More Comment – Page 229
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OpinionAn Olympic-sized mistake
Policy Exchange’s ideas on northern decline have a lot to say about prospects, but not a lot about people
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OpinionIs losing the bid now a better option?
Convoluted EU procurement rules are a circle of hell. Let’s junk them and start again
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OpinionShould architects ever offer to work for free?
Yes, it’s a long term investment, says Ben Addy of Moxon, but Ian Simpson believes it makes no business sense
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OpinionMcCloud: No chaos at Hab
I am writing to correct some of the points made in your news article and editorial about Hab Oakus LLP (News August 8).
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Max happy
In response to last week’s story on Hab (News August 8), Max Fordham Consulting Engineers would like to state that we remain wholeheartedly committed to the Hab project and its ongoing effort to deliver innovative and sustainable designs to improve the quality of housebuilding in the UK.
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Brains trust
How very sad that architecture’s own Eeyore has encountered construction (“Kevin McCloud’s own ‘grand design’ in chaos”, News August 8).
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Eating disorder
From Carolyn Steel’s opinion piece on August 1, it sounds as if she and housing minister Caroline Flint would strike a few sparks.
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Social contract
Saul Metzstein is spot on about the corrosive effects of the media casually linking postwar architecture and crime (Opinion August 8).
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Poor class
It’s all very well for BD to rave about the “pigeon fanciers’ hangout in Sheffield” (Class of 2008, August 8), but you won’t have to clear up the crap.
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OpinionGirls aloud please
Perhaps the announcement of Ruth Reed’s election victory came too late to push a slightly dull article — sorry, “scoop” — about Design for London’s final demise off the front page (August 1), but it deserves more than just a few inches on page five.
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Web of intrigue
Is a chink appearing in the corporate armour of Swiss architect Herzog & de Meuron?
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Chipping in
CZWG Architects has joined jelly-mould specialist Bompass & Parr on its latest design-led food caper.
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OpinionSilly season
Are the idle August days going to architects’ heads? First Boots hears reports that 5th Studio has been hanging about at Walthamstow dog track, scoffing chips and trying to win a bob or two.
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Knives are out
Meanwhile, Alsop’s latest designs in the Far East — a sales office for Raffles City and a shopping mall in Beijing — are causing a stir, and not in a good way.
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OpinionThe future of the skyscraper?
New York-based eVolo Architecture has published a book on the future of the skyscraper, presenting the best 60 projects arising from an ideas competition the firm has been running annually since 2006.
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So unfair it’s all based on flair
I graduated about seven years ago, and from day one we had been taught the basics of important areas of construction and theoretical design.
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Waking the dead
Sue Roaf makes reference to the Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists and comments made at the Oxford Conference (Letters August 1).
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Planning to fail
In response to Phil Kirby’s defence of planning services (Debate August 1), most applications are not dealt with by elected representatives but farmed out to the “private sector” in the form of paid planning officers making decisions under delegated powers.