More Comment – Page 149
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OpinionArchitecture bubble rapped
The great and good of British architecture gathered for the private view of the James Stirling exhibition at Tate Britain last Monday night – including Zaha Hadid, David Chipperfield, Jeremy Dixon, Charles Jencks, Peter St John and Nigel Coates.
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OpinionArb is a shining example
Boots was pleased to see that good old fashioned ethics are indeed a priority for the Arb.
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OpinionAmanda’s secret
The V&A’s competitions team went to great lengths to ensure no one discovered the winner of its Exhibition Road project before the official announcement.
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OpinionPut the boot in
Boots is alarmed by Clarks Shoes’ latest advertising campaign, which focuses on the adventures of four glamorously attired giantesses as they tour London’s recent architectural highlights.
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OpinionRelying on cheap labour
If the profession is to persuade society of its worth, it needs to get out of the low-pay habit
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Get behind your local centre
As a practising architect based in the North-east region and a board member of Northern Architecture, the architecture centre for the North-east, I wish to urge practices across the country to support their local architecture centres, which are facing challenges with the demise of their Cabe funding (News March 18).
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OpinionSchool rules
It is interesting that Oliver Wainwright has chosen to bring Catmose Campus into the debate on the role of standardisation in schools design (Buildings March 25).
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Global education
In our experience, registration boards are the main obstacle to realising any significant global portability for architectural qualifications (Letters March 18)
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Sounds as a pound
Despite dismissing accusations of “Legoland” homes (Letters March 25), John Slaughter of the Home Builders Federation must surely accept that hundreds of new housing developments look like Poundbury on a bad hair day.
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OpinionCrummy Brum
The situation in Birmingham is a fiasco (“Mecanoo’s library is disgraceful, says Madin” News March 25). The council don’t know what they’re doing and the fine citizens couldn’t care less what gets torn down and what gets thrown up in its place – a tragic vignette of what’s happened to ...
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Righting the copy
It was I, not AHMM, who took issue with Matthew Darbyshire’s unlawful use of my photographs (Boots March 25), as I would with any other commercial organisation attempting to profit from an unpaid use of copyright material.
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OpinionGold’s not all that glitters in the Gulf
Middle Eastern cities have more in common with UK metropolises than first meets the eye
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OpinionIs the RIBA’s action on low pay tough enough?
Insisting students are paid minimum wage is an important marker of change says RIBA president Ruth Reed; while Keith Tomlinson says the institute should have gone further
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OpinionMadge on the cadge
The mother of all PR operations kicked into gear last week as Madonna explained to the world why she would not be proceeding with the construction of an elite academy for girls in Malawi.
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OpinionIt was acceptable in the 80s
Osborne’s new enterprise zones reflect the misplaced belief that planning is the enemy of development
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OpinionLandlords like Gaddafi won’t drop rents
New squatting laws and benefit cuts aren’t going to make the private rental sector effective
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OpinionShould we turn run-down high streets into housing?
Yes, says Alex Morton, shopping and living patterns have changed; while Elizabeth Cox thinks they need to remain the hub of the community
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OpinionResidents are living proof
While I agreed with much of your leader “Local identity is the least of it” (March 11), it unfortunately concluded with the usual inaccurate criticisms levelled at housebuilders.