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Opinion
Correction
Qatari Diar paid £959 million for the Chelsea Barracks site, and not £9.95 million as reported on last week’s front page
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OpinionWhy I resigned as London chair
As the former chairman of London Region, I wish to make clear the circumstances that lead to my resignation on April 29 this year
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OpinionPiano hits a bum note
Central St Giles exemplifies how, in London, grossly over-scaled buildings can be nodded through if a ’good designer’ is attached
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OpinionThings look set to get grim up north
This year’s RSA exhibition points to a crisis of confidence among Scottish architects
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OpinionIs losing Vaizey as architecture minister a blow to heritage?
Catherine Croft is disappointed by the surprise reshuffle that saw John Penrose take over from Ed Vaizey, but Ben Stafford says give Penrose a chance
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OpinionName games at the DCMS
Boots was surprised to see the Guardian unilaterally rechristen the Department of Culture Media & Sport the DCOMS, to take account of Jeremy Hunt’s Olympic responsibilities
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Members only
Owen Luder says it appears RIBA staff have been taking sides in a dispute between elected officers
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One size fits all
Following my letter published in BD May 14, I would like to clarify that I intended a general comment in agreement with the request by RIBA Council for declarations of interest to include all memberships of associations, clubs, and professional memberships
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No pain, no gain
Many years ago, architectural draughtsmen – who were doing the architect’s work for him, and felt they were in fact propping him up on the technical side – got the hump.
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Time to move on
While it is difficult to commend the lack of masterplanning of Surrey Quays in the 1980s, I find Owen Hatherley’s political rant about the Conservatives (Opinion May 21) a reactionary jab following, presumably, an election result that he finds difficult to stomach
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Beware of cads
I read with interest the debate about sketching versus computer-generated images (Debate May 21).
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Correction
In our report on the RIBA Awards (News May 21), Walter Hall Primary School should have been credited to Architecture MK, Milton Keynes Council.
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OpinionSee Venice Little-Britain style
Shades of Vicky Pollard dominate the Venice Architecture Biennale
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OpinionQuangos quiver under Osborne's axe
Today is the dry run for the pain ahead, but already squeals can be heard from Cabe, from English Heritage and from the Tate. All have lost 3% of their annual budget, which doesn’t sound so bad, but Cabe is facing cuts of up to £800,000 in its annual budget, ...
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OpinionSurrey Quays, the real Tory heartland
The Conservative non-planners of the eighties have never been held to account for their legacy
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OpinionWhat a difference a day makes
The new architecture and heritage minister is not, after all, Ed Vaizey but John Penrose, who until the election was shadow minister for business, enterprise and regulatory reform.
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OpinionWho will pay for our memorials?
Despite there being a moratorium on memorials in London’s Royal Parks, and the recommendations by the planning officers of City of Westminster to refuse the application, Westminster’s planning committee has approved the Bomber Command Memorial for Green Park, an irrelevant and ridiculous 100m-long grand colonnade on Piccadilly – a colonnade ...
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OpinionSticking point
The problems raised by Charles Bain Smith (Letters May 7) appear to have been “resolved in part” by Theis & Khan, as shown in Works of your May 14 issue
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Sad slave labour
What a sad profession architecture really is - practices only kept economic by slave labour hours, by graduates who will be sacked the next day once whatever horrible, meritless building they are working on has moved on from documentation stage