More Comment – Page 138
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OpinionHerzog & de Meuron under the radar
It must be a sign of how tough times are – Herzog & de Meuron has finally seen fit to launch a website.
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OpinionHowells' wedding party
Boots would like to congratulate Glenn Howells, who is tying the knot next month in Edgbaston.
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OpinionShould the Kingdom Tower be built?
Yes says Adrian Smith, founding partner at Adrian Smith & Gordon Gill Architecture, designer of the Kingdom Tower. No says Bill Dunster, founder of Zedfactory.
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OpinionWill riots reshape our cities?
The past week’s events highlight the fact that a large minority is still excluded from the urban renaissance dream.
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OpinionCabe needs a peaceable chairman, not Paul Finch
When a public servant who has responsibility for running an impartial organisation, trusted by the public to make even-handed decisions on deeply controversial matters, has himself become part of the controversy, he can no longer do his job.
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Holes in Swiss school argument
Fees to study architecture in Switzerland might be cheaper, but I reckon that when you factor in the cost of living, you’re going to probably break even.
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Why do we need so many sheds?
Francis Maude is not the only minister to favour sheds (“Minister favours ’sheds’ for hospitals” News July 22).
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OpinionSainsbury faults not just stylistic
Richard Pain dismisses criticism of the National Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing as “petty stylistic squabbling” (Letters July 29), but the building’s faults are not due to its rather silly po-mo styling alone.
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OpinionEvery little independent victory helps
Modern or traditional – if a design is at odds with the local ethos it makes no difference
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OpinionIs Cabe prejudiced against traditional architecture?
Yes, says Ptolemy Dean, it is dominated by modernists; while Francis Terry says it is only opposed to bad traditionalism
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OpinionNord ignored over Wexford County Council headquarters
The recent publication of the Wexford County Council headquarters building has caused much consternation at the offices of Nord, the practice that won the competition for the building in 2007 and subsequently went on to build it.
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OpinionFarewell, Rupert
The litany of resignations from News International mounts by the day – Tom Dyckhoff has quit his job as the Times’s architecture critic.
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OpinionFuchsia shock
Boots is keen to hear that Angela Brady’s plans at the RIBA don’t end with new policies and restructures.
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OpinionTough at the top
The announcement that US practice Adrian Smith & Gordon Gill Architecture is designing the 1km-high Kingdom Tower in Saudi Arabia attracted plenty of headlines
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OpinionThe people who look like buildings
Thanks to Paul Mckay who sent in this picture of a fellow passenger on a recent internal flight in China.
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OpinionToddler power
MVRDV may have intended its Balancing Barn as a provocation but it didn’t count on the ferocious reaction of one recent guest.
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OpinionBiting the hand...
Michael Gove’s entry in the register of members’ interests, has been under intense scrutiny this week, revealing as it does the extent of his financial links with News International.
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OpinionTime to play the long game
The success of the Olympic project is about far more than next year’s three-week extravaganza