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OpinionAnonymous Architecture
UEL Masters student Theo Honohan explores the inconsistency in architects' desire for anonymity in his latest posting for Student Space
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OpinionAmbition is key to Olympics
The ODA needs to deliver on its design rhetoric if the Olympics are to match our confident structures of the past
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OpinionAre architecture exhibitions a waste of space?
As the Tate reveals plans to hold major architecture exhibitions every two years, Rob Wilson and Victoria Thornton disagree about whether such shows can ever live up to their promise
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Say cheese
Among the amateur paparazzi at Tom Bloxham’s party in the dead cool Bubble House last week was Cabe chief executive Richard Simmons, who spent a large part of the evening snapping pictures of the house on his mobile.
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In the family way
Congratulations to Dominic Papa of Studio 333 who becomes a member of Cabe’s design review panel – a panel which is actually bigger than Cabe was when it launched eight years ago.
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Wrath of God
As the campaign against two proposed KPF towers in Victoria gathers steam, there’s more worrying news for Land Securities.
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Name shame
Protection of title may be an ongoing issue for architects but spare a thought for engineers, who have no such protection.
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Victoria is the next battle
London’s skyline is hot property. In open defiance of local planning policy Land Securities and KPF have proposed two mega-towers at Victoria.
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Misplaced loyalty
Alison Carr’s letter on Arb (March 16) presents a defence of the indefensible. Loyalty is of course a virtue, but just how loyal the new registrar should be to her recent predecessors must be examined carefully for several reasons.
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OpinionRude gesture
I found your story “Academies pay price for ‘architectural gestures’” (March 2) highly misleading.
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Fair objections
I don’t agree with Piers Gough (Debate March 9) that the public is encouraged to object to all applications regardless of the facts. Our local amenity society has over 1,200 members and none, as far as I know, is rabidly reactionary or nauseatingly self-righteous.
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Local democracy
I completely agree with Piers Gough, nimbyism having become the strongest influence on decision making by local authority planning committees.
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OpinionMipim blog: The decadent dangers of Mipim
What's the abiding impression one had from Mipim 2007? Decadence. Something akin to the last days before the Fall of the Roman Empire. And this was not just manifested in the usual gargantuan consumption of booze. The amount of cash that was sloshing around Cannes, be it in the lavish ...
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OpinionMipim blog: Movie madness
Our hero in Cannes Sean Griffiths survives a brush with Goldfinger, a musical developer and fire on the tracks
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OpinionLawyers: blood-sucking devils...
Construction lawyers make it their business to prevaricate, obfuscate and complicate, argues Nick Johnson
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Opinion...or guardian angels?
In a retort to Nick Johnson's latest blog entry, construction lawyer Tony Blackler argues his profession's first priority is to serve the client not rake in the cash
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OpinionCan the RIBA replace Arb?
The Tory party says it would abolish Arb if elected. While abolition would be welcomed by many in the profession, what is the best way to replace Arb’s functions?