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Opinion
Give credit for Vauxhall plans
The mayor’s planning team has laboured hard to produce a planning framework for the Vauxhall, Nine Elms, Battersea opportunity area.
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OpinionCarbuncle Cup is business as usual
The sheer breadth of what’s on display should shame all those involved.
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OpinionBim raises issues of continuity
What happens in the bim process if the project is shelved or taken over?
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OpinionThis Stirling shortlist favours the safe and generic
The usual suspects are once again honoured at the expense of truly stirring architecture.
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OpinionShould we build a new generation of garden cities?
Yes, says Emma Cariaga, Development director of Land Securities. No, says Kate Houghton from the Campaign to Protect Rural England.
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OpinionWhere is the masterplan?
Design Council Cabe’s efforts to cobble together a joint strategy for Vauxhall Cross are too little too late
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OpinionBeware starchitects bearing gifts
Much-vaunted showpiece schemes can often become a front for sneaking bad buildings in under the radar
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OpinionHeading off
The RCA’s Nigel Coates was sent off in style last week with a lavish party at the College, attended by hundreds of former students and well-wishers.
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OpinionThe name game
Meanwhile rumours rage about who will take Coates’s place, with everyone from Tony Fretton to Thomas Heatherwick in the frame.
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OpinionSporting chance
The great 2012 ticketing fiasco has claimed another victim with the former chief of the Olympic Delivery Authority, David Higgins, revealing he’s missed out on the opening and closing ceremonies.
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OpinionPillow talk
English Heritage chief Simon Thurley, who lives in the historic Clifton House near King’s Lynn, told the Sunday Times that before he and his wife Anna climb into bed every night, they vacuum the sheets.
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OpinionThurley fails to list city gems
Speaking about the decision not to list Broadgate (News June 24), Simon Thurley is reported as saying “The City… has just one listed building from the [post-war] period: [former Financial Times HQ] Bracken House.”
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OpinionFoundations of a solid career
How familiar it was to read Michael Gold’s response (Life Classes, July 1) to the question “What got you started?” (“School and parents saying there was no future in being an artist”). I embarked on a lifetime of architecture in the same way.
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OpinionThe missing link in cladding
Your potted history of cladding systems (CPD July 8) omits a critical pioneer: Michael Pearson of Charles B Pearson Son & Partners who designed Burne House telecommunications centre just off the Westway in London.
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OpinionLet’s cultivate our garden cities
The lessons from garden cities could apply to communities in large cities as well as new towns (“Give us a new generation of garden cities!” bdonline July 11).
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OpinionShuttleworth is not alone in working with others
Reading Steven Johnson, especially his latest book, it becomes clear that, in science, the concept of the Eureka “moment” is mistaken. The same must be true of the lone-author notion in architecture, at least for large complex projects (“Row over Gherkin’s ’creator’” News July 8).
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OpinionBorder skirmish
Nicholas Grimshaw is unimpressed with Cecil Balmond and Charles Jencks’ new sculpture at Gretna, he told an audience on London’s South Bank this week.
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OpinionGenius can be a team effort
As the row over 30 St Mary Axe shows, building authorship is usually the result of a shared culture