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Real crux is society’s view of architects
If you had your time again would you still want to become an architect? This is one of the questions being asked by the RIBA in the most comprehensive survey it has ever undertaken.
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Did boredom inspire the Tate extension?
When I saw the drawings of Herzog & de Meuron’s new project for Tate Modern, my first thought was: what happened to these guys? Did they just get bored? I have to say, I found their earlier work for Tate Modern terribly dour and po-faced. It took a real pleasure ...
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BNP aside, Phillips voices real worries
I am one of those who voted for Peter Phillips before being made aware of his political affiliations — and did so on the basis of his “manifesto”
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Rerun the ballot
Your headline on this weeks paper “19% back BNP man” is somewhat misleading and I feel unrepresentative of the real facts.
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Disheartening vote
As a newly qualified Asian architect in Scotland and an RIBA member, I was somewhat disheartened to see a BNP member accumulating such a high percentage of the vote.
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Arb, not race
When the election papers went out no-one was aware of Peter Phillips’ links with the BNP. The majority of votes are cast within a week of receipt of papers.
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Turnout concern
Instead of worrying about who voted for who in its presidential elections, should the RIBA not be concerned or draw its own conclusions as to why 73% of the membership considered it not worthwhile to vote at all.
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Not so liberal
I was more than disappointed to learn that Peter Phillips polled as high as 19% in the recent presidential election. I have always liked to think that the architectural profession is very largely made up of people from the left-of-centre/liberal-thinking fraternity. I thought that was one of the things that ...
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Politics are private
What exactly does Chris Nasah, chairman of the Society of Black Architects, think he will achieve by his attitude towards those who have a different opinion to himself?
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Flying in the face
I can’t believe there’s any doubt about a face in the Herzog & de Meuron Tate Modern extension (Concrete Boots July 28).
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Shaky Foundation
Apart from radically altering: the design (the radical angled entrance block struck off); the materials (from concrete to steel); the brief (to make it work, says trustee); the timescale (adding two more years); and the cost (doubling the budget), the Architecture Foundation’s “new and revised” competition-winning scheme (News July 28)... ...
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So why did it win?
One profoundly agrees with Frank Duffy’s reported comments on the Architecture Foundation redesign that quotes “the main thing is that it works and is a good place to be”.
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Silly season
It may be the hot weather or the illustrations may be misleading but I think the design for the extension to the Tate Modern (News July 28) is just silly and anyway too big.
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Never seen before
When the shortlist was announced for the new Architecture Foundation HQ, its director, Rowan Moore, said, “Whoever wins, London will have a building of a kind that it hasn’t seen before”.
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OpinionPlace your bets...
...for your guess as to which UK location will host the first supercasino — and who will design it. Ellen Bennett chronicles the high-stakes story
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Schools must speak to the wider world
Students know that when they leave university and begin work in practice they must also leave their architectural dreams behind. But is it right to have these dreams in the first place?
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Reconstructing the art of conversation
My interest in interviews was triggered by two conversations that I read as a student. One was between Pierre Cabanne and Marcel Duchamp; the other between David Sylvester and Francis Bacon. These books brought me to art, they were like oxygen. I was fascinated by the idea of how an ...
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