More Comment – Page 238
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Waste watcher
So Chiltern Management wants to develop the unloved Beckton Alp for a luxury hotel to open in time for the Olympics (News May 30)?
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Blind spot
I was going to launch a staunch defence of Neil Spiller (Letters May 30) and the work of the Avatar group.
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Pathetic award
The South Bank Centre stuck a plinth of glass-fronted shops onto a very special grade I modernist London landmark, the Royal Festival Hall, and got a special RIBA public space award (News May 30).
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Correction
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands designed Harvey Nichols’ restaurants and food halls in Manchester and Edinburgh, not at its Leeds and Edinburgh branches as stated in “Dramatic overheads” (BD Magazine Retail May 2008).
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OpinionProvincial power does exist
Ruth Reed’s regional moan is out of date: government devolution and technology have bestowed a different power outside London
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OpinionAn Obama win is a monumental need
Chicago’s unsung Hyde Park area has an interest in seeing a president Obama
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OpinionDoes the RIBA do enough for regional architects?
Former RIBA president George Ferguson is convinced that it does, but presidential hopeful Ruth Reed feels it fails to do enough
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OpinionThis building has world value
I have written to Leicester University’s senior building surveyor Jim Whait to add my voice to those of my colleagues around the world who are deeply concerned about the threat to the Leicester Engineering Building designed by James Stirling and James Gowan.
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Kindest cuts
In his column on architects’ autobiographies (May 16), Jonathan Glancey suggests that George Gilbert Scott Jr “edited out what must have been all the really good bits” from Sir Gilbert’s Personal and Professional Recollections.
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Out of this world
I knew architectural education was bad but I didn’t really appreciate how far down the plughole it had gone until I read the barely intelligible cyberbabble nonsense by Neil Spiller (IT May 16).
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Local heroes
Of course Amanda Baillieu in her leader (May 23) is right to take apart the pitiful mess the planning system is in. However, she oversteps the mark when she pillories all local politicians.
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OpinionStaying power
Perhaps the question raised in your news story should be not so much: “Why are the Australians going home and leaving us in the lurch?” but rather: “Why are we reliant on Australians in the first place, and what can we do to encourage them to stay?”
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Yo, cobber
Strewth, mates, the blinkin’ Poms have only gone and sprung Canberra’s plans to make their country even more crook!
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Dot to dot results: 23 May 2008
The winner of last week’s competition was Eike Danz from Foster & Partners, who correctly identified the history faculty at Cambridge University by James Stirling.
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Stranger abroad
Foster & Partners’ Berlin office received an unexpected call recently from a confused English gentleman on a cycling holiday in southern Germany.
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Hue and cry
Writing about postwar housing in last week’s Regeneration & Renewal magazine, Urban Splash’s Nick Johnson said he “remained unmoved by the recent furore in architectural circles over Robin Hood Gardens”...
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OpinionClassic case
Boots hears that next month’s spanking new London Architecture Festival will be opened by mayor Boris Johnson. Bozza is certainly a catch but he will surely have to tone down his message.
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OpinionCast adrift
Tuesday’s private view of Psycho Buildings at the Hayward was notable for one thing: queues.