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OpinionDot to dot results: 28 March
The winner of last week’s competition is John Allum of Munday & Cramer in Chelmsford, who identified Eero Saarinen’s TWA terminal building at John F Kennedy airport, New York.
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Mayoral build-up
With the London mayoral race now at full throttle, Boots has a keen eye trained on Ken, Boris and Brian.
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Trapped in T5
As hundreds of architects and construction types gathered at AHMM’s groovy Westminster Academy for its opening last week, a major player was conspicuous by his absence — Nigel Hugill, chairman of Lend Lease Europe, one of Westminster’s more high profile champions.
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There’s ethics... and ethics
It’s good to see ethical issues debated in the pages of BD, but there is a danger of over-simplification.
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OpinionCabe’s Olympic subtext
Cabe’s supine praise for our hamstrung 2012 designs betrays its real fears of further assaults on creativity
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OpinionIt's all front
The smiling face of Margaret Hodge in last week’s BD was eclipsed by the bulkhead behind her screaming for attention through the Barking fenestration.
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OpinionShould western architects be taking on work in China?
Yes, we have a moral obligation to be part of a global solution says Scott Findlay; while William Menking argues that building in an oppressive regime is a political act
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OpinionBute, youre hired
Boots’ favourite aristocrat and architecture lover John Bute — who is considering a rescue bid for famed Scottish ruin St Peter’s Seminary — has shown a rather more populist touch by teaming up with Alan Sugar for the business guru’s latest series of The Apprentice.
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OpinionWho bears the brunt of this chaos?
Behind New York’s headline horrors lie old-fashioned tales of human greed and exploitation
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Reckless Erick
What planet is Erick van Egeraat on? The one thing we learn from history is that we don’t, and while Daniel Libeskind’s protest is a small one, I applaud it.
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Charity shopped
Most publications tend to shy away from the subject for fear of incurring the wrath of the Zionist movement/ lobby.
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Town downer
As a life-long resident of Barking, I am all too aware that Margaret Hodge doesn’t get into town very much, unless of course there is a camera about for her to beam into.
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Poor on detail
Saul Metzstein (Opinion March 14) rather glides over the change of tenure in Keeling House as a key factor in how this building was “rescued”.
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Conduct of code
Last week’s Debate made me consider what the point of the Code for Sustainable Homes is.
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Correction
An editing error crept into last week’s Debate: 20-40 tonnes of carbon dioxide, not carbon monoxide, are emitted when building a home.
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OpinionDot to dot results: 20 March
Last week’s competition winner was Paul Middleton of Partnerships for Schools, who identified Mother’s House by Robert Venturi.
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Long falls short
Boots raised an eyebrow at the latest issue of GQ Style, the glossy bible of fashionable homoerotica.
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Who's in charge?
Former Cabe chairman Stuart Lipton was representing the little known Major Developers Group at a top level DCLG seminar at Cabe HQ this week.