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OpinionAs Ratso knew, good experience costs
Richard Serra’s triumphant retrospective is a lesson in how to win over the crowd
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OpinionShould old places win awards for good urbanism?
The Academy of Urbanism's awards celebrate great places that fire the imagination whether old or new, says its chair, John Thomson. But Richard Lavington thinks they read like a tame tourist board guide
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OpinionSummer books 2007: a further selection
Ian Martin takes another trawl through some of this year’s less obvious beach reads
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OpinionCash questions
Cabe chief executive Richard Simmons was unable to attend the Academy of Urbanism meeting this week on account of his extremely busy and important diary, but in an email to other academicians including Richard Rogers, Roger Madelin and Terry Farrell, he shares his thoughts on how Piers Gough’s resignation ended ...
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Double fun
Boots was surprised to see that rather than take at face value Cabe’s comments on Woods Bagot’s 100 West Cromwell Road tower, Kensington & Chelsea council hired an external design consultant to conduct an independent review “in view of Cabe’s ongoing objection to the scheme’s design”.
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Private lives
Anyone wanting to check which murky secret societies RIBA Council members belong to should hotfoot it to the library where, with a bit of arm twisting, a dossier of members’ interests is available.
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Crying shame
Arriving at Portcullis House, Westminster, for the launch of the RIBA’s Manifesto for Architecture last week, Boots was startled to find a group of performers of an advanced age, wearing only white bath towels, dancing to the music of South Pacific for an audience of civil servants.
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OpinionLiverpool really needs Unesco
I have just read the leader on London’s walkie talkie tower (July 13) and follow BD’s reports on Liverpool’s regeneration.
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Let judges judge
The riba Awards seem to satisfy nobody beyond those that have actually won one, and enrage and perplex almost everybody outside riba HQ.
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OpinionCracking up
Tony McIntyre’s review of the new house remodelling on Richmond Hill (Works July 6) was less than generous and bore no comparison to the house I visited earlier this year.
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Figure it out
Russel Hayden’s mathematical skills are shaky when he writes that Truro Cathedral is 200 years old (I Wish I’d Done That July 13).
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Walking out
In my seven-and-a-half-year stint with Allies & Morrison I never witnessed the office “walking over” anybody, as Ali Mangera alleges (News July 13).
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High-rise future
In future I predict all UK high-rise buildings will include “cultavations”, that is, cultivated elevations on their south-facing sides.
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Great and good
BD is always improving but surely it won’t get any better than this (“Grand masters” July 13)?
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OpinionEH must win our confidence
The walkie talkie go-ahead gives notice that the UK will decide its own future — but we need strong, clear leadership
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OpinionIf money talks, let it be loud and clear
While the old days of distrust have diminished, real openness will only be won by frank dealings
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OpinionIs the Arts Council wrong to scrap Architecture Week?
The decision smacks of pathetic desperation, says Janet Street-Porter, but Edwin Heathcoate thinks the event is overloaded, incoherent and mostly ill-conceived
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OpinionThe Court of Aesthetic Control in session
Mark ‘Buncey’ Buncewell is charged with ravishment and despoilation of a grade II listed 18th century house
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Awards can’t be perfect for all
The fundamental problem for the RIBA Awards is how to attain consistency in assessment and quality of award in an expansive system. This is the conundrum.