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OpinionDesign wobble?
Has anyone else noticed that flicking from the Practice page to the Archive picture (BD September 5) gives a good indication of the extent to which a designer’s responsibilities have changed… even if the bottom of the ladder is “adequately secured”?Bryan Scott, Hitchin, Hertfordshire
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Honour bound?
Norman Foster is doing his bit for the reputation of British architects as rude no-shows when he failed to turn up to a select gathering, including Ian McEwan and Nobel prizewinner Martin Evans, at University College London last week, where he was due to pick up an honorary degree.
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OpinionWorld in action
In the run-up to the opening of the Venice Biennale, the Giardini has been a hive of activity over past weeks.
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Naked truth
An architect couple in India have enraged a man in his sixties to such an extent that he performed an extraordinary naked protest in court this week.
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OpinionGet Agrippa
One resident among the herds who flocked to Westminster council’s hearing on Chelsea Barracks last Thursday night was quick to point out the link between mayor Boris Johnson and his adviser “Agrippa”, aka Richard Rogers (pictured).
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OpinionThe Venice Biennale has become reflection of the state architecture is in
It may be unfair to compare the most important and expensive scientific experiment the world has ever known with a two-month-long architecture extravaganza, but the real cultural event of this week was not the opening of the Venice Biennale but the switching on of the Large Hadron Collider.
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OpinionThe broken heart of east Greenwich
What used to be Greenwich District Hospital is now a vast, overgrown wasteland
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OpinionBritish Council/BD survey: Is the UK in a state of housing crisis?
Housing in Britain is never far from the headlines – and it is under the spotlight again in the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
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OpinionUnesco is right to be worried
I am delighted that Koïchiro Matsuura has visited Edinburgh and put brakes on the Caltongate project (News August 29).
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OpinionSean’s seminary
Some may be disappointed that Sean Connery’s new memoir, Being a Scot, doesn’t dish any Hollywood dirt, but Boots was much more interested to read his thoughts on architecture.
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OpinionDog dinner
Calling all hot dog lovers! Architects at CZWG are limbering up for a hot dog eating championship, happening during the interval of a drive-in screening of Pulp Fiction at Abergavenny Food Festival.
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Wholly Trinity
I enjoyed your piece on Rodney Gordon (News August 29). As a new student of architecture, I attended a premier of Get Carter in Newcastle hours after visiting the Trinity Centre.
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Great Lakes
The Wordsworth Trust Centre may be the only modern building in Cumbria to grace your pages, (Works August 29) but it isn’t unique.
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OpinionTakes the biscuit
Do you have a Pedants’ Corner? The red double-decker bus in the Olympics closing ceremony was not a “trusty Routemaster” (Leader August 29) — if only! It was one of that latter-day variety classifiable as “biscuit tin”.
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Planning bypass
The planning process has become so lengthy, complicated and bureaucratic that unscrupulous developers have found an effective method of obtaining planning permissions. They simply ignore the planning system.
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Much to learn
Both Robert McGinnes (Letters August 8) and A Marsden (Letters 29) are slightly missing the point.
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OpinionWearing well
I can’t believe that was me in July 1978, sitting next to Sam Webb and Clare Frankl at the RIBA Liverpool conference (Archive August 29).
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OpinionDot to dot results: August 29
Last week’s competition winner was John G Ellis of Urban Design Solomon ETC in San Francisco, who identified Louis Kahn's Kimbell Art Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas.
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OpinionThe real truth is: you are where you eat
Last week’s ‘fat map’ of Britain set a challenge for architects and planners