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Home making
Your leader (January 21) views the dumping of Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners’ Oxley Woods designs primarily through the prism of Modern
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Only way forward
Further to the restructuring of the RIBA and abolition of the RIBA Trust, members will have received an email from the president about statements made in the press
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Grads for all
I can’t commend Grads highly enough (“Newcastle Grads scheme sets pace for recruitment News January 21).
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Docklands vision
I don’t want to detract from Reg Ward’s great visionary qualities (News January 21).
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Window smear
Your feature on student buildings at Somerville College, Oxford (Technical January 14) shows a window unit section that is unbelievable
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OpinionDo Tottenham’s stadium plans betray London’s 2012 promise?
Yes, says Tessa Jowell, we need a world class athletics stadium; while Andrew Boff says it’s daft to risk everything for the track.
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OpinionA bloody good Hydeing
Perhaps it was a secret ingredient that Heston Blumenthal put in the “meat fruit” that he served to the guests at the opening of One Hyde Park …
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OpinionBy royal approval
Date October 1986Location Stirling, ScotlandSubject Prince of Wales In a week when the Prince of Wales secured planning for a new model community in Cumnock, we look back to 1986 when he opened Scotland’s first self-build scheme, in Stirling.The project was undertaken by the Colquhoun Street Residents Association, Rod Hackney ...
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OpinionModern methods stumble
The Oxley Woods u-turn only shows that prefabricated housing must be built on a bigger scale to be economically viable.
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OpinionCabe lock-in
While plans for a successor to Cabe may be inching forward, morale at the commission is taking a battering.
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OpinionAn insult to all who gave time
The creation of the RIBA Trust a few years ago really marked a positive sea change in the way the cultural side of architecture was to be cared for
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Stop the damage
The sudden abolition of the RIBA Trust is very difficult to justify. It has been one of the most successful parts of the RIBA.But it raises issues more important than just the discourteous way it was handled by the chief executive. The manner by which this “reorganisation” was forced through ...
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All in it together
You quote Richard MacCormac in the issue of 14 January as being worried “about the RIBA’s ability to maintain its scholarly commitments”
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OpinionSchool views
Our office is adjacent to the site of the Islamia school in Salusbury Road and I am a local resident
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No comparison
Reviewing Shoshan/Grootens’ Atlas of the Conflict: Israel-Palestine, Levent Kerimol suggests that “an equivalent look at Jewish ghettos, holocausts and pogroms, placed alongside the constrained conditions of Palestinian Arabs could raise an ironic hypocrisy in the present situation”.
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Border skirmish
Levent Kerimol is an unlikely character to review Atlas of the Conflict: Israel-Palestine.
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Out of hours
The assault on an employee of Bond Bryan reinforces the notion that the long hours culture in practice should not be tolerated.
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Get the picture
The illustration of Liam O’Connor’s design for the Bomber Command memorial planned for Green Park (Letters January 14), does not depict the real situation.
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Renovation means goodbye to Berlin
The history and chaos of the 20th century is embodied in the now-threatened Tacheles.
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OpinionWill the new Haymarket station be good for Edinburgh?
Yes, it’s a breath of fresh air, says Charles Dundas; while Richard Murphy feels the city has missed a great opportunity