More Comment – Page 191
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Opinion
Failing to foster
For institutional and regulatory reasons, and with some important exceptions, the huge creative opportunity presented by the games has not been adequately used to harness and promote young and emerging design talent.
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OpinionVictim of success
It was sobering that the only attractive illustration in your article on the West Riding (Urban Trawl October 2) was Frank Matcham’s restored County Arcade in Leeds
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Opinion
Correction: 02 October 2009
Our review of Land Architecture People (Culture September 25) described co-curator Clare Melhuish as a critic
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OpinionThe seductive new sound of success
A report on well-being should prompt us to re-examine what ‘success’ is in architecture
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OpinionIs the ODA letting down small practices on ‘legacy’?
Yes, says Andrew Bofff, it would rather take the easy option of using large firms; while the ODA’s Jerome Frost says it has tried to ensure opportunities for all sizes of practice
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Opinion
RMJM debt is bad publicity
Hiring Will Alsop suggests RMJM has deep pockets so it’s surprising that its financial director Patrick Valentine has admitted it is unable to pay a number of its suppliers, including the London PR company Ing Media, to which it owes £15,000.
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OpinionDon't catch the British disease
Amanda Baillieu (Leader September 25) condemns Crossrail as a project “destined to go down as the bargain basement version of the hugely admired Jubilee Line extension”
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OpinionThis is in all our back yards
Political parties must address the fact that nimbyism is a symptom of a failing planning system
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Opinion
Cross purposes
I disagree fundamentally with your assertion (Leader September 25) that Crossrail will not be a project the mayor will want to be remembered for and that there is a lack of architectural ambition on the project. Also the headline “Crossrail design disappoints Cabe” (News September 11) was misleading as it ...
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OpinionBirds fly in, Prescott flies out
Small initiatives give us hope amid the relentless greenwash
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OpinionOne in the eye
Although it is fantastic to see a medical building evolving from the norm, I can’t help but think Toh Shimazaki’s eye surgery (Works September 25) looks pretty nasty as a piece
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Opinion
Challenge Arb
I share Jasmine Blood’s concern over the iniquity of the current system for registering architects, which seems to unfairly favour EU registrants at the expense of UK students (Letters September 25)
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Opinion
Why study here?
I completely agree with Jasmine Blood (Letters September 25). If EU students want to register as architects in the UK, they should go through part III as UK students do. By not doing so, Arb is not only failing to protect the public but this is also detrimental to our ...
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Opinion
Make sure you're not out of place
Harvard is an unlikely setting for a drama about the fragility of belonging.
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OpinionBrighton cheers RIBA suggestion
Historian Tristan Hunt’s suggestion that the RIBA should “expel” members who consistently produce bad work was met with cheers in Brighton this week, to the consternation of RIBA president Ruth Reed
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OpinionWould a Tory government be good for heritage?
The Conservatives are keen to listen and have a commitment to historic buildings, says Catherine Croft; while Richard Coleman thinks they’ll find it hard to strike a balance between regeneration and heritage
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Opinion
We’ll do the math
I wish to clarify the situation regarding the authorship of the masterplan for the former Radcliffe Infirmary site in Oxford (News analysis September 18)
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OpinionCladding is not just skin deep
To answer Owen Hatherley’s rather naive question about over-cladding older residential tower blocks (Opinion September 18), most residential blocks have to be refurbished and upgraded with residents in place.
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OpinionExposing the mayor’s failings
Richard Rogers’ resignation as Boris Johnson’s design adviser reflects on a mayor with little interest in architecture
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