More Comment – Page 205
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Opinion
Hardest route
Regarding the debate on professional status, registration, title etc, whatever one’s view, it seems particularly unfair on those architects who qualified the “hard” way
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OpinionSurface tension
Your recent article on Nottingham (Urban Trawl April 3) seeks to judge the city in terms of design. As usual, the emphasis is solely on visual quality and interest
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No need to delist
The delisting of Colin St John Wilson’s Hereford house (Letters 27 March) leads me to the conclusion that in any future listed building legislation, delisting should cease or be much more restricted
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Opinion
Selective views
Your correspondent has misquoted me in his article about Southwark towers (News April 9)
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OpinionDon't make museums for morons
Pringle Richards Sharratt Architects’ refurbishment of Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum evades the vogue for dumbing down our cultural wonders
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OpinionTime to face up to the brutalist truth
Channel 4’s Red Riding trilogy suggested a different way of looking at the post-war city
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OpinionPutting the boot in at Chelsea
The fallout continues over HRH’s intervention on Roger’s Barracks scheme, plus novel career moves for the unemployed architect: private eye, Gladiator...
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OpinionWould a Tory government be good for housing?
Yes, if it abolished the current planning system, says the RIBA’s Jan Maciag; no says Peter Barber, the Tories’ green paper is too ideologically cautious
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OpinionThe wrong skills for the job
Restricting conservation work to those on a specialist register could stop buildings having the best viable future
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OpinionWe have strayed too far from the flock
Our reactions to the G20 and ambivalence to rural life are symptoms of a wider dislocation
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OpinionHigh society and low taste
As the Prince of Wales gears up for a rematch with the RIBA, what kind of architectural delights came to fruit after his Hampton Court speech 25 years ago?
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A new start for conservation
Your invited columnists debating a new conservation register (Debate April 3) should have delved a little deeper, on two grounds.
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Opinion
Brought to book
Clive Dutton (News April 3) is clearly delighted that the councillors who employ him have “given” him £200 million to gamble on his pet property-led regeneration scheme.
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OpinionMetal gurus
Mecanoo claims on its website that the facade of the proposed Birmingham Library (News April 3) is a “delicate metal filigree, inspired by the rich and proud history of this former industrial city with a tradition of craftsmanship”.
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Opinion
Into the light
Maybe Bill Mitchell (Opinion April 3) needs to get his compact fluorescent lightbulbs from somewhere other than his local supermarket?
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OpinionChanging gear
How busted am I? I knew that photograph (Archive April 3) would come back to haunt me.
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OpinionBattle lines draw at the Bartlett
Both the Bartlett and the RIBA are in the hunt to fill top posts, while could Mecanoo’s Birmingham Library proposals prove as controversial as Jan Kaplicky’s for Prague?
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OpinionPrince is back for seconds
Sustainability is likely to be the target of Prince Charles’s RIBA speech next month, but architects can’t expect an easy ride
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OpinionMake more of the year out
The latest call from the Association of Consultant Architects to “relax work experience rules” (News March 20) came as no surprise. As a part I student myself, I strongly feel that what needs to be altered is not the necessity of a year out, which to my mind is indubitably ...