More Comment – Page 219
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OpinionEye on the ball
At first, everyone wanted a piece of the Olympic pie, but now it’s hard not to pity the poor architects who did manage to win work.
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Charm offensive
Paul Tyler, the Lib Dem peer who successfully campaigned for design to be included in the new planning bill, has been less successful in getting his own design idea to a bigger audience.
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Cold shoulder
Still with Kevin McCloud, who took part in an Architecture Club debate this week, asking whether the public and the profession understand each other.
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Deserted Rock
It seems like eons ago now, but the shadow of Northern Rock’s collapse still hangs over Tyneside.
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OpinionOn the air
For those still interested in the epic falling-out between the BBC and Richard MacCormac, some very juicy private documents, including Bovis’s specific list of grievances with the architect, have emerged on the information superhighway.
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OpinionThree reasons to be cheerful in a downturn
Sustainable design group the Green Register offer inspiration for green architects as the economic slowdown begins to bite
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OpinionBlade runners
Plans by Norman Foster to plonk an 85m-high wind turbine on top of Manchester City Football Stadium have been ditched after fears that it could become a giant death trap.
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OpinionHow can the RIBA help you?
We’ve waited patiently for the RIBA to give a lead on the recession, and now it’s finally come, it’s simply not enough
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OpinionArchitecture failed in Deptford
Isn’t BD missing the “elephant in the room” in its reporting of the Stephen Lawrence Centre fiasco (November 7)? Namely, a failure of architecture.
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Trust funds
While the Stephen Lawrence Trust cites the recession as one reason it is unable to repair its windows, it does not lack celebrity backers, who turned out in force to support a charity art auction at the Dorchester this week.
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OpinionAcademies rule
Owen Hatherley’s criticism that the academy schools programme is meretricious misses the point (Opinion October 31).
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OpinionA signal to rebuild public transport
There must be a reason why the boring old car is architecturally uncelebrated
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OpinionWill the downturn be good for architectural creativity?
Yes, says Nigel Coates, as that’s when ideas are nurtured, but Grimshaw partner Neven Sidor believes creativity is driven by surplus
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On the plus side
Still with Norman, newsstands groaning under the weight of recession-defying glossy magazines will soon carry one more from the biggest brand in architecture.
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Red alert
Bloggers are asking why this month’s RIBA Journal carries a scathing review of Make’s Jubilee Campus at Nottingham University, featuring ski-slope buildings clad in landscape-format terracotta panels in random shades of blood red, while praising the rather similar (landscape-format, pressed metal panels in, er, random shades of blood red) Sheppard ...
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Contracting out
Just how bad is the recession? Pretty nasty, according to RIBA Publications, which tells Boots there has been a dramatic drop in sales of JCT contracts.
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Centre priorities
The Stephen Lawrence Centre opened in February 2008, on time and on budget, which showed the level of strong management expertise and leadership.
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Renovate rebate
I would like to correct Ivor Hall’s comments on council tax rebates during renovation of empty properties (Letters October 31).
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Better plan
I would like to set straight some points raised in your news story “Berkeley Group chief blasts ‘secretive’ Cabe” (October 31).