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Falling numbers
Architects refurbishing Lasdun’s famous ziggurats at the University of East Anglia have an interesting design challenge: how to stop drunken students falling off the roof balconies.
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Unkindest cut
It’s taken years for the RIBA to convince Channel 4 that the Stirling Prize should go out on live broadcast.
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Man of the people
The prime-time television coverage of the Stirling Prize last week was very welcome.
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... to Pseuds corner
Zaha’s press releases are always a joy to behold, but a nightmare to decipher.
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What a crap idea
German architect Friedrich Lentze has invented a new type of cement that uses an unusual material: dog muck.
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Corb’s utopia can’t help Park Hill
I was shocked, if not somewhat amused, to see the image of the Urban Splash Park Hill Estate in Sheffield.
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Frank-ly baffling
Yet again, BD reports on a major scheme and concentrates on the fame of the architect, appearance and the developer’s views rather than the real issues such as economics, social division and the urban environment.
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Ensuring a disaster
All the rot talked about professional indemnity insurance is ridiculous. My PII costs less than my car insurance (1983 Fiat X1-9 in case you’re wondering). I wouldn’t dream of driving without insurance. Some idiot might crash into me. Ditto my architectural practice.
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Snipers harm us all
I despair when I read an article such as that in BD (News September 30), in which you report on the Association of Consultation Architects’ criticism of the Architects Registration Board.Having spoken to a large number of architects I am encouraged in that I am certainly not alone in my ...
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Turn off the style
It is very disturbing to hear that planners in the Lake District are taking a stylistic stance in promoting “bold modern design”, by which they mean “something that is recognisably of today” — the tired old mantra of modernism.
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Lost in translation
The conclusion to Rab Bennetts’ Soapbox column on 30 September was edited to reinforce his plea for more considered modern architecture from UK architects working abroad.
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Sorry London, but the Brits are coming
In one respect, there’s something deliciously contrary about the British Council’s decision to ignore London’s architecture at its exhibition for next year’s Venice Biennale.
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The mistake of the mega-practice
I have developed a form of Tourette’s syndrome whereby the misuse of the words “innovation” and “creativity” results in convulsions and machine-gun obscenities. Life has got harder (and the office noisier) recently.
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Toyo Taverso
Ian Martin is away. This week’s diarist is the influential designer and polemicist Toyo Taverso, winner of the 2005 RIPBA Real Gold Medal for Top-Quality Architecture.
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Task force rifts reflect the real world
What should we make of the claims of internal divisions within the Urban Task Force as it prepares to issue its progress report on Prescott and Miliband’s communities plan?
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Speak up now and save the young ones
There has always been a problem with the history of the immediate past, particularly with architecture.