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Opinion
Principled stand
Good to see that Arb isn’t shying away from the big issues of the day. On the agenda at last week’s board meeting: should Arb continue its historical policy of not using the RIBA’s headquarters for meetings?
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OpinionParty lines
Boots was surprised not to see Terence Conran’s business partner Des Gunewardena at the Conran summer party last week, although the two are now moving in opposite directions.
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OpinionThe trouble with Aussies
Australians may make good planners, but they don’t stick around to see a project through
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OpinionCounter culture
Margaret Hodge has listed two branches of Kennedy’s, the 140-year-old chain of butcher shops in south London, where she grew up, for their fashionable art deco features such as polished glass signs, granite stallrisers, sunburst transom lights, and original green and yellow tiled walls with marble counters, wooden cabinets and ...
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OpinionWe must break out of this prison cycle
Prisons don’t work — it’s been shown time and again. So why do we keep building them?
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OpinionCreativity is part of sustainability
Pooran Desai’s excellent contribution to your debate on sustainability (May 9) was concise and clear. Designing a building that requires minimum energy, water, and damage to the environment while giving maximum comfort and a more “natural” ambience is obviously creative. If journo-miserablist Austin Williams wants to attack the factors ...
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Contracts cost
Your coverage of the RIBA and ACA row over forms of contract (News May 9), makes some excellent points but fails to note the issue of cost.
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Master’s voice
Like Richard Rogers, I was “critted” by Peter Smithson at the AA in the fifties.
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Reference points
Three points in Ellis Woodman’s review of Corpus Christi’s new Taylor Library (Works May 16) need clarification.
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Dot to dot results: May 16
The winner of last week’s competition was Neil Green of Ainsley Gommon Architects, Flintshire, who identified Paul Rudolph’s Milam House in Jacksonville, Florida.
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OpinionHas EH bowed to political pressure on Robin Hood?
Commissioners feared the reaction if they supported listing says Catherine Croft, director of the Twentieth Century Society; no, this building just doesn’t make the grade, argues EH chairman Sandy Bruce-Lockhart
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Place in the sun
Despite BD's revelation that Norman Foster has moved to Switzerland, the architect and peer has been honoured at the patriotic Sun newspaper’s Britain’s Best 2008 awards, for “his ground-breaking designs around the world”.
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Word in his ear
While rumours continue about who will get the job of advising mayor Boris on architecture, Boots reckons that informal tips may already be winging their way to Bozza from that master of minimalism John Pawson, who lives next door to the mayor’s sister Rachel!
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Labour pain
Richard Rogers’ increasingly political role is not to everyone’s liking if a recent profile in the New Statesman is anything to go by.
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OpinionPutting politics over heritage
English Heritage is favouring self-preservation at the expense of protecting post-war architecture
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OpinionIn terms of place-making, it’s a wrap
Rather than taking urban design forward, are ‘wrapped’ superstores a dead end?
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OpinionHave computers damaged architects’ design quality?
Yes, as students lose drawing skills and the feel for a building, says Peter Eisenmann; No, look at the concepts they open architects’ minds to, says Neil Spiller
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OpinionSchool design does matter
You probably can’t make a good school out of wonderful buildings and poor teachers (Opinion May 9). You probably can make a good school out of wonderful teachers and poor buildings. But the link between building design and educational performance is real, and teachers as well as architects make this ...
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Light fantastic
I agree that rebuilding a school will not necessarily make any difference to its performance. However, having worked on school design for 17 years, I can say that in certain situations, a better design can have an effect.