More Comment – Page 264
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OpinionIt’s still not easy being young
BD launched Yaya 10 years ago to showcase the work of gifted young architects, but we also keep watch over the carbuncles
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OpinionDoes Cabe know where it’s going?
Cabe’s workload has expanded exponentially as resources pour into public projects, but it is in danger of overreaching itself
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OpinionAt last – the chance to really play God
The arrival of the architect-designed fake island marks a shift in our power over nature
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OpinionDo design review panels make any difference?
They have helped us fine-tune projects says Stephen Quinlan, while Alan Dunlop argues they are often ignored in the face of economic arguments
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OpinionBuilding your social brand — and career
It was the online phenomenon of the year, Facebook had us all poking people we barely knew, sharing our holiday snaps with millions and competing to be top zombie.
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OpinionSpecialisation is the key to survival in the internet age
The social, political, economic and intellectual environments within which architects operate are changing, and the practice of architecture must change with it.
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Back elevation
After 20 years of pounding up and down a perforated steel staircase in his gaudily stockinged feet, Richard Rogers has had enough.
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Tip for the top
The ambitions of energetic deputy chairman of Urban Splash Nick Johnson to become the next Stuart Lipton are gaining momentum.
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OpinionHodge dodge
Boots’ attempts to track down the new architecture minister Margaret Hodge are proving almost as difficult as those to find her predecessor, David Lammy, who managed to escape BD’s clutches during his entire stint at the DCMS.
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Never mind the...
It seems that Tessa Jowell is more than a little exasperated with the jargon spewing from the ODA.
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Late lament
Staff and patients at Alder Hey hospital in Liverpool will soon have an all-too-clear reminder of the green oasis that it is about to obliterate.
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OpinionOriginality rests on strong design
Ellis Woodman was, in my view, completely accurate in suggesting that Manchester’s new Civil Justice Centre “has all the makings of an icon” (September 14).
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Justice served
As the Bovis Lend Lease design manager for Manchester Civil Justice Centre from October 2002 to August 2004, I find it very disappointing that for such a spectacular building you do not give adequate credit to the primary structure and make no mention at all of the primary facade works.
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OpinionBlue-sky thinking
I am puzzled by the reported championing by the mayor of London of the troubled Shard skyscraper (News September 21).
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HIPs out of joint
Richard Brindley (Practice September 21) gives an accurate account of how the HIPs are now fractured!
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Agenda bender
I am responding to your editorial (Tories seize the green agenda, September 14).
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Hitting the roof
It was intriguing to compare the measured elegance of the roof at St Pancras (Solutions, September 7) with, on the following pages, the contrived “architecture” of the Riverside Museum in Glasgow.
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Trees are green
I am concerned by the letter from Jun Huang (September 7) on timber as a construction material being less than “green”.
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OpinionDigging up some new relics of the past
Ian Martin is kept abreast of the latest archaeological finds