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Less than zero
BD June 4: zero-carbon 28 unit affordable housing at Basildon, £5.7 million pound development (News)
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Upwardly mobile
Regulation-free or child-free zone? Please, have some respect for the kids of today (Letters May 21).
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Correction: 11 June 2010
Contrary to our story on page 2 last week, there is no current threat of redundancies at Nightingale Associates following its sale to Canadian firm, IBI Group. BD would like to apologise for the error.
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OpinionHas money been wasted on school design work?
Yes, says Katharine Quarmby, the programme is wasteful and overcomplicated; but John Waldron argues that BSF has done well in the face of a massive maintenance backlog.
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OpinionPeriod features for Alsop, Finch and Zogolovitch
Fancy dress shops are being severely tested in the run up to the London Festival of Architecture, Boots learns
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OpinionHow the other half builds
The gap between low-cost housing and luxury developments grows ever wider.
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Where now for Battersea Power Station?
Years ago I had the pleasure of spending an evening with Rafael Vinoly. It began with a certain amount of drama as he insisted on driving down a one way street on the way to the restaurant.
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Why do architects choose names that require a BBC pronunciation manual?
If Buschow Henley wasn’t bad enough, the practice has now rebranded and come up with Henley Halebrown Rorrison guaranteed to be as troublesome to BBC newsreaders as al-Qa’eda and J K Rowling.
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Another day, another reason to lay into Michael Gove
Gove’s gaffes aren’t quite up there with Tony Hayward, BP’s chief executive. On the other hand it takes quite a lot to stir RIBA and by yesterday it was sufficiently wound up by the education secretary’s latest comment to put out a press release.
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Architecture’s final frontier
The Pantheon and the International Space Station share the ability of great buildings to inspire wonder
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OpinionRevisit the reshuffle
Ed Vaizey and John Penrose are ministers under the secretary of state at the Department for Culture Media & Sport
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Going Dutch offers food for thought
Should the UK sacrifice its land to the intensive farming methods of the Netherlands?
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OpinionCan supermarket buildings ever be good architecture?
Alex Lifschutz of Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands says supermarkets are well-designed when they improve neighbourhoods but Mitchell Taylor Workshop’s Piers Taylor believes the design is just building as hoarding
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OpinionPunctured ideals over Wandsworth bike racks
The best laid plans of mice and, er, architects go oft awry
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OpinionTV’s game-show architecture
Would there be TV freak shows if buildings worked with the landscape and were built at a slower pace?
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London matters
I must correct a number of factual inaccuracies referred to by Azar Djamali (Letters May 28)
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Play by the rules
I can confirm that I asked on more than one occasion for some personal intervention by two presidents and the current CEO to speak to Azar Djamali to at least hear her side of the story
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Interesting times
We learn from Peter Phillips (Letters May 28) that unelected officers sit on several boards with full voting rights
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Fantasy world
Peter Phillips (Letters May 28) was not on council when I presented new board proposals and he evidently misunderstands its role
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Riverside views
I was alarmed to read (News May 28), that Guy’s Hospital tower, which has for decades been a powerful south London landmark, had moved along the river to the St Thomas’ Hospital site. However, when I looked for it today “opposite the Houses of Parliament”, strangely it had disappeared. Please ...