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OpinionWhat we can learn from Apple’s recipe
We’ll all happily adapt our behaviour for a portable gadget. Why not for buildings too?
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OpinionIs BSF transforming the standard of school design?
Yes, if education authorities have vision, says Robert Firth; not while delivery is through the private sector, counters Dominic Cullinan
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In the swing
Your report (News July 4) on the RIBA Trust/Intelligence2 Debate event which proposed “modern architecture is still all glass stumps are carbuncles” did not record the real point in the voting.
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Out of touch
RIBA president Sunand Prasad and the architectural elite, including BD, have again shown themselves to be out of touch with a significant proportion of the RIBA and Arb membership, as well as an overwhelming majority of the British public, in their continuing campaign to have Robin Hood Gardens listed (News ...
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Poor defence
BD’s increasingly frantic campaign to halt the demolition of Robin Hood Gardens does a disservice to the reputation of architects in the eyes of the public, which sees it as the archetypal 1960s ugly concrete monstrosity.
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Social contract
In a 1974 article in Architectural Design entitled The violent consumer, Alison Smithson queried the wisdom of basing socialist ideals on the values of the English middle class. Do we have a choice?
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Value added
I see this year’s crop of AA students have designed “Swoosh” to grace Bedford Square.
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Tell your story
Since St Christopher’s Hospice opened in Sydenham in 1967, more than 250 others have been established. Some claim the modern hospice is a new building type.
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Dot to dot results: July 4
Last week’s competition winner was Shelley Bruce of Vancouver, Canada, who identified Lawn Road Flats in Hampstead, north London, by Wells Coates and so receives a copy of Vanishing America: the End of Main Street by Michael Eastman.Dot to dot results: July 4
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OpinionDeath toll
The London Architecture Festival’s Greening Bays competition last week, organised by Ramboll Whitbybird, showcased 14 “intervention” designs for a parking space to provoke discussion on the space given up to motors in our cities.
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Howe’s that?
Boots may in the past have suggested that Sunand Prasad was less than forthright in his views, but never underestimate the quiet man of Portland Place.
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OpinionFrank speaking
Boots hears that, freshly flown in from sunny California, Frank Gehry was in no mood to make life easy at the press unveiling of his Serpentine pavilion.
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Chips is off
A new café developed by Jane Wood and Sophie Murray, respectively wife and daughter of LFA director Peter, opens in Littlehampton this month to much anticipation.
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Jilted John
To Northumbria, where the National Trust is campaigning to restore Seaton Delaval Hall.
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OpinionParker Morris needs updating
Three cheers for “Boris pledges to reinstate Parker Morris standards” (News June 27).
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Slow motion
The failure of International Union of Architects’ (UIA) representatives to propose a motion to censure Israel for breaches of its professional and ethical charter, and the country’s well documented flouting of international law is like Africa’s reluctance to criticise Mugabe.
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OpinionStirling scoops
Could David Chipperfield pull off a second Stirling win with his impeccably crafted gallery in Berlin?
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OpinionHodge plays philistine hand
By not listing Robin Hood Gardens, Margaret Hodge has betrayed the government’s prejudice against modern buildings and its contempt for architects
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OpinionHuman touch can revive social housing
As Robin Hood Gardens fails to win a reprieve, we must find ways to use ageing concrete estates
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OpinionCarbuncle queen
Former newsreader Anna Ford (pictured), who chaired this week’s London Architecture Festival debate on Prince Charles, was struggling to retain that famous objectivity, Boots was amused to see.