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Apocalypse then
It is interesting to see the profession closing ranks behind the Smithsons’ threatened — or is it doomed? — Robin Hood Gardens, but am I alone in thinking that it is a bit of a monster?
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Turn over Leaf
As a fellow Ealing resident, I support Gordon Mitchell’s denunciation of the proposals for our town centre (Letters February 29).
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Boot in mouth
BBC Scotland did indeed screen the documentary about Richard Rogers in full last week (Boots February 29), although it was perhaps a little later in the schedule than advertised.
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Modest proposal
I am young, fit and below average height. I have no friends or relations who are old or disabled, or if I have, they don’t visit, and I have nothing upstairs for them to use.
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Correction
Wilkinson Eyre will be preserving two walls of Bath’s 19th century Newark Works for its Dyson Academy scheme rather than one as reported in News February 22.
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OpinionDot to Dot answer: February 29
The winner of last week’s dot-to-dot competition is Yuan Zhang of Sheffield University, who identified Sydney Opera House.
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Prom queen
Good to see that architecture minister Margaret Hodge’s populist instinct extends further than just the built environment.
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Balancing act
Boots can’t help but feel a smidgen of sympathy for Robert Torday, ex-PR supremo at Richard Rogers’, who is now defending English Partnerships’ involvement at Robin Hood Gardens.
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OpinionBlogging cyclists arrive in Cannes
140 cyclists rode to this year's Mipim property fair to raise £500,000 for charity. This is the blog they kept along the route
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OpinionRobin Hood Gardens and the state of post-war listing
Listing post-war buildings has always been a point of contention, says Alan Powers, but in the case of Robin Hood Gardens there should be no argument
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OpinionSnap judgment
While BD is campaigning to save Robin Hood Gardens, Royal Academicians have turned their attention to Evans & Shalev’s Newport High School (pictured), which the local authority plans to demolish.
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OpinionArchitects love totalitarians
At last a top architect has taken an “ethical stance” about working in China and other countries where democracy and human rights are violated (News February 15).
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OpinionHats on to Rem
So you’ve designed a string of internationally recognised masterpieces, and have a Pritzker Prize and an RIBA gold medal on your mantlepiece.
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OpinionListing can fail
I wish I could share your optimism over the effectiveness of listing to protect post-war buildings (News February 22).
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OpinionShould all housing design take account of old age?
Future-proofed houses will stop us being forced to move to care homes, says Roger Battersby; while Stewart Baseley argues that it will make new housing more expensive
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OpinionThe most architectural film ever made
The death of screenwriter Alain Robbe-Grillet prompts a revisit of Last Year at Marienbad
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OpinionA demolition job on the truth
The landlord’s consultation with tenants at Robin Hood Gardens has been seriously flawed
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Off target
Urbed’s Nicholas Falk was almost arrested on a recent reconnaissance mission to the London Borough of Harrow, he revealed to an aghast audience at last week’s New New Town conference, after attempting to photograph Harrow’s awful bus station as an example of how not to design an urban environment.
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Moscow's twin?
Chatting to residents of Robin Hood Gardens this week, Boots was intrigued to learn that the estate has proved a popular location for filming.
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Glasgow kiss-off
On Wednesday night last week, viewers across the land were treated to an hour-long Beeb documentary on Richard Rogers.