More Comment – Page 263
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OpinionNot-so-Koolhaas
If, like Boots, you are a keen reader of the glamorous quarterly, Fantastic Man, you will have been particularly struck by the latest issue where Rem Koolhaas is profiled in one of the most hair-raisingly candid interviews with an architect ever committed to print.
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OpinionNew housing choices lacking
I endorse Margaret Hodge’s concerns that new housing is awful (News September 28).
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OpinionStyle counsel
It was disappointing to hear the presenter of this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize cite Nazi architecture when describing David Chipperfield Architects’ winning Museum of Modern Literature at Marbach am Neckar, Germany.
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Carbuncle Cup comments
Our Carbuncle Cup award drew a huge response. Here is a selection of your letters and comments
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OpinionHas the call for eco-towns been thought through?
While they depend on external infrastructure, these towns are little more than a marketing strategy, says Nick Rosen; but Bill Dunster thinks they could have wide holistic benefits
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OpinionTossing ideas about on urban morphology
Ian Martin reports from a conference ‘Be The Climate Change’, and looks at ways of surgically enhancing our metropolitan built environment.
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OpinionRubbish is good for Tutti Frutti
Matching the spirit of the Tutti Frutti competition (September 28), Chance de Silva’s submission was both playful and serious in that it intends to build the house from reused materials sourced locally.
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Off colour
Sunand Prasad (“Architecture schools too white in focus” News September 21) is correct, and your readers need look no further than your front cover rendering of Grimshaw’s Leningrad airport.
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Too buttoned up
I was interested to read your editorial comment on Sunand Prasad’s view that “ethnic minority students feel shut out”.
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Social security
What is most horrific about this new architectural trend of artificial islands is the line of thinking it advocates.
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Flushed out
In its unwavering support for Plastik Architects’ first public building (Works September 28), Gravesham Borough Council pursued an ambitious design and played a significant part in promoting strong architectural ideas, realised within tight fiscal constraints.
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OpinionIs your business really solid as a rock?
We would all be well advised to ponder the implications of Northern Rock’s recent crisis
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Noises off
The launch party for David Chipperfield’s new BBC HQ on Glasgow’s Clydeside was riotous — as anyone watching BBC1 in Scotland that night will tell you.
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OpinionWhat on Earth?
While the armies and navies of the world have never been fans of Google Earth, the US Navy has further reason to curse its revealing satellite maps, which show that its California barracks resemble a giant swastika.
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Loss leaders
Googling Stephen George & Partners, winners of BD’s prestigious Carbuncle Cup 2007, produces the following search result: “Stephen George & Partners are the leading Architects in the UK, successful in masterplanning, urban regeneration, commercial, retail, leisure...”.
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Cold turkey
Philip Johnson’s seminal Glass House in Connecticut has finally opened its doors to the public. But visitors to the 1948 scheme may be surprised by some recent additions to the grounds.
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Under the skin
It appears that visitors to Zaha Hadid’s Maggie’s Centre in Kirkcaldy have been so startled by its arresting appearance that they’ve reversed into it, causing unsightly damage.