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Loose lips
Few architects will risk a fallout with Design for London, as BD reports this week, but Will Alsop — who designed Palestra, DfL’s award-winning Southwark HQ— is one big name co-operating with the London Assembly’s inquiry into the body.
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Maggie may...
Does Boots hear more wedding bells now that OMA partner Ole Scheeren and Chinese actress and martial arts bunny Maggie Cheung have been declared an item?
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Oscar’s winner
RIBA conference star, the nearly 100-year-old Oscar Niemeyer (below), has decided it’s time to reveal details of his hugely successful career.
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OpinionSame place, different epic space-time...
This week Ian Martin’s multiverse channel hopper is stuck at 66 Portland Place
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Sketch: Pulling punches at the RIBA conference
Heidi Ancell watched the brickbats fly at this year's event themed around collaboration
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The Dutch are coming
With the Dutch repeatedly winning masterplanning work in the UK, we take a peak at their CVs
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OpinionHas Prague really moved on?
The real issue in all the furore surrounding Kaplicky’s library is Prague’s ability to adapt to its new persona
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OpinionContinental drift isn’t working for me
Beware: it’s the architectural version of mad cow disease, and it’s sweeping our built environment
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OpinionDo planners have a role in solving the obesity crisis?
Yes, they have always had a role in public health, argues Rynd Smith, while Sue Baic says we shouldn’t be distracted from the issue of diet
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OpinionFurther adventures across the multiverse
Ian Martin continues his journey through parallel realities
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OpinionCause for Scottish pride
Saul Metzstein’s comment (October 12) and his passing swipe at Historic Scotland and the Heritage Lottery Fund are misplaced, unfair and rather puzzling. We are not used to being criticised for being too flexible.
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OpinionKisho: bad PR
I was disappointed by the dismissive tone of your leader on Kisho Kurokawa (October 19) which demeaningly described him as brilliant at self publicity.
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Defining moment
Is it my imagination or is the word “architect” being increasingly used as a synonym for “originator”?
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Incredible hulk
It’s still there! Battersea Power Station (News October 5) is the commuter eyesore to end all eyesores — derelict for years.
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Home truths
Your story about a prefab holiday home which powers itself (News October 12) caught my eye.
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Figured out
I may be biased, but your story on Channel 4’s birthday sculpture (Solutions October 19) left me wondering why a structure engineered from composite materials wasn’t used
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OpinionImage conscious
A propos Boots (October 5), Britain has a swastika of its own, a bit less dramatic but unmistakable nevertheless.
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Moving image
Jan Kaplicky may have faced serious hurdles trying to see his Czech national library built, but at least he has a shoulder to cry on when times get tough, Boots is glad to hear.
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OpinionAll mapped out
Among the ideas presented to the Green Dragons Den at the RIBA Small Practice conference last week was one by architect Amenity Space which proposed making building blocks of old Ordnance Survey maps.
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Boys, boys
Design for London’s corporate message “welcomes the active participation of a wide range of organisations and individuals working... to make London a better place” so it seems odd — even sexist — to find it sponsoring a conference with a male-only line-up.