More Comment – Page 186
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Opinion
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)
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Hole in the wall
Jonathan Glancey’s November 6 article contains contradictory arguments. Opening with the Berlin Wall, as tempting as it is due to the recent anniversary, doesn’t work
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OpinionWhen the mighty fall, we must rise
There’s no use fretting over stalled schemes. It just takes lateral thinking to unearth the opportunities
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OpinionShould large-scale timber construction be banned?
Yes, says Sam Webb, because of the disproportionate damage they cause when they catch fire; while Meredith Bowles argues that we just need to design against its shortcomings
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OpinionOne in, one out at Foster & Partners
Good news this week from the mighty Fosters, which is hiring “ambitious and talented” architects and trainees
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OpinionNo easy route to cutting CO2
The belief that the construction industry can bring about a 50% cut in CO2 emissions could lead to dangerous complacency
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OpinionRome wasn’t built in a day
Ellis Woodman’s article on Zaha Hadid’s Maxxi building in Rome (Works November 20) applies conventional critical analysis to unconventional contexts
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Carbuncle too?
At first glance, the new National Museum in Rome looks just like the ferry terminal in Liverpool which won this year’s Carbuncle Cup (Features August 28)
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Ask an architect
While Stuart Lipton, John Sorrell, Paul Finch and Nicholas Serota are all fine people and by and large know something about good architecture, they do represent government’s reluctance in England to put architects in the top adviser jobs (News November 20)
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Off the scale
I am surprised that the RIBA’s decision to abandon fee scale graphs (News October 30) has not been more roundly welcomed
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The simple life
Simple, workable and delightful buildings no longer exist, replaced with buildings that are far too clever for their own good
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Capital qualities
Cardiff is not a capital “of some sort” (Urban Trawl November 6) it is the capital of Wales.
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OpinionPhoto call
Who’s that next to Herman Hertzberger (Archive, November 20)? Is it the ever-youthful John Worthington, or just a lookalike?
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OpinionWe can’t design buildings on our own
Unless we can develop a sense of common purpose all collaboration is doomed to fail
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OpinionShould architects resign from bad projects?
Yes, says Peter Barber, we have responsibilities beyond our paymasters; while Mary Duggan counters that persevering is more of a statement than resigning
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OpinionPapal rebuke
What did the architect say to the Pope? Hopefully something as cerebral as the Pope said to the architects in his audience on Saturday, which included Daniel Libeskind and Zaha Hadid.