More Comment – Page 139
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OpinionTime is often the harshest critic
Completion dates may be the only things separating Stirlings from Carbuncles
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OpinionDoes the PQQ process stifle design innovation?
Yes, says Sarah Wigglesworth, the process discourages risktaking; but Steve McGuckin says it is up to clients to ask for the level of innnovation that they want
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OpinionWho’s the man?
Brad Pitt is filming in Glasgow later this summer and Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society director Stuart Robertson plans to seize the opportunity to secure the architecture-loving heartthrob as the organisation’s honorary patron.
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OpinionPie in the Sky
It was reported last week that Amanda Levete Architects’ proposals for an expansion of the BSkyB campus at Osterley would be proceeding.
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Clients need to recognise procurement potential
It is a shame that some clients overlook the flexibility that procurement based on points awarded to quality over price can offer (“c” News July 22).
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The constraints of flexibility
The concept of “smartie-tube” buildings for flexibility strikes again (“Minister favours ’sheds’ for hospitals” News July 22) – a building envelope into which you can put anything!
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Planning to fail in Southwark?
Last summer, New London Architecture hosted a debate that opposed the tower block and proposed the square as the appropriate building type for development in the capital.
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Community is key to Vauxhall
Some simple facts regarding Vauxhall Cross (Leader July 15): Vauxhall was identified as a site for tall buildings in 2002, but nothing was done about this until developers started working up schemes in 2006, when Lambeth commissioned some analysis from BDP.
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OpinionPraise where praise is due
How refreshing to read the words of an architect who so sublimely and fully understands her craft, who simply offers the work she and Robert Venturi did as a background for the lives of us all (“In defence of the Sainsbury Wing” Buildings July 22).
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OpinionGreen shoots
While it’s good to see plans for the former Commonwealth Institute in Kensington are coming on apace.
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OpinionBeach buddies
Boots was excited to hear that the friendship between Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano is holding up strong, as the pair escaped this week to sunnier climes on their annual holiday.
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OpinionThree halves
Arup Associates’ PR firm was keen to set try and set the record straight after Mike Beaven, the practice’s leading engineer who is also working on Qatar’s 2022 World Cup, floated the idea that Fifa could “stop a match and play three 30-minute thirds rather than two 45-minute halves” to ...
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OpinionBrick dropped
There were claims this week that hospitals will soon be resembling “sheds” and that the UK is too fond of bricks and mortar – presumably the sort that has in the past produced St Paul’s Cathedral, Westminster Abbey and Tower Bridge.
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OpinionAnimal magic in school funding debate
Tuesday’s all-too-brief Commons debate on Michael Gove’s school funding announcement couldn’t possibly compete with the fun and games happening metres away in a certain select committee.
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OpinionIs Liverpool Waters a threat to the city’s heritage?
Yes, says Chris Costelloe, it would overwhelm the entire city centre; while Joe Anderson says 100 years ago the Liver Building similarly divided opinion
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OpinionTicking all the wrong boxes
Hull University’s pre-qualification questionnaire shows how innovation is stifled in British architecture.
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OpinionArchitecture is dissolving into air
The tension between the permanent and the ephemeral is now central to all architecture
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OpinionBloated icons and dreary sheds go head to head in the race for the Carbuncle Cup
Clunky slabs and botched “landmarks” battle it out to win the coveted title of worst building of the year.
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OpinionHadid's Riverside transport museum fails to tell the heroic story of Glasgow
Ten years ago I produced the masterplan for Glasgow’s transport museum.
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OpinionGarden cities are not the answer
We need to look at history to advise us on the wisdom of development potentials.