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OpinionTall story
A dream team of tall buildings from around the world has been brought together on a single island in a montage mocked up by the Financial Times for the front page of its relaunch issue this week.
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Love’s rocky road
A sparkling speech by Pat Mirrlees at Terry Farrell’s and Mei Xin’s wedding party at the Wallace Collection revealed her key role in not only bringing the happy couple together, but also in ensuring they didn’t split up.
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Cads in business
Speaking of affairs of the heart, architects are the new love rats, a current West End production suggests.
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OpinionUse, not design, counts in spaces
The assertion (News April 20) that the public wants space not style is just nonsense. I have no doubt that a commissioned survey could back up his claim, but then I have no doubt such a survey could back up a claim that most people believe the earth is flat ...
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The living city
Thank you for your thoughtful leader on public life and public space — often two very different and conflicting issues. There is much truth in the Demos/Rowntree report but there is also a real danger that we polarise this issue.
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Be specific, Arb
In the article about Arb’s “prescribed examination” (News April 13), you quote the registrar as indicating that Arb would not be in a position to outsource any of its other education roles because of the wording of the act, while “only on the prescribed exam is the wording more flexible”.
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Victoria values
Surely Land Securities’ willingness to lop 4m of one of KPF’s proposed twin towers and 24m of the other (News April 20) is little more than a classic developer’s ploy of throwing an excessive scheme into the ring and then make a big “concession” by scaling it back to something ...
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OpinionCold comfort
I thought we architects were supposed to be leading the industry forward in sustainable design. Yet Dow Jones’ refurbished house at Walberswick does not include a draught lobby.
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Let the arch lie
Network Rail does deserve a Euston Arch (Letters April 20) to mark its burial spot. The destruction of the Euston Arch was utterly deplorable and an act of mindless philistinism by British Railways.
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Beware ‘scoops’
A lot of us on this side of the architectural press have been biting our tongues at the deluge of nascent concepts by architectural “names” that increasingly adorn your pages. Last week’s front page was no exception.
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Be fair to the BBC
Some of the criticism of the BBC, Bovis Lend Lease, and the implied criticism of Sheppard Robson (Letters April 13), is not justified.
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OpinionGreat imposter
I was deeply offended by your back page reference last week to God “the Great Architect”.
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OpinionBlog: Brand names versus name brands
Christopher Lee of New York practice Mass Studio looks at the effects big European names are having in the US
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OpinionBlog: Grant Gibson in Milan
In his photo diary from the Milan Furniture Fair, Grant Gibson finds a super-size candlestick, the world's worst jazz band and a gem by Shigeru Ban
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OpinionMaking a wasteland of space
Architects and councils may love elegant piazzas, but if the public is indifferent then they need to be rethought
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OpinionFuture design: waving or drowning?
The Italians’ trademark hand waving extends to design, but where will it all end?
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OpinionRail deserves a Euston Arch
Computer-generated images are so unreliable that we can still hope that Leo A Daly’s new building for Euston Station will be a good deal less banal, or indeed downright ugly, than its perspective view suggests (News April 13).
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Get rid of the tat
Rather than worry about the re-erection of the Euston Arch, which has now taken its place in history for good or ill, we should be more concerned with the present station.
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Public interest
“Most people going to architectural events are architects” says Fred Manson of Open House (News April 13).
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Charter surprise
I confess to having been, like Tom Jestico (Debate April 13), publicly very critical of the RIBA chartered practice scheme.