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Opinion
Power struggle
I was surprised to read that a CHP plant is to be installed at Transport for London’s Palestra building in Blackfriars Road (News May 2).
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OpinionDot to dot results: May 2
The winner of last week’s competition was Douglas Read of Edinburgh, who identified Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Hill House in Dunbartonshire.
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OpinionNo comment
New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, over here to give the capital’s new mayor Boris a few tips on how to run a big city, has pulled out of the London Festival of Architecture’s big debate on the future of cities, due to take place at the Royal Festival Hall on ...
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Book shopped
Rumours were rife last week that the RIBA’s anthology, Le Corbusier and Britain, might never appear in print after architectural publisher Merrell decided the text was “too specialist”.
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City slipper
BD likes to be first with the news and left RIBA presidential candidate Andrew Hanson more than a little surprised this week by revealing that Paul Davis had withdrawn from the race.
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Hodge dodge
Boots thought David Lammy was the architecture minister with the least to say on the subject, but could successor Margaret Hodge be following his lead?
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OpinionKitchen devil
The fascinating insight into Will Alsop’s kitchen for those of us who read last weekend’s Observer magazine failed to explain the half drunk bottle of red wine on the kitchen table that had — just half an hour before the picture was taken — started life as a full ...
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OpinionAfter Robin Hood Gardens: help Bishopsfield too
A letter to BD from Bishopsfield residents group highlights the threat to Neylan and Ungless's 1960's estate
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OpinionPrince asks questions of China
Prince Charles is trying positive engagement to influence China’s heritage, but will it help make up for snubbing the Games?
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Star bucks
As BD went to press, the future of the mayoral architectural adviser Richard Rogers was unclear.
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Poor plot
Last month’s Housing issue of BD Magazine includes features on The Bridge (multi-material, multicoloured housing for people and birds, insufficient space for essential means of transport), Silvertown (greeny, gardeny, dusty, debris-ridden cladding needs replacement in 25 years), and Evelyn Road (lack of ventilation, exterior design badly affects internal function).
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OpinionRed mist over the Beijing Olympics
Attempts by politicians to bask in the glow of the Olympic flame always end in tears
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OpinionAre today’s engineers the new architects?
Yes, says Peter Sharratt, director at WSP, if we want to meet the challenges of sustainability; no, says Sheppard Robson’s Alan Shingler, because one solves problems, the other adds beauty
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Partners, please
Your report “Gateway needs single delivery body, say experts” (News April 25), completely misrepresents my views about the delivery of the Thames Gateway project.
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Great teamwork
Peter Wilson (Letters April 25) quotes Lord Fraser in support of your claim that the Scottish Parliament Team was dysfunctional and that this added to costs and delays.
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Liverpool cares
In your front page story “EH acts to save historic buildings in Liverpool” (News March 20), you write that English Heritage has “toughened its stance in recent months”, and that Liverpool has been “shamed into action”.
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Tesco's threat
Tesco may not yet match Wal-Mart in the US for trampling on community life in the cause of “retail rationalisation” but Jonathan Glancey (April 25) rightly highlights its persistent determination to ruin Hadleigh in Suffolk.
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OpinionWayne's a winner
Judging by April’s BD Magazine on housing, Wayne Hemingway’s mission to revitalise the design quality of new UK housing goes from strength to strength.
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OpinionDot to dot results: April 25
The winner of last week’s competition was Silvanos Goyea of BDP, Sheffield, who identified Villa Tugendhat in the Czech Republic by Mies van der Rohe.
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Not the Norm
Norman Foster’s tax arrangements, revealed in BD last week, have raised hackles in the profession, even those of former RIBA presidents, it seems.