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OpinionRogers’ Pompidou Centre gets French fried in new poll
Prince Charles’ views on modern architecture have been echoed by the good citizens of Paris who, according to a poll in Le Figaro this week, hate modern buildings, especially towers, and have voted on which ones they’d like to see demolished.
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OpinionThank God, old is the new new
When governments talk in terms of ‘out with the old, in with the new’, or ‘modernisation’, you know to be wary
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OpinionWhat role should the public have in the planning system?
BD editor Amanda Baillieu and reader Charles Thomson go head to head on the thorny issue of democracy – or lack of - in the planning system
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OpinionWhere is the democracy?
The big hitters have rallied to Rogers’ side, but their unquestioning support for the planning system is naïve
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OpinionAbsolution ain’t a modern solution
Consultants can no longer rely on papal mercy when projects bust their budgets big time
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OpinionConservation competence
I think you have identified the nub of the problem with the building conservation register (Leader April 9). Two skills are involved — the technical (vocational/craft) and the strategic (academic/ professional), and these run on different tracks
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OpinionIs Rogers’ plan for Chelsea Barracks good urbanism?
Yes, says MJ Long, it’s an integrated scheme that has rhythm and style; no, says Alan Baxter, its public realm content is insufficient and it destroys the existing street pattern
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Function defence
Work to gas fittings requires protection of function to prevent people blowing themselves and their possessions to kingdom come
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OpinionStill out of touch
In 1989, RIBA president Maxwell Hutchinson wanted to get rid of the Arcuk
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Equality first
The RIBA president is being both politically correct and defeatist to suggest that any move to acquire protection of function for the profession would be going against the tide
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The big picture
I thoroughly enjoyed Carolyn Steel’s piece (Opinion April 9) concerning the ridiculous stance which we in the west continue to promote as the only way forward for the world, that is, constant economic growth combined with constant population growth (for economic reasons, of course)
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Turning nasty
I am indebted to Robert Menzies (Letters April 17) for bringing it to my attention that in the 25 years or so that I have been visiting and writing about buildings, it has never before occurred to me to predicate a review on the turning circle within a project’s disabled ...
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Prince of peeves
Whatever the rather hysterical Charles Thompson (Letters April 17) may think of the Prince of Wales, the fact is that he speaks out for many people who are less than enchanted by so much of the output of some — not all — British architects in recent years
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OpinionChelsea Barracks row picked up stateside
Time magazine’s take on the royal row, plus Learning from Bob and Denise, Robin Hood Gardens, love and hate with Valerio Olgiati
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OpinionSage of Shepperton slips away
JG Ballard, who died earlier this week, took on modern architecture in his stories more than once — and the power of his work was such that his fictions have become our reality
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No platform for Prince Charles
Why has the RIBA decided to invite the Prince of Wales back to deliver the RIBA Trust lecture (Debate April 9), trailed as though this is some major RIBA coup?
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OpinionChanging with the times
BD must now become a paid-for title to continue to offer the standards of journalism you expect
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Internal logic
I read Peter Wilson’s description of Malcolm Fraser’s work in Berwick-upon-Tweed (Works April 9) and noted his assertion that “Clearly a great deal of thought has gone into the internal planning”
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Conserving skills
As every architect who has some experience of practice will acknowledge, RIBA membership, Arb registration, and the membership of any professional institute by no means guarantees design ability. Neither of course does AABC membership ensure that an accredited conservation architect has design ability