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OpinionCruise control
Tom Cruise, below, is hiring Dubai’s newest aqua hotel, Atlantis on the Palm Jumeirah, for New Year’s Eve, Boots hears.
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Tangled web
Boots hopes Deborah Saunt’s burgeoning celebrity status hasn’t gone to her head.
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OpinionToast of the town
Boots was delighted to see Future Systems’ Selfridges in Birmingham has a starring role in a series of ads for north of England baker Warburton’s.
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Arb’s extra £8: worth it or not?
Can someone please tell me why it is worth my while remaining a member of Arb? With a 10% fee hike on the cards (News September 26), it reminds me of all the downsides to being a registered architect in this country.
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OpinionStirling masks the real issues
The Stirling Prize is great... but the man in the street wants quality public buildings, and architects must take responsibility
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OpinionJoin the transition from fear to hope
As peak oil and climate change threaten our way of life, transition towns look to the future
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OpinionWas Boris wrong to axe the Parliament Square scheme?
Yes, says Lib Dem peer Sally Hamwee, the revamp of Trafalgar Square shows what could be done with Parliament Square; no, says mayoral adviser Kulveer Ranger, the Hawkins Brown-led scheme was too costly and would have been an act of heritage vandalism
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OpinionArb inflation
The £8 rise in the Arb retention fee actually equates exactly to an inflation-indexed rise for each of the past three years, up from £76.50 in 2006 to £86 for 2009.
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Playing politics
I was horrified to read in BD last week of Arb’s plans to examine the replacement of elected architect members with those appointed by the government.
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Sensible savings
Jack Pringle and Amanda Baillieu are critical of Arb for having substantial reserves in the bank.
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Waste free
It is right to raise the retention fee increase as a matter of concern but wrong to suggest that Arb is on a spending spree.
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No style
With reference to your web video “Adam hails start of a classical revolution — traditional architecture prospers as New Palladians exhibition launches”, and several other recent articles in the architectural and national press, I would like to register my objection to the way the modern classical stylists have started appropriating ...
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On the job
Thanks for the half-term report (News Analysis September 19) and the headteacher’s note in the leader. I quite agree that it is among UK architects that perception of the RIBA is hard to shift.
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Tie breaker
Both correspondents missed the point in their answers to the question of architecture and the old boys’ club (Debate September 26).
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OpinionHodge dodge
Does Margaret Hodge’s desire to stand down from government mean a reprieve for Robin Hood Gardens?
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Going west
Never let it be said that shadow culture minister Ed Vaizey is afraid of upsetting developers.
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Salad days
A phone call to Terry Farrell’s office sparked a trip down memory lane for the architect.
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It's in the fabric
Renzo Piano’s San Francisco California Academy of Sciences has given a new meaning to rooting design in the environment.
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OpinionSlice of life
Forget GLA scrutiny, the litmus test for Boris’s first five months came with a gastronomic show-down with his predecessor.
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OpinionArb digs itself a deeper hole
Arb’s financial indulgence and bid to dump elections to its board only give more credence to its detractors