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OpinionMilton Keynes: The making of a suburban dream
From a stretch of rural Buckinghamshire to a 250,000-strong city, Zoë Blackler charts the history of an extraordinary building project
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OpinionThe vision for Milton Keynes
Forty years ago, with the country facing a growing housing crisis, plans began to build a new forest city in rural Buckinghamshire. As the utopian vision for Milton Keynes took shape, the German artist Helmut Jacoby produced a series of beautiful renderings of how the new city would look.
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OpinionWho should win the Stirling Prize 2007?
Architects and BD writers give their verdicts on the six buildings on the Stirling shortlist
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OpinionToo high a price for expansion
Architecture courses are hugely popular — great! But it’s not so clever if saturation means falling standards
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OpinionHands off Noddy, man of the people
Children’s TV programmes are more clued up than architects as to the housing people want
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OpinionDoes the UK have too many schools of architecture?
New courses are eroding the value of the title ‘architect’ says Richard Weston; while David Gloster argues that the quality can be maintained
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OpinionConfined by a design-community bug
Ian Martin fears a visit to an architectural launch party may be responsible for his mental illness
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OpinionOut of tune
Your article on Chetham’s School of Music (July 20) presents a misleading picture.
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OpinionHawking puzzle
The reported comments by the spokesman for Donald Insall Associates on being nominated for RIBA East Awards for the Stephen Hawking Building in West Road Cambridge (July 20), go some way to explain its puzzling nature.
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House grouse
For as long as I can remember, the debate about housing numbers has dragged on. Seeing film of housebuilding in the 1930s, nothing much has changed. We still pile lumps of baked clay (bricks) and cover roofs in slabs of stone (slates).
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Feeling blue
As the floodwaters recede from our river plains, I am reminded of the (paraphrased) words of Joni Mitchell: Oh, they paved paradise, put up an Olympic Park. They’re charging the people £9.2 billion just to see it though, not a dollar and a half.
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OpinionPlace setting
Unlike architecture, a “good place” takes much longer to evolve and develop its form (Debate July 20).
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How to stonewall
Of all the indignities suffered by architects, Boots imagines that fending off well meaning suggestions about how to improve the design of their buildings is one of the worst.
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Clapped out
Also at the town hall, though demonstrating rather less panache, was Stephan Reinke, managing partner of Woods Bagot, unsuccessfully trying to convince the meeting that his 100 West Cromwell Road tower development should get the green light.
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Out to launch
Despite the excitement over this week’s announcement of the Elephant & Castle scheme’s winning private sector partner, Boots could not help feeling that those present had their minds on the summer hols.
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OpinionJust ruminating
This unlikely sight at the AA’s “wet hair” pavilion is actually not a herd of mutant human-cows but a group from publisher Random House which caused widespread bemusement in central London while promoting its forthcoming children’s book series, Cows In Action.
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OpinionCreative thinking
Now that architects’ archives are commanding huge sums, those with something to sell are being urged to keep everything.
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OpinionLife begins for Milton Keynes
It’s the 40th anniversary of Milton Keynes, Britain’s best loved and most derided new town. To celebrate, next week is Milton Keynes week here on bdonline
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OpinionGive Liverpool best of both
I read the latest negative diatribe from Wayne Colquhoun of the Liverpool Preservation Trust (Letters July 20).
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OpinionGrim news has a silver lining
Reports on the pressures of families, careers and homes, and the wealth gap, are making a wet summer worse. Are we losing the plot?