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OpinionIan Martin
By placing publicly commissioned lumps of art at nodal points on the city's energy lines you can unblock the ‘urban chi'
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When bigger is the opposite of better
Is gigantism a virtue? Apparently, yes. Fewer and bigger organisations has been one of the hallmarks of New Labour and, despite allowing the Home Office to swell like a beached whale, it still believes that big is beautiful.
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A real opportunity for better schools
For those working in the design and construction of new schools, the challenges and opportunities of PFI, Building Schools for the Future and other capital funding programmes have created hope and frustration in almost equal measure. Over the last 18 months, School Works and other partners have been canvassing architects, ...
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OpinionHow can Arb justify its actions?
Your coverage (News, Editorial, Soapbox, Focus May 19) of overseas architects working in the UK was exhilarating, reflecting that, as your editorial puts it, the acknowledgement that being an architect in Britain is "more liberating, more inquiring and more creative than anywhere else in the world". But you also draw ...
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Not so free state
I have just returned from a teaching engagement at the University of the Free State in South Africa. Along with other schools of architecture there, it enjoys RIBA validation which enables part II students to be overseas members of the RIBA and, in theory, eligible to take part III and ...
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Past the post
Seeing your headline "Arb reformers fall at first hurdle" (News May 19), I wondered whether James Rose and I were at the same race meeting. I saw five reformist runners enter the field and leave at the end having made the most constructive contributions to debate, along with two appointed ...
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Political intrigue
In your article on the Venice Architecture Biennale (News Analysis May 12), you quote Fred Manson's response that "if architects want to be political they should join political parties". Is this a misquote? I can't believe that so enlightened a figure would make this point.
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Corb in context
I fully support the initiative (News May 5) to bring a Le Corbusier exhibition to Liverpool 2008, but find the notion of burying his work in Lutyens' crypt alongside former Catholic bishops somewhat of a challenge.
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Free for all
John Gummer's proposal to scrap building regulations (News May 19) may help Richard Rogers to innovate but it won't help me.
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Green campaign
"Winning green hearts" (Solutions May 19) implied greater sustainability could be delivered by either regulation or PR. I believe the battle is best served by simultaneously tackling both fronts.
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Planning ahead
Writing on the admirable housing masterplanned by Feilden Clegg Bradley (Works May 5), Ellis Woodman put the achievement in context. Cambridge has a proactive planning department, until recently headed by an architect.
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Offensive image
I am quite certain Jan Maciag's comment (Letters May 19) will cause wide and deep offence.
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Good job too
Brighton University did not "score nil" for students' job prospects in the Education Guardian's league tables for architecture.
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Correction
Northern Edge did not receive a letter from English Partnerships clarifying the reason for its rejection from the 60K house competition, as reported (News May 12).
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OpinionIan Martin
The real secret in the Corb Papers is known only by a shadowy and ruthless cabal of modernists, possibly with a Latin name
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Foreign worker influx raises questions
There is a new army of foreign workers in Britain - and they're not Polish plumbers. They are architects who are finding that life here, particularly in London, has more to offer than it does back home. The numbers are impossible to gauge so BD thought it would do its ...
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OpinionOverseas students show superior skills
Arriving in Karachi is an unusual experience. A significant number of the meeters and greeters are carrying rifles, the temperature is 34°C and on the way into town the armed guards and I are overtaken by a moped carrying a family of four; the woman rides side saddle with a ...
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OpinionStop lawyer's job creation scheme
I am delighted that both the RIBA and BD have taken up the cudgels on what is a transparent lawyer job creation scheme - the increasingly pernicious influence on clients by lawyers, who waste everyone's time and money on bespoke forms of agreement and special warranties (News May 12).