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OpinionStirling decision stuck in the past
How disappointing it was to see Zaha Hadid’s Evelyn Grace Academy win this year’s Stirling Prize.
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OpinionMissing the point of parks
Giles Dolphin, assistant director of planning for the Greater London Authority, writing in defence of One Hyde Park (Letters September 16) stated that the building: “if visible above the trees would have improved views from Hyde Park on account of its architectural excellence”.
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OpinionRykwert needs no more gilding
Joseph Rykwert’s Chelsea housing is well saved, but using it to prove that he can design as well as think (“Top names back Rykwert for medal”, News September 23) does not enhance his claim for the RIBA Gold Medal.
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The birth of the Memphis Group?
May I claim, a little shamefacedly — like Spike Milligan on his part in Hitler’s downfall — my place at the origins of postmodernism?
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OpinionFor your consideration
It was surely no coincidence that Hopkins Architects chose the week before the Stirling Prize to lumber readers of the AJ with a 104-page supplement on its Olympic Velodrome.
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OpinionPrize Charlie
A last minute replacement was needed on the Stirling Prize judging panel for Lene Tranberg, architect at Lundgaard & Tranberg after one of the practice’s projects made the RIBA awards midlist, creating a potential conflict of interest.
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OpinionRed or dead
Ivor Smith, Park Hill’s original architect and a guest of Urban Splash on Saturday evening, was reminiscing over the days when he used to go drinking with Berthold Lubetkin, in whose memory RIBA awards its annual international prize.
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OpinionCanning it
In austerity Britain, RIBA planned this year’s Stirling prize jamboree rather well.
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OpinionA considerably better school than Maxxi is an art gallery
I can’t say that I shared the widespread incredulity at the choice of Evelyn Grace Academy as winner of this year’s Stirling. The prize has surely long since lost its credibility as a reward for architectural merit.
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OpinionWangari Maathai
Africa’s leading female environmentalist held lessons for us all, says John McAslan
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OpinionAn architectural ceasefire?
The debates over working under Gaddafi are now done, but what about the future for the practices that are heading back to Libya?
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Planning reform must lift housebuilding standards
The RIBA’s discussion over housing space standards will not improve the standard of housebuilding (“Architects pan RIBA’s home space campaign” News September 23).
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True meaning of sustainability
Richard Rogers’ objection to the planning bill (“Rogers ready to fight planning bill in Lords” News September 23) is absolutely right.
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OpinionStratford inherits dystopian vision
Oliver Wainwright is rightly critical of the appalling developments in Stratford’s High Street (Buildings September 23).
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Rhowbotham's view is academic
Kevin Rhowbotham (Debate, September 23) is subject to a long standing trend where insecurity in academies makes professors position themselves as righteous moralists fighting for higher ideals against the dark outside world. Read Hermann Hesse’s The Glass Bead Game.
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Trusts can solve listings threat
One interesting solution to the reported threat to thousands of listed buildings (“New risk to listed buildings” News September 23) might be to start handing over ownership to community trusts.
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OpinionA home where the buffalo don’t roam
A painful modernisation scheme will see Ahmedabad’s riverside slums emptied and concreted over
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OpinionIs design of Britain’s public housing over-regulated?
Yes, says David Prichard, there are too many sources of guidance; while Robert Klaschka thinks we need greater consistency
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OpinionAngela Brady goes east
Given the choice of chairing a session on housing at the Labour party conference or going to the UIA conference in Tokyo …
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OpinionRIBA council cosies up
Angela Brady’s first RIBA council meeting, as Boots has reported before, will take place not in the council chamber but in the Wren room on the sixth floor.