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OpinionSuzi Towel
As minister for the media, I was cross to see my husband’s dealings with those Iranian businessmen all over the papers
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Peripheral edge
While I applaud BD’s 50/50 campaign, everything I have read so far misses one crucial point: if you employ women architects you get better-quality architecture. The reason is simple, in all things in life yin and yang produce a balanced harmony.So it is in architecture — women experience space differently, ...
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Necessary quality
I was very interested to read Anthony Thistledton’s negative comments on quality assurance that appeared in the article on Ojeu questionnaires (News analysis November 18).
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Hoary? True story
Far from being a “hoary myth” that the Nazis closed the Bauhaus (Letters November 18), in fact they closed it twice: at Dessau, September 1932; and its emaciated privatised form at Berlin, April 1933 (Frank Whitford’s book, Bauhaus, has a photo of police loading the students into trucks).
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Call the bulb police
Nick Cullen of Hoare Lea is spot on. Ban the tungsten lamp. But this would only create a lightbulb black market (a light market?).
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Thermal solution
One route to reducing pollution in some smoke-laden Chinese cities (Solutions October 21) is to exploit the geothermal energy in volcanic areas, such as the hot water that has bubbled up to the surface at Xingcheng in Liaoning Province in north-east China since the Tang dynasty.
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It’s bad, but not all housebuilders’ fault
Yet again, the volume housebuilders have been found wanting. An audit by Cabe of new housing developments in the north of England paints a bleak picture of poor design quality across the region.
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Rules are written for the big boys
Anyone who regularly bids for work will be familiar with the jargon of the Ojeu – the Official Journal of the European Union, where requests for architectural services can be found alongside calls for suppliers of large-capacity incontinence kits.
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OpinionConcrete Boots
Wheel of fortuneAs British Airways sells its stake in the London Eye to the Tussauds Group for £95 million this week, Tussauds has made it clear to Marks Barfield Architects that it would buy its share on “the same terms as BA”. That presents quite a dilemma. What do you ...
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OpinionLord Shaftesbury of Beaubourg
Why can’t those tie-wearing Tories see that Europe’s ketchup-free society is the way forward?
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Gustafson’s record
So Kathryn Gustafson has been shortlisted by the London Development Agency to manage the landscaping for the 2012 Olympic Games in London.
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Regulatory reform
RIBA’s consultation process on our proposal to invite the government to clarify the scope of Arb’s responsibilities is well under way.
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Token appreciation
David Adjaye. Now there’s a name to conjure with. With more column inches in the past few weeks than Nelson, his spin doctors have had the architectural press in a tizzy. It’s a good job the critics haven’t swallowed the spin.I enjoyed Ellis Woodman’s critique of Adjaye’s Ideas Store (Works), ...
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Light sensitive
As I plough through the latest draft of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister’s revisions to the dwellings section of Part L of the Building Regulations (ADL1A), I can’t help but feel that some changes implied by the new provisions are more effort than they are worth. They could, ...
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BBC has duty to provide great buildings
Imagine the list of architects invited to tender for work across the BBC’s property portfolio as a line-up for an evening’s TV viewing and you would be off to hire a DVD in a flash.