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OpinionConcrete Boots
Chip off the block The rampant marketing campaign for Urban Splash and “super-famous” architect Will Alsop’s new apartments in the New Islington development in east Manchester continues apace. The apartments, called Chips because they look like, er, chips, are now for sale. The marketing campaign has attracted praise from none ...
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Ian Martin
Asked what Le Corbusier is famous for, people seem to think it’s either stylish cookware or a saucy nightclub
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Worthy of a medal only if the face fits
Julian Wykham’s suggestion that the RIBA Gold Medal committee “should be looking at Britain” for a worthy candidate (News June 10) is at the very least breath-takingly ignorant and implies that Joseph Rykwert, once a professor at Cambridge and Bath Universities, AA tutor and graduate, is less than deserving of ...
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Language barrier
Your caption on French architect Jean Nouvel’s design for One New Change (News June 10) quotes him as saying “it will set up a dialogue with St Paul’s Cathedral and the neighbouring buildings”.
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Acting on orders
In response to George Oldham (Letters June 10), unless an act is ambiguous what was said in a Parliamentary debate is irrelevant.
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Doing our duty
In response to your story, “Winchester planners ‘failing in duty of care’” (News June 3), the council has a high reputation for the quality of its service.
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Clear case for the crit
Putting aside the rather unsubstantiated view that the crit is a clear cause for the drop-out of women from architectural education (Campaign June 10), I get the impression that one of the main reasons for a school to have to limit the traditional crit is the problem of reviewing an ...
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Peer pressure
The crit should be heralded as a central and vital part of the development of architectural ideas. If your work does not stand scrutiny by your peers, go and do something else.
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A vital trauma
The tutors I feared the most during crits at Dundee University were all female, and what’s more, the female students in my year were more than capable of giving it right back to them.
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OpinionUncelebrated birthday boy
Norman Foster must have known that the Brits are rubbish at remembering birthdays. When his 70th came around earlier this month, he jetted out of the country to celebrate with his family in some warmer clime
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Old school ties
If asked to picture a school, the chances are most people will think of a Victorian building: in urban and rural locations they so often have a place right at the heart of a community
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Ian Martin
How can I introduce ‘comfort and humour’ into my boutique hotel? Two layers of carpet and a clown on reception
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OpinionFacing up to the Spanish Armad
I relished BD’s extensive coverage of David Chipperfield’s “Villaverde” (News and Works June 3).
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Insider knowledge
It seems symptomatic of our times that your coverage of the Chipperfield housing on the edge of Madrid features five large colour photographs of the exterior but none of the habitable interior — with only one plan so small as to be virtually illegible.
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A good discipline
Charlie Gates refers to critics who are likely to be disappointed with the election of Brett Steele as chairman of the AA, as he may be too academic for the exigencies of practice (News May 27).
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Sting in de-tail
To an architect “God is in the detail” when all the components intersect in exactly the right way (Letters June 3).
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Shifting intentions
I trust that Frank Duffy and Owen Luder are able publicly to refute Malcolm Nickolls’ extraordinary assertion that at the time of the drafting of the act they, as successive RIBA presidents, conspired to give Arb the very powers that they were telling their own members the new act would ...
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Topsy-turvy logic
Make should be commended for its aim to become a carbon-neutral office (News May 6), but I was surprised to read that it is proposing such an inefficient form for its proposed tower in Abu Dhabi (News May 20).