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OpinionLocal planning
Cabe chairman Paul Finch is on shaky ground in arguing that “anything in the built environment we admire had nothing to do with local communities putting in their ideas on design” (bdonline November 15)
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Winning ways
Wouldn’t it be easier to describe all CIAT, Riba degree-level candidates as apprentice architects?
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OpinionDot to dot results: 19 November 2010
Last week’s winner was Elissa Evans of Powell Dobson in Swansea, who identified Frank Gehry’s IAC building in New York
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Correction
Our report last week on “Designs to replace Robin Hood Gardens revealed” said that Maccreanor Lavington was part of the team fronted by Swan Housing & Countryside Properties. While the practice was invited to be part of the team, it declined to participate.
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OpinionKnowledge is Power
Will the profession ultimately fail itself with style but no substance? asks KPF’s John Bushell
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OpinionA broader failure of vision
Neither of the projects in contention to replace Robin Hood Gardens looks likely to address the basic problems of the site
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OpinionContradictions of the new localism
Axeing Regional Development Agencies doesn’t negate the need for regional strategy
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OpinionWhat’s wrong with part III?
So Paul McGrath would like to use the title of architect because he sees it as appropriate recognition for five years of study (News November 5)
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Seven year itch
Abolishing the final year of professional practice and absorbing part III examinations into part II seems on the cards if the EU/McGrath issue is to be resolved
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Housing vision
I read with interest Ed Hollis’s diatribe on the sad demise of council housing (November 12)
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The space age
William Fawcett (Letters, November 12) could not be more wrong in supposing that architects working in the public sector in the sixties were not supported by a body of research. At that time there was a constant stream of Building Bulletins from the Ministry of Housing & Local Government.In 1961 ...
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Planning ahead
Your leader and Derek Abbott’s letter (November 12) made me recall my father, Roy Kantorowich, who is surely spinning in his grave, shouting “told you so” whether you like it or not
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What is an architect’s price?
Is it just money that leads practices to take on morally dubious projects?
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OpinionDoes the UK construction industry lack ambition?
We shouldn’t blame our shortcomings on our clients, says Paul Morrell, while Rosemary Beales argues that we live in a place where it is hard to get things built
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OpinionHelsinki architect puts rap in the house
The days of formal lectures with slides and laser pointers may not quite be over, but Helsinki architect Tuomas Toivonen obviously believes architects need to find new ways to communicate their ideas
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OpinionLeaving its staff behind
RMJM would do well to look back to the leadership skills of founder Robert Matthew
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OpinionWhat a pickle we’re in now
Your report and leader (November 5) on the state of emerging planning legislation make for disturbing reading
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Creative gap
Your enlightened leader (October 22) is dead right about British planners’ lack of creative design