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OpinionBarking up the right tree
At last we have an architecture minister who is prepared to talk about architecture, and in her own constituency, too.
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OpinionCan architects help Sarkozy?
Sarkozy wants a built legacy, but are architects best placed to advise on what are often really political issues?
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OpinionGlory be to Gehry for dappled things
Hurrah for Frank Gehry’s IAC tower, which brings texture and variety to Manhattan’s rigid pattern
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OpinionCan supermarkets ever really be sustainable?
We are regenerating brownfield sites and cutting carbon emissions, says Asda’s Bob Simpson; it’s just greenwash, counters Bob Hayes
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OpinionGetting the lowdown on oligarchitecture
Unpleasant clients are great – they pay handsomely and on time, enthuses Ian Martin
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OpinionBSF: smart PFI is a distraction
Your piece on the Building Schools for the Future programme following the opening of the Bristol Brunel Academy (News analysis September 7) raises important issues about PFI and procurement.
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Public outcry
Is your front page story “Public feels powerless over design” (News September 14) really so shocking?
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Hard lessons
If Dan Kantorowich (Letters September 7) is right and the schools of architecture no longer teach construction, our profession is far deeper in the proverbial than most of us would think. I always thought construction detailing was integral to the design process!
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OpinionRussian revolt
I was one of those who took part in the march against the Gazprom tower design (News September 14).
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Title needs
Your correspondent (Practice September 7) asks if protection of title rather than function makes sense. The plain answer is no, despite Richard Brindley’s half-hearted attempt to defend the status quo.
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It’s cool
In your article on the reinstatement of St Pancras Station’s splendid glass roof (Solutions September 7), you quoted Alison Peterson Smith of Pascall & Watson as saying, “this amount of glazing far exceeds that allowed in new structures by modern regulations governing heat loss and energy efficiency”.
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Party poopers
The launch party for the London Design Festival at the Royal Festival Hall was perhaps a bit more champagne-fuelled than its sponsor, Moet & Chandon, might have liked.
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OpinionMeasuring up
Former Lib Dem leader Paddy Ashdown was one of the high-profile figures to take advantage of the RIBA’s Ask an Architect stand at the party’s conference this week.
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OpinionFoot in mouth
Fans of Glenn Howells may be in for a wait to see the Birmingham architect’s Stirling Prize-shortlisted Savill Building.
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In with the old
The trend for using architects in style magazines has spread, Boots is pleased to see.
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OpinionAn issue that is not black and white
There are some very sound reasons why students should spend time studying the richness, diversity and ingenuity of non-western, non-white architecture, but to encourage more people from ethnic minorities to become architects is surely not one of them. Hopefully, people study architecture because, among other things, they want to learn ...
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OpinionShow some respect: cut the clichés
Meaningless archispeak is a lazy way to avoid a proper analysis of architecture
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OpinionShould masterplans be made legally binding?
Masterplans prevent developments from being hijacked, says David Page; no they don’t and we have enough legislation in this country, retorts Ben Derbyshire