More Comment – Page 214
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Opinion
Blindingly clear
In reference to the Future Systems design for a new bus for London (Boots January 9), when will the hubristic blob and jagged shape brigade put function high up on the design agenda?
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Musical chairs
With the difficulty the DCMS is having finding someone to chair English Heritage, it’s taking no chances with the same job at Cabe when John Sorrell departs next year.
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OpinionSniffy critics
Since his appointment as editor a year ago, Tom Weaver has injected the long moribund AA Files with a new lease of life.
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Not an architect
Nice to hear of ministers giving UK architects a helping hand, no matter how many jollies to Singapore it may require.
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OpinionGive Bush’s era the order of the boot
As the boom bursts, how best to commemorate the president who let this happen?
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OpinionThe audacity of open architecture
Under the Bush presidency, the US has been erecting bunker-like embassy designs worldwide. With the inauguration of Obama, will the new US embassy in south London take a different tack?
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OpinionGlimmers of hope in the gloom
In uncertain times everyone has a prediction, but between the bad and the mad are some positive signs for architects
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OpinionSkills needed not role models
I am a “black” architect running a small practice in south London and find your news story on black role models (12 December) extremely disturbing.
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Mote and beam
Michael Rasmussen (Letters December 19) uses such words as “disturbed”, “ill timed and insensitive”, “great offence”, “offensive”, “wave of resignations”, “cutting the common bond”. What dreadful act might justify such language?
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OpinionShould the government relax rural planning laws?
Relaxing planning laws will hlep prvent villages becoming commuter homes, argues Mole Architecture’s Meredith Bowles, while the CPRE’s Kate Gordon counters that it will divert building from towns and cities.
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Let’s get together
How disappointing that concerns over the RIBA fees increase led to calls for a break with the RIBA. (Letters December 19).
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Best laid plans...
Carolyn Steel’s Opinion piece (5 December) elucidated much of why local communities are often at odds with the planning process and feel marginalised by so-called regeneration schemes.
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OpinionWomen’s work
Do you, like me, ever sit at your desk and wonder where the boundaries of your duties lie, or even whether our clients comprehend the task we have to do?
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Opinion
The F factor
When not handling Multiplex’s immense claim over Wembley Stadium, top City law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is focusing on other ways to combat the recession.