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OpinionWhen it's wrong to walk
Refusing to work for difficult clients is likely to result in worse buildings in the sectors that matter most
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OpinionClimate change beyond ‘belief’
I am amazed that many usually rational people — including architects — have turned into evangelical, fanatical bigots when it comes to the question of climate and energy
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Keep a cool head
Our profession has a key role in adapting for the consequences of the 10-century-long trend of global warming, but this does not mean we have to dumbly accept the assertions of the “greenhouse gas” proponents. Many of the same climate campaigners were frightening us with a new ice age, as ...
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OpinionLost in the name of sustainability
The demolition of an innovative 19th century steel girder bridge is entirely unnecessary
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United approach
The construction industry cannot afford to waste any more time debating which scientific data it prefers to believe. There is a “good enough” consensus among climate scientists that humans can affect climate
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Solid evidence
Your editorial “Is global warming hot air?” (November 6) does a great disservice to our profession. To claim a “growing wealth of scientific evidence” that climate change is not predominantly man made, without citing this supposed evidence, either suggests that BD knows something the rest of us don’t, or BD ...
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Can’t win ’em all
It is sad to read of the suspension of the scheme to extend Asplund’s Stockholm City Library (News November 13), but predictable. The difficulty with competitions that rely on a winning design, which is then implemented, is the lack of opportunity for reflection and consultation
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Don’t talk rubbish
Jonathan Glancey’s article, “Home is where the bullying is” (November 13) is unnecessarily unkind to those who have the unpleasant task of dealing with our recycling and waste at “town dumps”
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Corrections - 20 November 2009
The image used with last week’s news story “Stockholm axes plan for library extension” was not the winning entry by Heike Hanada as stated, but Jonathan Woolf’s design, which came seventh.The photograph of Caruso St John’s Nottingham Contemporary on page 12 last week should have been credited to Hélène Binet.
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Do you have a better mousetrap?
Recession can be a good time to launch a business, but don’t bother if you’re offering nothing new.
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OpinionWill the Glasgow Lighthouse thrive in public hands?
Peter Wilson says, no, it has long ceased to deliver any genuine national function, but Page Park founder David Page argues that it is time a national institution found a setting in Scotland’s biggest city
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Skateboarders take on the Supreme Court (benches)
The elegant carved stone anti-car bomb benches outside Feilden & Mawson’s Supreme Court in Parliament Square are themselves protected by 6ft fences. It turns out a rogue skateboarder knocked a chunk out of one of them before the court was even open
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OpinionThe climate debate isn’t over
Attacking the media for raising questions about global warning only exemplifies how green orthodoxy is stifling legitimate discussion
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Climate debate has moved on
Responding to your leader last week,“Is global warming hot air?”, it is worth reflecting on how the climate change debate has developed
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Data error
As a professional meteorologist and hydrologist, may I congratulate you on approaching this thorny topic with the proper scientific rigour, which even whilst I was at school, I was taught should provide considered conclusions, which can only be supported by fact
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OpinionHome is where the bullying is
Locally and nationally, decisions are being based on ideology not common sense
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RIBA box ticking
I fail to understand why the RIBA makes it compulsory for practices who want to be chartered to have to have an environmental policy
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Good chances
So the London Development Agency is “championing” good design by only employing “good” architects (News November 6)
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Talent show
In these gloomy times it is nice to see that the likes of Atkins and Capita are “poaching” talent from design-oriented firms