (“Anger as US firms chosen for embassy framework” News October 28).
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Heygate still has a long way to go
Lend Lease held a consultation workshop on Saturday to discuss the new Heygate masterplan.
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How to design an art school
I was one of the first students to study in Casson/Cadbury-Brown’s Royal College of Art buildings in the early sixties.
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OpinionHow Jim fixed Stoke Mandeville
I noticed this tribute to the late Jimmy Savile from a Keith Walters of Norwich on a BBC website:
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OpinionMurky past
Boris Johnson’s architectural adviser Daniel Moylan is taking no prisoners as he campaigns for Gensler’s proposed London River Park.
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OpinionThe wheel turns
Boots is delighted to hear that the spat between Marks Barfield and Graham Morrison is over
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OpinionToo many Cooks?
One of the more unusual items to land in Boots’ inbox this week was from the Australian arts collective The Adam and Eve Projects
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OpinionSocks appeal
Rem Koolhaas and his fellow OMA partners subjected themselves to two hours of group psychoanalysis in front of a sold-out audience at the Barbican on Tuesday.
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OpinionThe Di is cast
Headhunters working for Design Council Cabe have been asked to find “a go-getting and entrepreneurial” replacement for Di Haigh who announced her resignation as director of the organisation this week.
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OpinionShould protesters have the right to occupy public space?
Yes, says Anna Minton, though this protest illustrates the City’s lack of public space; while Tom Ironside says demonstrations shouldn’t prevent others from going about their business