More Comment – Page 247
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Question of taste
Liverpool’s status as cultural capital of Europe is having a galvanising effect on its catering.
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Modesty blazes
Having failed to have his Ideas Store put forward for the Stirling Prize two years ago, David Adjaye is keen that his talents aren’t overlooked again.
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Finishing touch
Hans van der Heijden’s talk in Liverpool last week, the first in BD’s 2008 lecture series, was on his very fine addition to the grade I listed Bluecoat.
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Lift and separate
After Kent School of Architecture gave students the task of designing a torture chamber, those in the North-west are next to have an eye-popping brief handed down to them.
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OpinionRIBA: proud of our brand
I read last week’s BD at my Knoll kitchen table as I ate my Scott’s Porage Oats which I selected over Kellogg’s Corn Flakes.
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Lesson from MK
Amid the often depressing housing that has been rolled out across the green fields in Milton Keynes over many years, there has always been one reliable high point: the design of local schools.
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Credibility gap
The fact that schools deemed unfit for purpose by Cabe have been awarded planning permission is, according to a BSF manager (News, February 29), a poor reflection on the Cabe process.
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Design for living
I was moved to read the 1,000 names of the members of my principled profession united against the demolition of Robin Hood Gardens. It seems to me, however, that we have the obvious solution here.
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Time to go
Robin Hood Gardens is indeed a seminal work in the modernist tradition but this is exactly why it should go.
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Too much sex
Call me a fuddy duddy if you wish, but the RIBA debate, This house believes there should be more sex in architecture, is diabolical and banal (Boots March 7).
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Fair’s fair
Your story on Highland Homes Fair contains claims that local residents and politicians were not consulted during the planning phase.
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OpinionDot to dot answer: March 7
The winner of last week’s competition was Jane Donoghue of Anderson Bell Christie in Glasgow, who identified Barcelona Pavilion by Mies van der Rohe.
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OpinionConsultation on Robin rocked
In response to your editorial (A demolition job on the truth, February 29), I refute BD’s claims about the consultation with tenants at Robin Hood Gardens, and the behaviour of English Partnerships and Tower Hamlets Council.
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OpinionLets talk about...
Sex is not a word one usually associates with the RIBA, but could this be about to change?
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OpinionWit in Whitman
Your feature on Whitman College at Princeton by Porphyrios Associates (Works February 29) was a delight.
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OpinionA woman’s home is her sandcastle
An innovative design project is providing mass housing for Cape Town’s urban poor
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OpinionShould the government list Robin Hood Gardens?
It’s a seminal building with an international reputation, argues Catherine Croft; it’s a dog of a building, counters Robert Sakula
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OpinionFight this loopy legislation
We need to resist the government’s misguided urge to dictate what sort of houses people want
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Spirit of place
Margaret Hodge’s test that modern architecture should be loved if it is to qualify for listing should at least justify consideration for Robin Hood Gardens because it is loved by many architects and others who are interested in urban design and architecture.