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Opinion
Bad sports
Strict IOC rules on the use of the word “Olympic” mean that Lend Lease, which is charged with building all the games’ accommodation, has had to rename it the Athletes’ Village.
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OpinionDebate: Should Milton Keynes go high density?
Rounding off our Milton Keynes special, Mike Macrae, a member of the original masterplanning team says new growth is true to the plan. But Theo Chalmers from residents group Urban Eden says development is ruining the city
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OpinionCoffee Hall, Springfield and Neath Hill
As part of our week-long special celebrating Milton Keynes at 40, Zoë Blackler and photographer Ed Tyler take a tour of the city. Here they visit schemes by Richard MacCormac and Wayland Tunley
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OpinionClients are not the problem
As long as our planning system rejects schemes like Bath’s Holburne design, the UK’s role in the Stirling Prize will diminish
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OpinionLast night’s TV: the Ignorance Factor
Germaine Greer’s housing ‘solution’ for Cambridge just displays her ignorance. Has she no shame?
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OpinionPassionate designs are ravishing, ladies
Kevin McLouche takes us on a whistle-stop tour of the RIPBA’s Gurning Prize shortlist TV personality
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OpinionWork together to save at-risk sites
The latest edition of English Heritage’s Register of Buildings at Risk and BD’s report last week have focused attention on the vast number of listed buildings across the country requiring remedial action, and the £400 million needed to bring them into a reasonable state of repair or reuse.
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OpinionWas Bath right to reject the Holburne Museum scheme?
It would have been a dilution of Bath’s historic environment, argues Stephen Marks, while Peter Clegg calls it an exemplary piece of sculpted architecture which would have improved on what it replaced
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Protection racket
So determined was the RIBA that the Stirling shortlist should not leak out early that not only did it make those in the know sign confidentiality clauses, it apparently went as far as promising a visit from RIBA heavies.
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OpinionFamily favourites
A pat on the back to Rogers Stirk Harbour, which found itself in top place in a survey of family-friendly architecture and construction firms in the Guardian this week.
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Celebrity square
You might not put David Adjaye in the same company as singer Charlotte Church or TV presenter Lorraine Kelly, but Boots was amused to discover they were all wined and dined by former PM Tony Blair.
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Suckers at Arb
Those clever people at Arb have found that the imaginative use of confectionary is the perfect way to hush its quarrelsome board members.
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What crisis?
The London Olympic stadium might be running late but that hasn’t been enough to keep its architect HOK Sport’s designers Rod Sheard and Peter Cook in the country.
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Brits flooding in
Amid an invasion of Dutch architects working on the Thames Gateway, Boots was delighted to hear it’s not all one-way traffic.
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OpinionMilton Keynes: a model for the future?
With a fresh wave of new town building on the way, Gordon Brown could learn a lot from the success of Milton Keynes which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. Our special report features Edward Jones, Andrew Waugh, Geoff Shearcroft, Derek Walker, Zoë Blackler, the drawings of Helmut Jacoby and ...
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OpinionLearning from Milton Keynes
Invited to interview a past master for the AF's Gold Lecture series, Geoff Shearcroft chose Derek Walker, Milton Keynes's former chief architect. The success of the city, Shearcroft argues here, offers a vital lesson for today's housing architects
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OpinionRalph Erskine's Eaglestone
As part of our week-long special celebrating Milton Keynes at 40, Zoë Blackler and photographer Ed Tyler take a tour of the city. Here they visit Eaglestone by Ralph Erskine
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OpinionA matter of life and death
The Stirling Prize is failing drastically in its approach to climate change, says Robin Nicholson, Cabe commissioner and director at Edward Cullinan Architects
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OpinionCentral Milton Keynes
As part of our week-long special celebrating Milton Keynes at 40, Zoë Blackler and photographer Ed Tyler take a tour of the city. Here they visit the shopping building and tree-lined boulevards of Central Milton Keynes
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OpinionNever say Nether again
As the masterplan for Milton Keynes took shape, idealistic young architects seized the chance to experiment with new housing on an unprecedented scale. Edward Jones looks back at life in the development corporation's windowless yellow HQ and how optimism turned to disappointment at Netherfield.