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OpinionAre architecture schools turning into factory farms?
The uniform teaching programme of many schools will create “tasteless chickens”, says Tim Ronalds; while Richard Hayward argues that schools remain almost entirely free-range
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The secrets out
Well, blow me down! Now that English Heritage has to look again at its decision over Robin Hood Gardens, evidence has emerged that its boss, Simon Thurley, has never liked the building.
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Still singing
Norman Lamont must be relieved to no longer hold the keys to the Exchequer, what with the storms battering the current chancellor.
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Public private
Boots has been keeping watch on the Public, the arts centre in West Bromwich designed by Will Alsop which has yet to receive a paying visitor!
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OpinionPlease ditch the mudslinging
Don’t let this autumn’s Le Corbusier and Palladio shows be used to settle old scores
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OpinionBathing machine
Swimming hats off to Ian Dungavell, whose epic swim in every listed Edwardian and Victorian pool in Britain — one length for each year they’ve been open — is to end today at Dulwich Leisure Centre.
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OpinionSo, who do we think we are?
London’s contribution to Beijing’s closing ceremony gave a confusing message
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OpinionManhattan receives a special delivery
Five suburban houses in a New York parking lot can show us the future of prefabrication
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OpinionDon’t judge the RIBA awards
The RIBA awards are the most robust and rigorously judged in architecture.
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A tip for Kevin
From BD’s front page (News August 8), we find the lure of television used as another way to get architects to work “at risk” (for free).
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An open mind
Robert McGinnes (Letters August 8), you are correct — in only some of what you say.
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OpinionClosed memorial
It is rather surprising that the Royal Parks, which ran the design team competition for the 7/7 memorial, has accepted a design which one can “wander through” (News August 8).
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Model students
Interesting to see Robert Aish migrating to Autodesk from Bentley, where he started GC parametric modelling, I believe (Practice: IT August 15).
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OpinionDot to dot results: August 15
The winner of last issue’s competition was Malcolm Hay of Worcestershire County Council Property Services, who identified Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion House in Wichita, Kansas.
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Feeling the pain
More than 5,000 experts congregated at Glasgow's Scottish Exhibition & Conference Centre last week for an event that can hardly have been the most cheerful in town.
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Language lesson
The Welsh School of Architecture is puffing out its chest after former student Bryony Shaw, who has put her degree on hold to concentrate on the sport, scooped a bronze medal in windsurfing at the Beijing Olympics last week.
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Trellick 2012
Still with the Olympics, fans of postwar British housing were given a treat during the London 2012 handover film at Beijing’s closing ceremony, with the surprise appearance of Erno Goldfinger’s Trellick Tower.
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Stony greeting
Those behind the UK’s new Supreme Court — the Middlesex Guildhall on Parliament Square — are grappling with the question of public art.
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OpinionShould Saarinen’s American Embassy building be listed?
Yes, says Docomomo’s Dennis Sharp, it’s well scaled and well weathered; no, says Westminster’s Robert Davis, it’s a mess inside, mediocre on the outside, and not historically important