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OpinionWelcome to the Gulf, your crunch-beating destination
Dubai resident Peter Cooper on why the Gulf is a good bet for architects in tough times
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OpinionClassic designs put politics in a spin
What hidden messages lie in the architecture of the stages for the US presidential contest?
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Does architecture operate like an old boys’ club?
Of course — look at the figures, says Dennis Sharp partner Yasmin Shariff, but Marks Barfield director Frank Anatole believes things are changing
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OpinionA tasty deal on salary is still possible
Kate Hilpern has the lowdown on the latest architects’ salary survey
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OpinionCabe criteria need quality too
Following my letter (September 12) about Cabe criteria, I should like to point out two puzzling contradictions in last week’s Opinion piece by Cabe deputy chairman Paul Morrell.
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Peril in Venice
Having just returned from the Venice biennale, I find it very difficult to summarise to colleagues any coherent thoughts or themes that became apparent during my walk around the Arsenale.
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Man’s world?
I am intrigued to know why Paul King’s task force to draw up the new new Code for Sustainable Buildings (News September 19) is entirely made up of men. Do UK women have nothing to contribute to this topic?
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Flair despair
Touring several architects’ own houses during Open House this weekend, it is obvious that there is a lot of talent out there, much of which has been strangled by planners.
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OpinionBook misquoted?
In his review of Styliane Philippou’s Oscar Niemeyer: Curves of Irreverence (Culture September 12), Richard Weston apparently follows Philippou’s lead in lumping me together with “detractors” of the Brasilian architect.
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Stop philistines
I am disappointed that “leading architects” such as George Ferguson have minced words about people like John Callcutt and the housebuilding industry.
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He’s no Scot
Contrary to Kathryn Findlay’s and popular belief (Scotland: A Celebration September 12), Catherine the Great’s architect, Charles Cameron, was no Scot but the son of a London builder.
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OpinionWhat’s cooking?
Was it Brian Clarke, chairman of the Architecture Foundation, who came up with its next lecture series on the painter Francis Bacon, whose retrospective has just opened at Tate Britain?
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Happy families
Bonds between the Alsop and Clifford families can only get stronger, Boots feels, following news that Will Alsop is to restart work on the Mermaid Theatre redevelopment for Malory Clifford’s Blackfriars Investments.
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Mother of rows
Critics of the post-games plan for the Olympic park are pointing the finger at Design for London, which is responsible for the legacy scheme.
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OpinionPrepare to fight your corner
As recession looms, it is up to architects to ensure that planning consultants don’t take away more of their work
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OpinionWe need a starting point to get better
Cabe sets a standard for good school design, and one response from the architectural community — there is no such thing, of course, but it will do as a shorthand — is that the procurement process has to be sorted out before a quality standard can be adopted.