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OpinionPremature point
Your round-up of the year (December 15) although calling it a bad year for Frank Gehry, claims he got planning permission for his King Alfred development in November. Not true.
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On the waterfront
Your report (News December 15) implies that responsibility for the budget increase on the arena and conference centre scheme at Kings Waterfront, Liverpool, belongs to Wilkinson Eyre Architects. This is not the case.
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OpinionIan Martin
No one waits more than six months for an architectural icon, but in 1997 around 300,000 did at any one time.
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Green issues dominate this year and next
How will architects remember 2006? As the year when a member of the BNP stood for election as RIBA president, or when Sunand Prasad became the first non-white architect to succeed?
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OpinionObituaries
His approach to transport planning merged the reality of heavy traffic with the dream world of psychogeography
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OpinionGames need design, delivery and legacy
Commentators have written recently that it has been “a good couple of weeks” for design and the Olympics. Amid some of the negative headlines on this same issue this is good to hear, but I do fear that the debate over the design approach for Olympic venues is in danger ...
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OpinionDefining the profession
What is an architecture practice? For a publication such as this, the question verges on the absurd — but it is not simple to answer.
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Dump the dismal Collieston entries
The Collieston competition (BD December 8) should have been inspirational.
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Responsibility gap
Surely the saddest aspect of BD’s story of “rogue architect” Peter White and his let-down clients Jean and Christopher Shaw (News analysis November 24), was the absolute failure of Arb and the RIAS to properly police a registered architect who was also a convicted fraudster.
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Grasp the nettle
BD comes to my office each week and is well enjoyed by my American colleagues.
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OpinionBeyond a joke
What forces created the “prison camp-esque” Tranmere scheme in Merseyside? (Works December 1).
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Gazprom competition was no contest
Leaving aside Russia’s state gangster culture, where corruption, violence and vice flourish, its courting of iconic architecture to usher in an era of economic bling raises awkward questions for those involved in their creation.
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Ministers must take a lead on quality too
This week’s Barker Review of Planning could mean big changes in the way architects and planners deal with development.
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OpinionIan Martin
Squeeze Commonwealth Institute into corner of bus station site, sell rest to Wetherspoons
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OpinionSpace is the key to better housing
There were two interesting articles around the themes of design in last week’s BD. The one proclaimed that “Design is at the heart of the Olympics” the other that “Design is compromised when Dutch housing experience is applied to the UK.”
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Avoiding the blobs
Jack Pringle, in the Guardian on December 1, revealed quite rightly his reservations about behemoth development contractors and their subordinated design staff bringing a greyness to an opportunity for infrastructure accompanying London’s Olympic Games. He cited the good old tested system of RIBA competition entries... but I’m not so sure ...
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Lost hospital
In Spotcheck North-west (News November 24) you describe an extension to Hope Street Hospital in Liverpool.
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Fond memories
I read with sadness of the death last month of Sam Stephenson, the celebrated Dublin architect.
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A good news week for Olympic design
Just when things were looking chronically bleak for those charged with delivering the London Olympics, this week has good news not just for architects, but for anyone who was worried the games would be a missed opportunity for the UK’s talented pool of designers.