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Supply claim
Peter Phillips (Letters November 9) makes a reasonable suggestion when he commends the urgent introduction of more sensible housing space standards for the open market.
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OpinionFirm plans
Paul Morrell (Opinion November 2) implies that business restructuring in the professions is a source of embarrassment for those who do it. I disagree.
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Olympic winner
Sorry, BD, but does not the new Olympic stadium (News November 9) represent something of a coup?
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Less is more
The Olympic stadium design does not deserve the brickbats; it is an elegantly economical solution to a very tricky brief.
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Fat's chance
Your front page story (News November 2) suggests that a number of practices, including Fat, may be being deliberately excluded from appointments involving Design for London.
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OpinionAll left behind
Peter Cook has made peace with Claude Parent, 40 years after the French architect was heckled by students at an Archigram conference in Folkstone.
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Past imperfect
The only person who has not run out of superlatives to praise the new St Pancras station is its chief architect Alistair Lansley, who provided some of the most gripping moments in the BBC’s fly-on-the-wall documentary which began this week.
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Home truths
Launching his vision for Croydon on Tuesday evening, Will Alsop was keen to stress his personal links with the London borough.
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Smoked out
Alarm bells were ringing in BD Towers on Monday when it was discovered that plumes of black smoke darkening the City skies were coming from the Olympic Park.
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Panel games
What has become of the RIBA’s radical plans for a design review panel to advise the president on major buildings?
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OpinionOlympics — let me hear you say ‘Yay’!
Ian Martin’s away, so Olympics Minister Suzi Towel guests, sharing her thoughts about the all-important London Games mascot — possibly a newt
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OpinionWhose fault is it Gummer?
The BRE are cynical manipulators of the Code for Sustainable Homes, but Gummer made them that way says Ian Abley
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OpinionStadium disappoints all round
Far from being innovative and ground-breaking as claimed, the Olympic stadium is unsustainable and bad value for money
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OpinionDid I see you on the movies last night?
Why do films about architects so rarely make their celluloid representations ring true to life?
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OpinionShould citizens’ juries judge eco-town designs?
Architecture alone cannot create nice places that will thrive, says Wayne Hemingway; but Neave Brown believes successful eco-towns won't result from popular consensus.
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OpinionDfL says: ‘Come in and see us’
Let me set the record straight about Design for London’s approach to procuring architects (News November 2).
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Space realities
News that English Partnerships is to introduce minimum space standards for its housing (News November 2) is welcome; all the more so if they are also adopted by the mega-quango that will result from its expected merger with the Housing Corporation.
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Wood and trees
It would be a mistake by Justin Bere to write off the UK timber window manufacturing industry solely on the strength of an experience related to one highly specialised project (Solutions October 12).
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Oscar's podcast
Although I am unconnected with the architectural profession, I look regularly at the podcast page on your website.
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OpinionFull exposure
The image Riverbank revelation (News November 2) shows a wonderfully seductive rendering of glass building.