More Comment – Page 142
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OpinionSummit wrong at the Design Summit?
If any doubts remain about the low regard in which the present government holds architects they were surely put to rest at last Thursday’s Design Summit, staged by the Design Council.
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OpinionRoads to nowhere
Glasgow’s future lies in its 19th century grid plan not its 1960s motorways
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OpinionCarmody Groarke’s rock is worth the weight
If the traffic in London proves particularly slow-going at the start of next week, be assured that it is for a worthwhile cause.
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Loss of plot ratio controls denies man’s need of light
The elimination of plot ratio limits on developments in the City means that any building designed in conformity with the former limits, however good, is liable for redevelopment since all can now be seen as under-using their sites.
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OpinionDetail is the star at Lyric Belfast
How refreshing to see a building that combines care, sophistication and good neighbourliness (Lyric Theatre, Belfast Buildings June 17).
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Civilised society will back Shelter
Having been involved in the planning and design of state-aided public housing since 1945, I totally support Campbell Robb of Shelter (Debate June 10) in his case for more council housing.
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Too much effort given to too few
Ed Hollis’s epiphany on ordinary buildings (“Too much novelty leaves us nowhere” Opinion June 17) struck a chord with me. Over the past decade a disproportionate amount of architectural thought and effort seems to have gone into a few special buildings at the expense of the bulk of everyday ones ...
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Listing will boost loved Hallfield
As a long-standing resident of the Hallfield Estate, I had to respond to D Ingram (Letters June 17).
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Tory policies are costing us dear
The removal of architects from local and central government was a false economy which was predicted.
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Pylons embody our electric dreams
Infrastructure is part of our past, present and future, whether we like it or not — so let’s make the best of it
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OpinionShould part I be optional for architecture students?
Yes, says Robert Mull, the current system has passed its sell-by date; while David Gloster says parts I and II have a symbiotic relationship
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OpinionEncore, Boris
Talking at Base, London’s low carbon economy conference on Wednesday, mayor Boris Johnson began by announcing: “You can recycle everything in London but not speeches.”
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OpinionDoha connection
At the Chelsea Barracks planning meeting on Monday, one local resident told Boots that she had written to the Emir of Qatar – copying in Prince Charles – urging him to return to the drawing board, again.
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OpinionDress to protest
Boots would like to salute two objectors who interrupted a trip to Ascot last week to briefly chain themselves to railings outside the Chelsea Barracks site.
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OpinionBack to basics
Will Foster & Partners find a suitable candidate for its communications manager vacancy?
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OpinionCould tough times spell the end of Archaos?
There is a sense that students want a national student body with a wider membership
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OpinionFifth columnist
Following a BD blog on why Tories hate architects, a lone Conservative backbencher contacted the BD office to confess he loves architects – well at least one architect, the woman he is currently dating who he described as “very attractive and sweet”.
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Broader range of council tenants may end stigma
The assertion by Richard Wellings of the Institute of Economic Affairs that “subsidising” housing is as dangerous as other aspects of the welfare state (Debate 10 June) – presumably the education and health services on which most of us rely – in breeding “welfare dependency” shows an inadequate level of ...
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OpinionIt's in the post
The new Liverpool Museum, which opens next week, refuses to confirm whether Kim Nielsen of 3XN – whose firm was kicked off the job in 2007 – has an invite to the opening party.
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OpinionLearn from experience
Trainees are becoming ever more flexible as they seek opportunities. Our assessment system should do the same