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OpinionWhy I’ll be voting Smurf this year
The Smurfs are celebrating their 50th birthday and in a US election year are really coming to life
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OpinionShould we change historic buildings rules to allow for climate change?
Yes it’s the lesser of two evils, says Sarah Staniforth, historic properties director at the National Trust, but Duncan McCallum of English Heritage says the rules are flexible enough already
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OpinionEuropan: the debate goes on
I agree with David Birkbeck (Debate January 25) that volume housebuilders and the architectural profession don’t have much to do with each other, bar occasional sniping.
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Force of the law
In the 21st century, international human rights legislation has to be observed by architects and their clients — just as much as by everyone else.
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Israel is muddier
Designing buildings in the “disputed territories” in Palestine-Israel is much further along the scale of muddied water of architectural ethics than an airport in China (Leader, January 25).
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Start at home
Your sub-heading, Life and times of a communist despot, was unfair to Zaha Hadid (News January 25), but it is nice to see communists putting up such an extravagant building.
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Stop this neglect
I first visited Stirling & Gowan’s Leicester engineering building around the same time as John Tuomey (Letters January 25).
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History man
Well done to Saul Metzstein. It is a long time since anyone corrected the clichés about Le Corbusier and the modern movement (Opinion, January 18).
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Own goal
There might have been a swift resolution to Liverpool FC’s indecision over its flagship stadium (Boots January 18) had it accepted Liverpool School of Architecture’s invitation to debate the merits or demerits of the HKS design — previously decried as a dog, then hailed as a mongrel in BD’s ...
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Corrections
Our news story “Murray and Dunlop scoop Glasgow hotel” last week stated that the practice beat RMJM and Make to win the work. In fact, RMJM did not enter a bid for the scheme. Apologies.
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OpinionPointing out
Boots was interested to see the ODA’s Inclusive Access Statement, published this week, which decreed that “none of the WCs or urinals [should] face Mecca, which is deemed to be 115 degrees east of North”.
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Made for walking
Daniel Libeskind and his wife Nina have revealed more about their penchant for “ranch chic”, including the rather off-putting fact that for the past five years Danny has worn nothing on his feet except a single pair of cowboy boots.
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Network news
Boots went to help Make Architects celebrate its fourth birthday with a packed-to-the-gunnels party in its half-finished 55 Baker Street office redevelopment last week.
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OpinionWhat’s at stake as SMC’s new master takes the reins?
Ironshield will be looking for high returns as a reward for the risk it has taken on
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OpinionWhat a sauce
Boots' attention was drawn to an amazing piece of PR, sorry, journalism, about Foster's latest "zero-carbon city" in last Monday's Guardian.
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OpinionSharks lurk in ethical waters
Artistic freedom, at a profit, can be a powerful pull over principles on human rights. Where do you draw the line?
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OpinionThe art of making a quality judgment
If quality is to be judged rather than measured, the government must be ready to step beyond public opinion
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OpinionIs Europan a real opportunity for architects in the UK?
Patently no, since no Europan entries have been built in England, says David Birkbeck; while Nick Johnson is confident that the tide is turning