More Comment – Page 274
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Easy target
It is wonderful to see luminaries of the architectural world taking such a principled stand (News 25 May).
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Weakest link
Architect Hugh Parker gave an embarrassing performance on Saturday night’s Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, leaving with only £8,000.
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The wet set
Torrential rain and floods didn’t stop architects in the North-west turning out on Monday for RIBA’s Manchester lectures, put together by Roger Stephenson.
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OpinionBreaking cover
It is a relief to see that Tim Pitman, director of Pitman Tozer Architects, is taking the plight of untidy and unattractive urban spaces with appropriate seriousness.
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Town Krier
Just in case anyone plans to drop in on Danny Libeskind this summer, his French retreat is in Callas, not Claviers as stated in last week’s Boots
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OpinionFlick flop
Sydney Pollack’s documentary about Frank Gehry failed to impress Nigel Andrews, the FT’s film critic.
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Opinion"Our Singing Ringing Tree is architecture not bling"
Tonkin Liu director Anna Liu defends the decision to include her Singing Ringing Tree on the Stirling long-list
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OpinionThree horrors in Leicester
Leicester is the location for the first of your Carbuncle Cup nominations
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OpinionBlog: "Gordon Brown will be sustainable"
BD's sustainability blogger Phil Clark finds some hope for optimism at the RICS
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OpinionCrack down hard on graft
Paul Morrell has rightly raised the question of whether the construction industry can “sleep with a clear conscience” regarding corruption (Opinion June 15).
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OpinionWhen no architect at all is a better bet
When it comes to home improvements, a sense of perspective is invaluable
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OpinionPM should seize the moment
Gordon Brown’s housing ambitions rely on a decent and sustainable public realm. Bold action — now — is his best way to achieve it
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Rotten egg
Like Bill Mitchell (Opinion June 22), I and millions of others grew up with rows of local specialist shops selling fresh local seasonal produce.
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In for a pound
I have a copy of Architectural Design dated June 1951 which reviewed the Royal Festival Hall (Letters June 15 and 22).
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OpinionShould sculpture be allowed to win an RIBA Award?
It is a beautiful structure that fits the RIBA’s criteria, says Greg Penoyre. Yes, but it’s not architecture, retorts George Ferguson
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Tall storeys
It is ironic that Germaine Greer (Debate June 22) should have proposed tower blocks in Cambridge.
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OpinionNeedled by Greer
I could not help laughing at Germaine Greer’s idea about building 75-storey “transparent needles surrounded by a wild habitat”.
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Gloomy outlook
As a grumpy old architect spurred on by the avalanche of largely politically motivated paperwork that is now deemed necessary to create a building, I enjoyed June’s BD Magazine on housing.