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Opinion
The wrong hat
From Ken Powell’s many achievements it was misleading to select his former directorship of the Twentieth Century Society by quoting his support for Foster’s scheme in your report on the public inquiry over the School and Inner Court in Chelsea (News June 15).
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OpinionCommemorating civilisation’s last gasp
Ian Martin makes the most of the last few days before the smoking ban
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It’s grim up north
On the same day that I read Paul Gregory’s letter querying the fact that 28 of the 31 positions on Cabe’s schools panel are from the South-east (June 15), voting papers for the RIBA council election arrived. Of nine names, six of the candidates’ practice addresses are in London, with ...
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OpinionWhat a bummer
A double disappointment for those who turned out to hear Monday’s debate at the Tate’s Turbine Hall on Can London Be Big and Beautiful?
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OpinionWorth repeating
The world of built environment professionals isn’t short of acronyms and abbreviations, but here is one which deserves a special mention.
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OpinionKeep a cool head
The Giant’s Causeway visitors’ centre, won by Heneghan Peng in competition in 2005, is three years from completion still, but one interested party may be none too happy with the winner.
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OpinionFrench settlers
There was heated debate at the RIBA Awards over whether the Singing Ringing Tree is architecture.
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OpinionWhat our new PM should do for architecture
As Gordon Brown moves into number ten you've been telling us what the new prime minister should do for architecture and the built environment.
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OpinionWhat should Brown do for architecture?
Tell us what you think the incoming prime minister could do for the built environment for the chance to win a book token
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OpinionSmoking out a good design
Smoking shelters are here to stay — but they don’t have to look cheap and ugly.
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OpinionJerusalem: help us grasp issues
I read Moshe Safdie’s comments (News June 8) with great interest. In recent weeks I have come to sympathise with, as he puts it, “the complexity of the issues” in the Middle East, and so with the help of Simon Kaufman from our office I decided to inform myself better ...
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Opinion
Madness of PFI
PFI is all about politics: it was devised as a way of hiding the costs of building from the public expenditure borrowing requirement balance sheet. Minister Jim Knight (Debate June 15) says local authorities will continue to use PFI, but that is because the government gives them no alternative.
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Misleading data
In his defence of PFI Jim Knight comes on strong on accountancy and time arguments. These have been shown to be false in research by the University of Edinburgh into Treasury claims for the “advantages” of PFI, published in April.
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OpinionSeven-year glitch
After last Wednesday’s episode of The Apprentice, can somebody please, please, ask Ken Shuttleworth why on national TV he felt the need to compare architects’ seven gruelling years of training with the apprentices’ three-day “architectural” efforts as equally meretricious?
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OpinionSimple stand
Paul Stein (Letters June 8) perfectly illustrates why the petition against Israel’s architectural and planning practice is to be strongly welcomed.
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Vital statistics
Ivor Hall (Letters June 15) wanted to know how the cost of refurbishing the Royal Festival Hall compares with its original cost.
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Opinion
Not the best hat
From Ken Powell’s many achievements, it was misleading to select his former directorship of the Twentieth Century Society when reporting his support for Norman Foster’s scheme at the public inquiry over the School and Inner Court in Chelsea (News June 15).
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OpinionBirthday honours – the built environment
Ian Martin gives a run-down of some of the less-well publicised construction-industry gongs