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OpinionDot to dot results: October 10
The winner of last week’s competition was Amanda de Lussey of Faulkner Browns’ Newcastle office, who identified Fumihiko Maki’s Spiral House in Tokyo.
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After fort
Finally, big congratulations to Ken Shuttleworth and Clare Dexter, the ever-helpful press officer at HOK International, on the occasion of their marriage.
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OpinionTowers as old as building itself
Towers have been around for thousands of years. Which means we can certainly critique the current batch
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OpinionTough times need ingenuity
The housing and architecture ministers are taking the reins at a testing moment
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OpinionA green New Deal can tackle depression
Looming financial disaster might have unexpected social and environmental benefits
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OpinionOur carbuncles are too common
Amanda Baillieu observes that the architecture most people still get in their towns is, to paraphrase her inelegantly, crap (Leader October 3).
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Overthrow Arb
Architects have fallen under the heel and dictatorship of Arb, which is a government quango, the majority of its members being non-architects.
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Critical eye
It was a pleasure to read that William Curtis (Letters September 26) regards Oscar Niemeyer as “a major figure of Latin American and world architecture”.
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Victorian values
Your survey of the legacy of past periods of housing (Front page October 3) provides some important lessons.
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OpinionExpensive & dull
If a brief were given to design the most boring and expensive public square, the recent proposal for Parliament Square would surely have been the result.
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Class struggle
Yasmin Shariff should ask herself why the ratio of women in law and medicine is at 50% (Debate October 3).
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Cracked record
I have been an architect for about 20 years (feels like more) and the debate about Arb, its purpose and its value for money remains unchanged.
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Correction
Last week’s Carbuncle Cup story wrongly named Tektus Architects as the designer of Walton Street car park.
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Is the UK’s house-building model bust beyond repair?
Yes, says Tim Williams, the model was not producing enough homes even before the credit crunch; while John Slaughter argues that it was on a trajectory to deliver more
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Talk the walk
Architects who ran over time at this week’s Cityscape conference in Dubai met their match in Ken Livingstone.
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Not so grim
Speaking of which, Grimshaw’s US office in Manhattan is also shrugging off the extraordinary financial meltdown in nearby Wall Street.