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OpinionWe must save Leicester
I first visited Leicester University’s Engineering Building in 1974 with some friends when we were students.
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Safe in our hands
Shepheard Epstein Hunter is preparing Leicester University’s development framework plan due to be published this year, a masterplan that will allow it to grow significantly. We have spent many hours in conversation with people at all levels of the university, and with many external stakeholders.
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Bad counsel
I am appalled at the thought that planning appeals for smaller applications could be given to local councillors to decide (News January 18).
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Tate grates
May I add my support to Ivor Hall (Letters January 11) since I agree with all he says about this illogical and pretentious design for the Tate Modern extension.
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OpinionDrawn a blank
I leave it for others to judge how extraordinarily Benson & Forsyth’s The Pod in Nottingham has been “shaped in response to the world around it” (Works, January 18).
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Correction
Our news item last week on Headingly pavilion referred to the involvement of SMC Gower Archtects.
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Ken and the AA
It’s not been a good week for Ken Livingstone, with probes into the LDA funding of projects, and Channel 4’s The Court of Ken on Monday.
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Home and away
First on the list of architecture’s luvvies who signed a letter to the Guardian lamenting cuts to the British Council, funder of the biennale’s British pavilion, was ex-Design Museum boss Alice Rawsthorn, now on the board of the Arts Council — which has almost entirely dropped its architecture programme, and ...
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Bonus claims
The battle for Foster & Partners’ proposed “penny whistle” tower in the London suburb of Ealing moved to the local paper, the Ealing & Acton Gazette, last week, with a claim on its front page that the 40-storey skyscraper will cast a “TV broadcast shadow across a huge swathe of ...
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OpinionTransfer window
It’s well known that Liverpool football club’s US owners have doubts about manager Rafael Benítez, but now they seem to be having second thoughts about the flagship new stadium by HKS too.
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OpinionDon’t just think big, think mega
This week Jonathan Glancey thinks bigger than big — mega, even
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OpinionSaved by the power of love
As Leicester’s Engineering Department is considered for demolition, is passion the only thing that can save the 20th century’s finest buildings?
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Role models
Architecture centres’ meteoric rise continues with a surprise appearance in the new BBC drama Mistresses.
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OpinionWhy not try some blue sky thinking?
Sick of all those meaningless clichés? Let’s ban them until they are used properly again
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OpinionWill you be bidding to design a nuclear power station?
Nuclear energy is back on the agenda, and someone’s got to design the power stations. Martin Pease says he would step up to the challenge, while George Ferguson we owe it to our kids to play no part in it
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OpinionPlanning appeal must be saved
I was shocked at an item in the recent RIBA newsletter emailed to members.
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Get out of London
Outside a handful of cities like London (Leader January 11) is a world where architect-designed buildings are in the minority, where local planning committees feel they have been experimented on by the architectural and planning professions, and where the agencies and public bodies responsible for shaping our environment see design ...
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Regional accent
We are concerned at the suggestion that excellence is confined to the London centres.