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  • Amanda Baillieu
    Opinion

    PFI chickens come home to roost

    2009-01-30T00:00:00Z

    The unpopular procurement method is now proving an obstacle to the government’s plans to boost the economy

  • Opinion

    The house is a machine for learning

    2009-01-30T00:00:00Z

    Architects’ quest to design mixed communities could benefit from looking at a group of Gallic militant lefties

  • Opinion

    Is it time to scrap the Private Finance Initiative?

    2009-01-30T00:00:00Z

    Definitely, says former RIBA president Jack Pringle, but Skanska director of education Steve Cooper believes architects have a great opportunity now.

  • Opinion

    Kudos is reward

    2009-01-30T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • Opinion

    Good riddance

    2009-01-30T00:00:00Z

    So the Stirling Prize is just about over — great! — who cares?

  • Opinion

    Talking rubbish

    2009-01-30T00:00:00Z

    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)

  • Opinion

    Hospital case

    2009-01-30T00:00:00Z

    I was shocked by Richard Harrington’s remarks on ward refurbishment

  • Opinion

    Reform’s cool

    2009-01-30T00:00:00Z

    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

  • Opinion

    Title fight

    2009-01-30T00:00:00Z

    It’s bad enough that there are so few jobs advertised for architects in the national, or any, press.

  • Opinion

    Corrections: 30.01.09

    2009-01-30T00:00:00Z

    Make me a Home finalist Spine Architects is located in Hamburg, Germany, not Myanmar and New York, as reported last week.

  • Going so soon? DSDHA pavilion.
    Opinion

    It’s potty

    2009-01-30T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • Opinion

    Out for a duck

    2009-01-30T00:00:00Z

    Determined to keep Test Match status, Warwickshire County Cricket Club is hoping to upgrade its Edgbaston ground.

  • Opinion

    Collecting can

    2009-01-30T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • Opinion

    Living on

    2009-01-30T00:00:00Z

    As BD documented last week, Jan Kaplicky’s status as an inspirational architect has never been in doubt, but even so Boots was astonished to hear that over 20,000 people have joined a Czech Facebook group calling for his Prague library to be built.

  • Lowered: the Stars and Stripe
    Opinion

    Flagged down

    2009-01-30T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • Opinion

    Untapped depths

    2009-01-30T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • US embassy to be fortress
    Opinion

    Let’s rethink US embassy plans

    2009-01-23T00:00:00Z

    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?

  • Opinion

    League analysis

    2009-01-23T00:00:00Z

    Schosa acknowledges there are many legitimate ways of analysing the data emerging from the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise

  • Fountains: loved and loathed.
    Opinion

    Centre points

    2009-01-23T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • Opinion

    Improve the flow

    2009-01-23T00:00:00Z

    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)