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OpinionIcing on the cake
Buildings, furniture, shoes, perfume and now baking — is there no end to Zaha’s skills?
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Brought to book
Hold on to your handbags, ladies — at least when young architects are around.
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OpinionA new climate for schools?
Sunand Prasad is right (News July 25). The lack of any real examination, as he states, of “normal life” from our schools of architecture is I agree “intellectual dereliction”.
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Town and gown
A disappointing statement from the RIBA president at the Oxford Conference echoed an age-old argument between practice and education.
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Think differently
It is disappointing that your headline does not reflect the real substance of Sunand Prasad’s address.
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Positive focus
I was a little surprised at your selective reporting on English Heritage’s formal response to RMJM’s planning application for the new headquarters for City of York Council (News July 18).
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Square dance
I disagree with the comments from the members of the House of Lords about Parliament Square (News July 18).
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Overexposed
Intriguing that Gillespie, Kidd & Coia was included as a culprit in Tony Leitch’s rather excitable critique of the “raw concrete aesthetic” of sixties buildings (Letters July 25).
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Battersea failure
Leaving aside the complete inappropriateness of the Viñoly proposals for Battersea Power Station (News July 18), the predominate failure, as with all predecessors, is that none have actually addressed a solution for the use of the power station itself.
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OpinionDid the festival miss a trick?
This year’s London Festival of Architecture was great fun and a huge achievement, but it could have had a clearer message
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OpinionOut on the town
The Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment has been asked to advise on the design of an eco-town near Nottingham, but is chief exec Hank Dittmar fully on-message?
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OpinionWhy nothing’s as simple as it seems
What do the US gun lobby and Buckminster Fuller have in common?
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OpinionIdentity crisis
Jacques Herzog may be one of the world’s most famous architects, but Tate Modern press officers are struggling to recognise him.
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OpinionDo we care who wins this year’s Stirling Prize?
Of course, it’s important, says double winner and Wilkinson Eyre director Chris Wilkinson, but Mantownhuman’s Alistair Donald laments the conformism the prize represents
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OpinionSkills for BSF schools are here
“Architects blamed for unsustainable schools” shouts your headline (News July 18)
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Brutal truth
Lurking beneath Celia Clarke’s plea to reuse buildings (Letters July 18) was yet another cry for more respect for sixties buildings by exponents such as Gillespie Kidd & Coia, Owen Luder, Chalk Herron and others whose raw concrete aesthetic set up a public distaste for we architects.
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Concrete division
Anne Power (Opinion July 4) gives a clear, intelligent summary of the issues surrounding post-war public housing — thought-provoking and so relevant!
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Unkind words
Further to your leader (July 18) on RMJM’s £1 million support package to encourage more youngsters from black and ethnic minorities into architecture, the statistic that only 2% of practising architects in Britain are non-white is a shocking indictment of our industry and possibly makes it the last bastion of ...