More Comment – Page 267
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Dinner dilemma
Congratulations to Amanda Levete and Ben Evans, who are to tie the knot next month.
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OpinionCalled to the bar
The presidential handover party on Tuesday was packed with former presidents including Frank Duffy, David Rock, Paul Hyett and George Ferguson, who were all there to witness the handing over of the red ribbon to Sunand Prasad.
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The hole truth
Boots was excited to receive news of a new public art project in Manchester this week based on the concept of the peephole.
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OpinionPlaque priced out
Mystery admirers of the late Cedric Price recently put up this official-looking plaque on the hoarding outside his old office in Alfred Place, just opposite London’s Building Centre.
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OpinionNobody knows anything
Zero-champion Phil Clark is alarmed by how unclear we all are about carbon emissions and how to reduce them
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OpinionYour comments
Saving Farnsworth, design quality Down Under and the future for tall timber buildings: the latest comments posted on bdonline
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OpinionMr president, your in-tray...
There’s no shortage of campaigns on which RIBA’s Sunand Prasad could make his mark
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OpinionSample the planning menu
While the RIBA may manage to pull off a design review panel and make it work (News August 24), I would venture to predict that it will not have a long life.
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OpinionAt last we can brand the Dome a hit
A mobile phone company’s homage to itself has proved the troubled tent’s unlikely saviour
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OpinionEgregious flowerings of steel and glass
Ian Martin harvests a bumper crop of ridiculous buildings with intriguing titles
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OpinionDublin identity
Irish architecture fans are railing against a 48m-high figure (pictured) by artist Antony Gormley, proposed for a riverside site in the Dublin docks.
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Rug addicts
Lucky staff at Studio Bednarski might be treated to a luxuriously furnished office after the practice was shortlisted in a competition to design a bridge in Iran.
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Second chance
Geeks in the profession are eagerly awaiting the results of the first architectural competition to be held in virtual world Second Life.
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OpinionReason to mock
Is it Boots’ imagination or are British firms’ designs for schemes overseas getting more and more surreal?
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Ignorance is bliss
Former architecture minister David Lammy may have left the profession unimpressed by his grasp of the subject but that hasn’t stopped his meteoric political rise, according to newspaper New Nation.
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Dish the dirt
By God it’s about time the RIBA started vetting its members’ work. I’ve been waiting for this to happen for years, because for years architects, planners and clients have got away with designing, consenting and developing crap buildings.
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Disastrous recipe
There must be many architects who see the dangers of the president of the RIBA commenting on projects designed by the institute’s members, with or without the advice of an “expert” panel.