More Comment – Page 159
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Bad science
It is interesting that David Kohn praises Camden’s public housing of the sixties and seventies for being experimental (Culture November 5)
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Public interest
While we keep banging on about the protection of title, it does not appear to be of much interest to the greater community
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Good riddance
The government’s curtailment of the Thames Gateway is not only necessary, but good
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Weighing up the housing benefits
Council housing is the forgotten alternative to a system that subsidises rich landlords.
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Will the Green Deal mean much work for architects?
Architects will be able to incorporate the deal into their services, says Andrew Mellor, but Brian Berry believes it is builders who will benefit
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Make’s ‘diamonds’ of Birmingham
Make’s Carbuncle Cup-nominated Cube building in Birmingham just got even classier. 39-year-old graffiti artist Temper (or, as his mother knows him, Aaron Bird) has created a £250,000 installation for the foyer featuring bronze figures of inspirational people including a firefighter, Holocaust survivor and counsellor.Temper was struck by Make supremo Ken ...
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Fruit juice of human kindness
Speak to any developer or product manufacturer and you would think we live in a green utopia
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Lessons from 60s Camden
An exhibition on council homes in the sixties demonstrates how current procurement processes hamper good quality social housing
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Stop forcing me
Mike Matthews (Letters October 29) makes some lucid points with respect to the legal protection of title and I agree that a completely new approach to this is overdue. But what should that entail?
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Legal recourse
Mike Matthews (Letters October 29) is right when he says that the Arb offers no effective protection of title. The trivial fines it imposes are no disincentive to the wide abuse of variations on the title architect
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Timely warning
Three letters last week (Gibbs-Kennet, Matthews and Smith) separately stated good reasons for registration to be reckoned unsatisfactory from the point of view of students on the way to qualifying.
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Back to basics
Interesting letters last week: one all about protection of title, and how non-architects shouldn’t (can’t?) do what architects do, and muttering about the seven years of training; then one listing lots of the things that apparently now we don’t do – on top, of course, of all the things the ...
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Driving force
Jonathan Glancey is right (October 29): Cabe’s contribution to procuring buildings of real merit has, at best, been opaque, and surely hardly justifies the huge resource invested in that quango at public expense
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Dot to dot results: 29 October 2010
Last week’s winner was Maria Hellman of London W3, who identified the Beth Sholom Synagogue by Frank Lloyd Wright at Elkins Park, Pennsylvania
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On the politics of beauty
If Victorian architects had had to contend with the current generation of design watchdogs, many of our most striking buildings would not have got off the drawing board
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Design quangos’ famous last words
Big Society rhetoric seems to be finding its mark as the spending review cuts take hold.
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Is the dream of the Thames Gateway dead?
Yes, says Mark Brearley, we must now fight to salvage what we can; but Terry Farrell sees great potential in what’s already been achieved
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Nouvel’s lobby proves hard to live with
With last week’s opening of One New Change, Jean Nouvel may not want for admirers in London, but in New York he is proving a rather harder sell