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OpinionShould we question green orthodoxy?
Readers are split in their responses to last week’s leader calling for a debate on climate change
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OpinionWhere is the Ice Cube of architecture?
Today the idea of an angry architecture is all but inconceivable
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OpinionIs the new policy statement PPS 15 a threat to heritage?
Yes, by assuming heritage stands in the way of economic recovery, says the RTPI’s Martin Willey; while English Heritage’s Duncan McCallum counters that it maintains protection for the historic environment
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OpinionPlane Stupid’s flight of fancy
Pressure group Plane Stupid lived up to its name at BD’s Architect of the Year Awards, after it emerged its satirical attack on Heathrow’s third runway architect had been directed at, er, the wrong firm
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OpinionChipperfield's lucky escape
I can empathise with David Chipperfield’s disappointment for not being asked to develop his competition-winning Film Centre design for the BFI (News October 30). My 1995 design for it, for the south side of Tate Modern, was similarly superseded
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OpinionIs global warming hot air?
The RIBA must not be blinkered to the increasing evidence against man-made climate change
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OpinionThe writing is on the walls
Twenty years after the Berlin wall came crashing down a new breed of barrier appears to be growing
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Movie puzzler
A lot of things puzzle me. One is sometimes why clients change architects. Chipperfield wins a competition. Eight years later the promoters get some extra money, decide that they have to hold a fresh competition and look for another architect when they had one of proven excellence. Why?
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Spurn this invite
Your readers may be aware of an invitation for expressions of interest for a sustainable housing scheme in Islington. The first stage submission asks “suppliers” to provide an AO board of conceptual design ideas for the site
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Wider tradition
If we follow Jonathan Glancey’s argument (October 30), we can’t win. If our survey on public taste in architecture compares similar things we’re superficial, but if we’d compared unlike things we’d be biased
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Structural flaw
Has any self-respecting architect ever disassociated structure and architecture?
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Correction
Formtexx’s double-curvature panels (Solutions October 30) will cost £650 per sq m, a 10th of the cost of the steel plates in Chicago’s Millennium Park rather than half the cost, as reported.
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OpinionEdinburgh: time to take off the mask
Hiding behind a fictional heritage will leave this city stuck in the past
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OpinionJohn Lyall grins and bares it
It’s not quite The Full Monty, but the video of John Lyall on stage at his new Jerwood Dance House with various builders from Morgan Ashurst is very entertaining
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OpinionShould ministers criticise individual buildings?
Yes, criticism can lead to a dialogue that will ultimately improve public buildings, says Jaime Bishop; while Ruth Reed argues that architects shouldn’t take the flack for flawed procurement processes
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OpinionGraphs belong to another era
I must admit I was surprised to learn that some practices still use the fee survey graph to calculate fees. Removing this from the RIBA A Client’s Guide to Engaging an Architect will surely be beneficial to architects and clients alike
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OpinionPolyark is on the right road
The issues Cedric Price’s student project addressed in the 1970s are still important to architecture schools today
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OpinionAD addendum
For the record, Monica Pidgeon (News: obituary September 25) didn’t publish Rem Koolhaas: that was Haig Beck in 1977, after she had left Architectural Design
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OpinionAge of margarine classicism
People might not have noticed the difference between margarine and butter in those old ads, but they do see the difference between traditional and modern