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OpinionRich raises question of trust
A debate on the wisdom of axing the RIBA Trust would provide a welcome focus on the institute eroding cultural activities
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Plutocrats or squatters? Your choice
Two towers in different cities give architects a glimpse of the future.
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OpinionIs the RIBA imperiling its cultural offering?
It risks being subsumed by the RIBA’s business interests, argues George Ferguson; while Ruth Reed says the change will just simplify the existing structures.
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OpinionChinese tower is the height of flattery
Last week the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa tower in Dubai, enjoyed its first birthday.
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OpinionRedesigning the review process
In the past a “design review” typically meant that a panel of professionals from fields such as architecture, planning, landscape design, and development would scrutinise a proposal, and then advise the local authority or developer on how it might be improved.
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Staying on track
Grimshaw’s proposed high-speed rail connection between Birmingham and Manchester (News January 7) is not going to be very attractive for passengers if the line is mostly in cuttings or tunnels.
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OpinionTowers of Babel
With regard to Tower Hamlets Council’s refusal to grant planning permission to the Limeharbour development (“Council blasts Limeharbour plans” News January 7), one can agree with the arguments of lack of 106 agreement and possibly affordable housing volume.
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OpinionA fitting tribute?
The design of the £5 million memorial to Bomber Command with its irrelevant and inappropriate 85m-long classical colonnade, more suited to Berlin in the thirties, along the South side of Piccadilly, was granted planning permission against the recommendations of the City of Westminster’s own planning officers.
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Join the protest
For 12 months, I and the Friends of The Green Park and other intelligent and caring souls have tried to convince the authorities and Bomber Command Association to withdraw from causing irreparable harm to Green Park.
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OpinionTime to take a wider view
BD’s expanded coverage of overseas news reflects a changing market for architects
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Riba needs to reach out to the public
The demise of the Riba Trust risks ruling the institute out of crucial public debate.
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OpinionTalk to people who know
Oddly, the two bids for the design review (“Riba could usurp Cabe in bid to run design reviews” 17 December 2010) are both from national bodies claiming to be capable of acting locally.
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Begging to differ
Ruth Reed was mistaken to claim that Cabe has not been involved with villages or small urban areas.
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Rhubarb listing
There are very few true brickwork forcing sheds left now in the “rhubarb triangle”, and even fewer timber ones, but the brick ones can be seen sometimes in passing.
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OpinionSteeling thunder
How interesting that John Thorp (Review 2010 December 17) acknowledges the rhubarb shed, where form follows function, as a piece of vernacular architecture.
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Staying on track
Your final issue for 2010 leaves the impression that some architectural luminaries’ judgments are going a bit astray in two areas.
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Local specifics
I was asked for comment on the localism bill (“Should We Be Wary of People Power”, December 17) but I didn’t realise it would run under the tag line “Good for architecture?”
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OpinionIs 2011 going to be the year of recovery for architects?
Yes, says Lindsay Urquhart, there are increasing UK opportunities for experienced delivery architects; but Brian Waters fears the construction industry may be in for a double dip.
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Amid all the drama, there’s a tragedy
Cardiff’s course pioneered the idea of ’interior architecture’. Now it’s closing