More Comment – Page 185
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Waves of change
Tim Keating (Letters December 11) is worried about the cost of switching to a low-carbon economy — something we will have to do anyway as the economically harvestable oil is running out
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Snap reaction
I, too, suffered the same indignation as Grant Smith (News December 11) a couple of years ago, together with screeching police car tyres and three sprinting police officers
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OpinionClean crisp lines
While Le Corbusier helpfully suggested modelling buildings on aeroplanes and ocean liners, readers of John Seabrook’s profile of Zaha Hadid in the current New Yorker will be aware of a new paradigm
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OpinionRIBA must stop navel-gazing
The RIBA’s continuing wrangles over registration and regulation distract it from bigger issues about its future
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OpinionPlace shaping for everyone
Jonathan Glancey’s article “Who will gallop to the rescue?” (November 27) struck a massive chord in Bradford Council’s regeneration department, made up of planning, asset management, transport, housing and economic development
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Dubai dystopia
Congratulations on your editorial on the Dubai debacle (Leader December 4), here’s hoping it gets up people’s noses. There should be no sympathy for those practices who dashed to the trough to help build a dystopian playground for the super-rich, including such energy-guzzling projects as a revolving hotel
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Out of the woods
Sam Webb catalogues a number of fires in timber frame structures to support his claim that timber frames are not a suitable form of construction for built-up areas (Debate December 4). It is notable that all of his examples sit within London and the South-east
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Consensus cost
It was interesting to read Amanda Baillieu's contribution to the Spectator’s December 4 issue, in which she described the reactions to her recent editorial on global warming (Leader November 6)
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Tropical storm
One way that architects can (and should) make a significant change on the overall carbon impact of buildings is to eschew tropical hardwoods. Our research has shown that imported tropical hardwoods are the key driver of deforestation in the tropics, which is responsible for 25% of human-caused CO2 emissions
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OpinionCorrection
Sculptures on the Woolwich riverside (pictured), attributed to Antony Gormley in last week’s Urban Trawl on Greenwich were in fact by Peter Burke.
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Opinion‘Sustainability’ is a dangerous mirage
Even in Dubai, the language of greenwash is used to distract us from the real design issues
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OpinionZaha and the life of pies
Zaha Hadid Architects is the only practice still doing well enough to appear in the Times’s annual list of the 100 fastest-growing UK private companies. The firm came in at number 67 with 67.43% annual sales growth
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OpinionWill design thresholds improve public buildings?
Yes, says Margaret Hodge, it’s daft to settle for second best in public programmes; while Robert Adam counters that all they’ll do is enforce the establishment view
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OpinionSeason of humbug and hot air
If we’re really serious about the planet, let’s debate more and buy less
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OpinionNo sympathy for daredevils
The consultants that have had their fingers burnt in Dubai went there at their own risk
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OpinionCross the threshold at your peril
The government’s introduction of ‘design thresholds’ only adds to a heap of useless jargon
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OpinionBrian Anson: charming enfant terrible - and destroyer of SAC
I was sorry to read in BD (News November 27) of the death of Brian Anson; and I was transported back to distant lands by your comment
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Bags of talent
It was with great sadness that I read of Brian Anson’s death. Brian was a great source of support and creative provocation when I first started as head at the then University of North London
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Anson and the SAC
Much as I admired Brian Anson your account of his role in setting up the Schools of Architecture Council (SAC) is a bit misleading (News November 27)