More Comment – Page 136
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Opinion
Time for RIBA to name and shame
The Case for Space campaign (“RIBA launches housing space standards campaign”, bdonline September 14) is a welcome move.
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Photographers have no agenda
Perhaps the comfort that comes with success has distanced Tim Soar from the reality of the amateur (“Photographers need perspective”, Letters September 2).
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OpinionStirling etched on the memory
Pilgrims round Stirling & Gowan’s Leicester gem did not only include architects (Letters September 9).
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OpinionA developers’ plague on all our houses
This clumsy bid to streamline planning will bring a rash of crass, profitable ghettos
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OpinionDo architects need to look beyond the black turtleneck?
Yes, architects should express their own style says Dan Wood; while Cordula Rau says there are many ways to make the best of black
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OpinionReed's Hoxton fin-ish
The great and the good of architecture turned up last week to witness the handover speeches of RIBA presidents Ruth Reed and Angela Brady.
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OpinionBorn again
While Design Council Cabe is notable by its silence in the debate raging over planning reform, its former paymasters at CLG must be relieved.
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OpinionFighting talk
Neil Spiller may be pushing on with his plan to oust Greenwich University’s part-time staff in favour of Bartlett-educated full-timers but not fast enough, it seems.
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OpinionNo reservations
If you hoped to secure a night in the David Kohn and Fiona Banner designed Room for London when booking opened last week, you had to be quick off the mark.
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OpinionCurse of Norman
The well-respected Fast Company magazine turned its attention to Norman Foster last week.
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OpinionPolicy is only half the story
The government ignores the need for investment and training in its eagerness to strip the red tape from the planning system
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OpinionThe Hoxton effect
One of the first rules for a RIBA president is not to talk in metaphors or even riddles.
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RIBA’s attempts to be 'cool' make it irrelevant
In a week when the front pages of the right-wing national press have been filled with stories about planning legislation, is the RIBA lobbying a hostile government for a greater role for architects in delivering this “sustainable development”? No?
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Finance is the key to planning
Regarding proposed changes to planning rules, what’s needed is for the government to allow local authorities greater freedom to borrow money to finance infrastructure, acquire land and assemble development sites.
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An inside view of Leicester's gem
Twenty-odd years ago, I was shown round the Leicester Engineering Building (Inspiration, September 2) by the then professor of engineering.
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OpinionNever have so many owed so much...
Discussions about planning policy reform risk getting bogged down in emotive rhetoric
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OpinionShould the BBC be a patron of architecture?
Yes says Chris Brown, its position as a publicly funded body demands that it commissions good design; but Emma Boon feels Auntie should be more careful with the taxpayers’ pursestrings
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OpinionCorrespondent missing in action
Sadly, Guardian architecture correspondent Jonathan Glancey pulled out of Tuesday’s debate on the merits or otherwise of the architectural press because he “had to go to Ronchamp”.
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OpinionFinch on the Frontline
After Guardian architecture correspondent Jonathan Glancey pulled out of Tuesday’s debate on the merits of the architectural press, his place was taken by Paul Finch who joined journos and architects at the war reporters’ hideout the Frontline Club in Paddington.
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OpinionTripoli's burnt-out case
The Foreign Office might have scaled back its embassy-building ambitions for the time being but even its penny pinchers can’t deny that there’s one embassy project that is ripe for more than an austerity refurb: Tripoli.