More Comment – Page 221
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OpinionTuned in...
Fresh from her recent fashion collaboration with Lacoste, for whom she is designing some shoes, Zaha Hadid is now turning her attention to Bach — or more precisely to a room for listening to Bach — for next year’s Manchester International Festival.
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Turned on...
A sleepy Saturday morning audience at the RIBA conference in Barcelona last weekend was suddenly jolted wide awake by Dutch legend Herman Hertzberger.
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Dropped out
BD’s Carbuncle Cup prides itself on stirring up debate about the quality of Britain’s built environment, but could it have more far-reaching effects?
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OpinionWill moving really be better?
The Design Museum may appear to be a white knight come to save the Commonwealth Institute building, but is it just a vanity project with no real purpose?
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OpinionWe did have a big idea for China
Contrary to your front page report (October 24) that Casson Mann “failed to come up with a big idea”, together with Heatherwick’s, Casson Mann did have a big idea for the content of the pavilion. Together we pitched with it, won the pitch with it, and the client approved it.
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Late intervention
The Kensington & Chelsea Exhibition Road photo montage (Letters October 24) indicates wall-to-wall paving of an area equal to Parliament Square.
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Act in haste...
Experience tells me the government should not speed up school building (Debate October 24).
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Empty prospects
With a downturn on new-builds, is it not time to start working on the empty properties around the UK? It would certainly provide employment for many of our smaller partnerships.
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OpinionGetting the hump
Following the selection of the winner of the Weston-super-Mare pier competition by the fashionably democratic X Factor, Strictly ad nauseum process (News October 24), I note the “plans” have to be approved by six assorted “authorities”. Only six?
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OpinionPrickly problems at Shanghai
Finding some meaningful content for the British pavilion at the 2010 expo brings back memories of the Millennium Dome
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OpinionThe changing face of banking – literally
The banks’ move from real to virtual money is reflected in what physical presence they have left
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OpinionShould the government speed up school rebuilding?
Yes, it will help us all, says BDP director Gavin Elliott; but Matt Bell, Cabe director of campaigns and education, fears that it would jeopardise quality
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OpinionExhibition Road will share space
Peter Somers (Letters October 17) thinks Kensington & Chelsea Council intends to “squander” £30 million to “pedestrianise” Exhibition Road — but there is no plan to pedestrianise Exhibition Road.
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OpinionWindow shopping
There are many admirable aspects of the refurbishment works at Trellick Tower (Solutions October 10), but the window replacement programme is not among them.
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Homes truths
Perhaps congratulations regarding the Stirling Prize winner (News October 17) should be offered first to the developer, Countryside Residential, for its foresight in appointing Feilden Clegg Bradley to prepare a scheme for the Brooklands Avenue site in Cambridge?
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War memories
Simon Henley described his practice’s design of Bagley Airfield clubhouse (First Look October 17) as “taking inspiration from the English country house”.
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Insider view
I wonder what support there would be for an Arb candidate who would be pragmatic, with no political axe to grind — apart from to make sure Arb is accountable, prudent and supports the profession?