More Comment – Page 232
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Cunning plan
In the light of the RIBA report on planning, is it time to run a regular feature on planning nightmares — nominate your worst local planning authority and so on.
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Broken greens
While it is encouraging to see the industry delivering more sustainable buildings, confusion exists over how green building credentials are rated.
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Spitting shame
The British summer put paid to the al fresco supper planned for the opening of Gehry’s pavilion at the Serpentine last week.
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Marathon man
The Victorian Society hopes to make a splash with its campaign to highlight the remaining 13 working and listed Victorian and Edwardian swimming pools in England.
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Party politics
Boots is putting on her dancing shoes next Saturday and heading for Birmingham’s Botanical Gardens to join staff and students, past and present, from the city’s architecture school in celebrating its centenary year
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OpinionIs Banksy a better role model?
RMJM’s offer of £1 million to help turn street graffiti artists into architects is well meant and generous, but is it really helpful?
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OpinionThings to ponder on the sun lounger
HMSO can offer some different holiday reading, but its plot lines and endings will let you down
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OpinionShould the Skylon be rebuilt 60 years after the original?
Yes, it was an important and beautiful icon says Jack Pringle, but writer and blogger Owen Hatherley says the politics are all wrong
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OpinionBlame it on the Arts Council
Ellis Woodman’s review of The Public in West Bromwich (Works July 4) fails to appreciate the main aspiration of the project: digital art and art in general as a catalyst for economic, urban and cultural regeneration.
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Us and them
Abe Hayeem (Letters July 11) would have liked the UIA to “censure” the Israel Institute of Architects at Turin, drawing odious comparisons with Mugabe.
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OpinionUnfit objection
In 2004 English Heritage failed to list to list the much missed Tricorn Centre in Portsmouth, designed in 1962 by the Owen Luder Partnership, using the same “not fit for purpose” argument as it employed on Robin Hood Gardens (News July 4).
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PM’s questions
News that Boris Johnson is to reinstate Parker Morris housing space standards in London (News July 4) is welcome.
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No taste of honey
Did anyone catch the London Architecture Festival’s so-called “Royal Festival Hive” last weekend, Boots wonders?
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Terse verse
Following BD’s front page exclusive last week, diners at a fundraiser on Tuesday for the Save Shoreditch campaign were treated to a rip-roaring rallying cry of a ditty by East End bard Patrick Hughes.
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OpinionCalled to account
ODA chief executive David Higgins is rightly concerned with the bottom line, but surely his toast to the Worshipful Company of Chartered Architects’ dinner in the City of London last week went a little too far.
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Protest singer
The summer seems to have barely begun but already the silly season has arrived for national newspaper stories about architecture.
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Bootleg bikers
Straight after performing live at Architecture Rocks at London’s Bloomsbury Ballroom tonight (Friday), two of the Bootleg Lilos will load up drum kit and guitars to set off for their next gig at the Wickerman Festival in Dumfries & Galloway, where they’ll be warming up for Gary Newman and KT ...
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OpinionTowers set the test for Boris
Mayor Johnson’s reaction to the proposed high-rise cluster of towers in Shoreditch will give an early indication of his real vision for London