More Comment – Page 222
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Energy shortage
Having just returned from Beijing, I feel compelled to communicate the sheer sense of energy in the Chinese capital.
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Step on it
Is it really acceptable to design a viewing platform (Solutions October 17) reached by stair with no lift access?
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Sky’s the limit
The campaign to resurrect Powell & Moya’s famous Skylon tower has moved to east London, Boots learns.
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OpinionCzech mate
Boots hears Jan Kaplicky has rejected an architecture award from the Czech Culture Ministry. Last week’s BD cover star is engaged in a bitter parting of ways with former partner Amanda Levete.
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OpinionDress sense
While brutalist tower blocks have their detractors, Clothkits, a Sussex based company that designs make-it-yourself cloth patterns for children’s clothes, rag dolls and such, has a new line in Trellick Tower designs.
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Jammy Lammy
Since leaving his architecture minister post in July 2007, David Lammy has been cultivating friends in high places.
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OpinionRing my bell
Zaha Hadid has wisely stopped turning up to the Stirling Prize having lost out twice, but had a presence of sorts on Saturday night when she rang her friend and judge Eva Jiricna to find out if it was third time lucky.
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OpinionInteresting offer
Introducing himself to the crowd at the Stirling Prize on Saturday night, Kevin McCloud quipped that he was “underpaid”
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OpinionWhat now – the bunker or the bike?
Never mind weeping and wailing — how are you going to get through the meltdown?
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OpinionCan Accordia really be a blueprint for housing?
Yes, says Keith Bradley one of the Stirling-Prize-winning development’s architects; but Alan Cherry, of the scheme’s developer Countryside Properties, disagrees
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Festival spirit
Allies & Morrison would have been well prepared for its moment of glory had it won on Saturday night.
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OpinionA bright side to dark times
Rather than give in to the economic gloom, architects can shape up for the future
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OpinionHousing needs a total rethink
With the recession and a construction slowdown, we have the opportunity to pause and reflect on our ability to build homes to meet future needs (Debate October 10).
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Standard bearer
I qualified in 1956 and ever since I can remember, architects have been in despair over the standards of design of our housing stock.
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Back to honesty
Now we all know that we’ve been living a dream as opposed to living the dream since the turn of the century, maybe it’s an opportune time for architecture to exorcise its own ghosts of the recent past?
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Doom street
“Pot calling the kettle black” is the phrase that springs to mind when Iain Tuckett, group director of Coin Street Community Builders, levels criticism at the willingness of English Heritage to consider legal action over Doon Street (News October 3) and the expense this necessarily involves.
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Street wise
The £18 million Parliament Square scheme (Letters October 10) is dwarfed by the £30 million to be squandered at Kensington & Chelsea on pedestrianising Exhibition Road.
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Make it clear
I was disturbed to read about another supposed eco-house (News October 3) which seems to disregard environmental considerations with a totally clear four-storey glazed facade.