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OpinionCan building in the desert ever be sustainable?
Arup’s Mike Beaven is optimistic about the potential for zero-carbon development in arid landscapes, while Rab Bennetts says such efforts are absurd
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OpinionDeath rattle
Boots had a somewhat awkward Stirling Prize dinner with Cabe executive member, Sarah Gaventa sat on the other side of the table
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OpinionOf dormice and men
Kent County Council’s decision to put dormice before development demonstrates the humaneness that should inform our planning
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OpinionFixing the regeneration game
The London Plan should adopt measures to stop regeneration failing the very people it is intended to help
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Time off studies for good behaviour?
The imminent spending review will force architecture course providers to get creative.
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OpinionDon’t monkee with South Bank
The new generation of MPs could do with a solid grounding in architectural principles
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OpinionWhere to draw the line?
Last week’s news that the King Abdullah Sports City project has been slashed may have been a calamity in terms of fees for the practices involved, but as someone who worked on the project (and resigned) it came as a relief
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Building blocks
In response to your report on Libya (“Author urges architects to reconsider Libya work” News September 17), I lived in Libya for most of 2005, working on Great Man-Made River pumping stations projects. I lived in Sirt, about halfway between Tripoli and Benghazi. I may have been the only UK ...
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OpinionShaky principles
I can’t look at MVRDV’s Balancing Barn without humming that tune “This is the Self-Preservation Society” or, for that matter, wanting to blow a little more than the bloody doors off it
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Clocking off
I support all Tom Ball says on the 2012 countdown clock in Trafalgar Square (Letters September 24)
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Capital notion
I have often used the anecdote of Cedric Price at the 1978 ArtNet event (Archive September 24) as an illustration of how architecture can enable and assist human behaviour (for better or worse)
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Vintage harvest
John Pawson serving 2003 Chateau Margaux at his private view (Boots September 24)?
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OpinionIs bespoke school design a good investment?
Yes, says Jonathan Ellis-Miller, bespoke design can improve attainment without breaking the bank; but Toby Young finds more evidence for investing in teachers than buildings
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OpinionLabour of love for Levete
Amanda Levete may be Michael Gove’s favourite architect, but her heart belongs to another. The politician’s pin-up was spotted at this week’s Labour Party conference where she was hoping to celebrate her friend David Miliband’s election as new Labour leader.Alas, it was not to be and after his defeat she ...
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OpinionGames failure is symbolic
The New Delhi bridge collapse reminds rising economic powers of the global imagery of architecture
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OpinionCentre is ageing healthily
As the original architects of Bethnal Green Health Centre we commend the internal refit Theis & Khan has carried out on our 1980s design
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Follow Jamie
I am sure I am not the only architect that recalls the legacy of education in wretched temporary buildings; dispirited teachers trying to instil some form of education into uninterested and callow youth, closeted in drab green huts, propped up and mired in the mud, with buckets in strategic places ...
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OpinionCounted out
Westminster City Council Planning Committee gave planning consent to the 2012 countdown clock in Trafalgar Square (News September 17) because it is “temporary” and “exceptional”: hardly the Olympic spirit
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Ranting at Raven
If the modern professional design student is no longer tied to the workspace (Ravensbourne College, Works September 17) why an eight-storey decorated shed stuck out in Greenwich?
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Cut the conflict
The Conservative MP quoted so prominently in last week’s BD (“Fears grow for Dewsbury regeneration masterplan” News September 17) has not seen the Dewsbury proposals and is now greatly embarrassed since the strategy has no pretty architectural pictures: it is economically driven and suggests a new local economy built on ...