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OpinionRight-on foodism is theatre of absurd
Global wholefood supermarkets are still about reinforcing shoppers’ sense of superiority
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OpinionShould Cambridge build high-rise towers for housing?
Germaine Greer, who will be putting the case in a debate to be broadcast on Sunday, advocates 75-storey blocks of flats. But Peter Studdart says there are more human ways of building high-density
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OpinionMoney for jam
Rem Koolhaas’s exhibit for the Tate Modern’s Global Cities show raised a few eyebrows at the opening on Tuesday night.
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Talk, dont talk
Boots’ favourite architecture minister David Lammy is a hard man to pin down. Despite popping up at the long-awaited launch of Channel 4’s Castleford Project this week, his office said he was unable to talk to journalists because “it was not a media event”!
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Piece of cake
Bakers at the wonderful Konditor & Cook have been struggling to find a suitable cake to mark the opening of their new café in the Gherkin, designed by Jamie Fobert.
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In the rhythm
It’s every architect’s nightmare: having laboured forever over a project, what entertainment for the launch will do it justice?
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OpinionInverse function
During this week’s debate between Jack Pringle and journalist Simon Jenkins, one wag used a killer argument to prove architects indeed have oversized egos.
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OpinionJust say no to business backhanders
Kickbacks and bribery are stealing, nothing less. So why are they not always illegal?
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OpinionIs PFI the right way for us to build schools in the future?
Jim Knight says the massive rise in capital investment could not have happened under conventional funding, while Malcolm Fraser thinks the whole system stinks
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OpinionShould sustainable housing look to Haussmann rather than Thoreau?
The German tabloid Bild, known for its unstinting support of tough enforcement of law and order, and an obsessive opposition to the country’s former red-green government, has recently made a habit of opening with alarmist headlines about climate change, imminent floods and storms, and the extinction of animal species. ...
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Stars’ turns
A star line-up turned out last Monday at Banqueting House to celebrate Richard Rogers’ Pritzker Prize win.
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Karma life
The Lerab Ling Buddhist Retreat Centre, north of Montpellier in France, is getting ready to welcome its latest recruit, Giles Oliver, a partner at Penoyre & Prasad, who is leaving the practice to spend 18 months at the centre.
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It's a flyer
Bill Dunster is being held up as a shining example of creativity by those well known visionaries, Canon, who singled out the architect as an example of someone “who is actively pushing the boundaries.”
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Quick on the draw
At last week’s Big Auction, Boots was amused to see RIBA president Jack Pringle get into a macho bidding war with Ian Simpson over Toyo Ito’s Tokyo, an original colour drawing of Ito’s recent projects in Japan.
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Bad timing
Angry shareholders at Tuesday’s SMC annual general meeting were in no mood to let the board get away with anything.
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Where’s the beef?
Guests at last week’s Sheppard Robson summer party were surprised to find themselves enjoying beer and nibbles beside some agricultural-looking art installations.
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OpinionTamworth — an architectural Life on Mars
Tamworth week is the perfect antitode to the whimsical flutterings down south
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OpinionEverything has political aspect
In his debate on architecture and politics (BD June 1) Robert Adam writes that “to promote architecture as a primary political activity is a naive and arrogant.”
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Standards bearer
Charles Jencks (Letters June 1) informs us that ownership of Palestinian land has declined by a massive 84% since 1907.