More Comment – Page 257
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Opinion
Invisible touch
Cabe is still waiting to be bathed in the harsh spotlight of government scrutiny.
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OpinionFinally, the correct version of Tamworth
In his final hop round the multiverses, Ian Martin briefly visits a Midlands utopia
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OpinionGateway reaches crisis point
Cash, Farrell and positive noises are great, but they cannot hide the fact that the Thames Gateway is in meltdown
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OpinionThis is the plan: every man for himself
When you get up close to it, the planning process is revealed as a chaotic, counter-productive sham
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OpinionIs the Thames Gateway project a busted flush?
Architect Eelco Hooftman says yes, and that the project should be about restructuring a landscape in a dynamic floodplain. But Space Craft’s Cody Gaynor disagrees
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OpinionIconic Pimlico must be saved
As a former governor of Pimlico School, I was interested to read about its impending demolition (News November 23).
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Battle goes on
The Pimlico battle continues, especially as demolition and the production of materials for newbuild both add to global warming.
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Number puzzle
When I resigned in May 2007 as English Heritage’s chief conseration architect and head of profession, I was able to identify 28 architects working for EH in various capacities of a total of 1,937 full-time equivalent employees (EH annual report 2006/07).
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Still on track
Piers Gough has raised a long-standing question about the roles of English Heritage and Cabe (News November 16).
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Poor illumination
Bill Mitchell quotes Leon Botstein on leaks at MIT’s Stata Center (Opinion November 16) as saying: “hiring Gehry to design a building was no more risky than hiring Albert Einstein to teach physics”.
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OpinionScots missed
Just to put the record right, Deyan Sudjic, Ricky Burdett and myself, the only architects on the jury for the BBC Scotland HQ (BD Magazine, Offices, November), soon came to the conclusion that the proposal by David Chipperfield was the best.
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OpinionStreet cred
I am pleased I am not the only person in Hackney who objects to the seriously misnamed Streetscene Improvements being spread like a layer of hazardous waste all over the borough.
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Fear of flying
A non-scientific survey of the world’s worst airports by The Independent paper’s foreign correspondents features none other than Richard Rogers’ Madrid Barajas building — “a huge shopping mall where you feel you could get lost, possibly for years”.
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Facing the music
Daniel Libeskind’s latest non-architectural creation — a 5.2m-long grand piano — took as long to make as some of his buildings.
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OpinionEarnest & young
Thanks to the unusually named blog Bollocks To Architecture —www.b2architecture.blogspot.com — for drawing our attention to fancy dress for toddlers from The Toy Factory.
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OpinionAre you revered as a global visionary genius?
Ian Martin discovers how an obscure architect in our reality might be a superstar in a parallel world
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OpinionParty fits the bill
Bill Clinton, in London this week to drum up support for his wife Hillary’s nomination as the Democrats’ presidential candidate, has lost none of his charm according to Ruthie Rogers, who was persuaded to lay on a party for him at the Rogers’ gorgeous Royal Avenue home even though her ...
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OpinionRefurb deserves top design
Pimlico School’s demolition may be unstoppable, but there are serious questions over the quality of its replacement