More Comment – Page 302
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Opinion
Tackling ‘evil’
Your article “Arb failed to prevent ‘evil architect’ errors” last week invites clarification, in wider and specific context.
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OpinionRings a bell
Reading Ellis Woodman’s account of Foster’s Kazakhstan Palace of Peace & Accord last week I was reminded of a passage in George Orwell’s 1984: “The ministry of truth — minitrue in Newspeak — was startlingly different from any other object in sight. It was a enormous pyramidal structure of glittering ...
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Opinion
Pyramid selling
Foster’s accepted the commission to design the Palace of Peace & Accord because it felt the “pyramid form enjoyed a convincing relationship to the programme”.
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Sheffield united
The focus of the Venice Biennale was cities and the British Council’s commitment to exploring regional issues was responded to innovatively and passionately by Sheffield with its Echo City exhibition.
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Timber fire fallout
In her article “Timber row turns incendiary” (BD September 8), Ellen Bennett refers to a 1983 World in Action documentary “that highlighted the dangers of timber frames”.
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Design panels need some new faces
Each week, it seems, another commission or panel is set up to advise on the fraught issue of design.
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OpinionIan Martin
I point out that the facade of the Jogging Aunt pub has been painstakingly copied from the John O’Gaunt
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AUU did not give East an easy ride
Your article “Design jobs for the boys?” (News Analysis September 15) misrepresents and miscontextualises my comments.
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Not on the list
We recently had the excitement of being commissioned by a long-standing client for a major Thames-side site in central London.
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Opinion
DSDHA not bitter
It seems to me that your enthusiastic salvo across the bows of the GLA’s Architecture & Urbanism Unit has gone wide of the mark.
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OpinionOut of the frame
I was unmoved by the wake of vested sensationalism following the Colindale fire, where an innocent bystander (a timber frame building awaiting its fire protection) rapidly became the industry’s Joan of Arc with a typically reductive red herring polemic: masonry versus timber frame.
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Creating ghettos
What was the Westminster Housing Commission thinking, or rather, not thinking of? (News September 15). Westminster has a small resident population and relies on other boroughs for its manpower.
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Bird solution
Further to your article on “Watch the Birdie” (News August 11), we can offer a few tried and tested methods of avoiding birds perching on buildings and the inevitable mess.
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Opinion
Why foot Arb bill?
The debate revolves around the agreement by the board to at last systematically address one of its core functions (and the one which made the retention of registration attractive to the profession in 1997). That is protection of title. But why should protection of title be established at the cost ...
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