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OpinionPFI chickens come home to roost
The unpopular procurement method is now proving an obstacle to the government’s plans to boost the economy
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OpinionThe house is a machine for learning
Architects’ quest to design mixed communities could benefit from looking at a group of Gallic militant lefties
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Is it time to scrap the Private Finance Initiative?
Definitely, says former RIBA president Jack Pringle, but Skanska director of education Steve Cooper believes architects have a great opportunity now.
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Kudos is reward
Your headline “Stirling to drop prize money” (January 23) is misleading. The question of whether and how to fund a prize is being discussed — no decision has been made.
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Talking rubbish
How encouraging it was for us at the bottom of the architectural food chain to hear Richard Harrington, chairman of Nightingale Associates, describe ward refurbishments as “rubbish like that” (News January 16)
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Reform’s cool
Elections for the Arb board and executive are here again. In 2006, five of the 22 candidates seeking election to Arb’s seven architect places collected 70% of the profession’s votes
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Title fight
It’s bad enough that there are so few jobs advertised for architects in the national, or any, press.
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Corrections: 30.01.09
Make me a Home finalist Spine Architects is located in Hamburg, Germany, not Myanmar and New York, as reported last week.
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OpinionIt’s potty
Word reaches Boots that DSDHA’s pavilion next to Tower Bridge is unlikely to survive the arrival of Squire & Partners’ Potters Fields development despite standing only a few months.
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Out for a duck
Determined to keep Test Match status, Warwickshire County Cricket Club is hoping to upgrade its Edgbaston ground.
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Collecting can
Organisers of the charity Cycle to Cannes event have called for donations for this year’s 1,500km ride from London to Mipim as the recession has seen funding from commercial sponsorship halved.
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OpinionFlagged down
London mayor Boris Johnson and English Heritage have imposed a height restriction for the new US Embassy, to be sited in south-west London near Vauxhall.
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Untapped depths
Boots has been invited to some tenuous product launches in its time but not, until now, to the opening of a tap — even if it is designed by Zaha Hadid.
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OpinionLet’s rethink US embassy plans
Even with the enormity of the economic struggles that lie before him, I hope President Obama and his team can find time to address one small yet important issue: how does America project its ideals in the capital cities of the world?
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League analysis
Schosa acknowledges there are many legitimate ways of analysing the data emerging from the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise
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OpinionCentre points
I was involved in the design of the new entrance hall and plaza for Centre Point (News January 16) while working with Gaunt Francis back in 2000-02.
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Improve the flow
Removing the Centre Point fountains — which have always appeared a bit out of scale and out of place, forcing pedestrians to negotiate their way around them on a narrow strip of pavement — is a good idea (News January 16)