More Comment – Page 337
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Planning push
In response to “A web of illiteracy and officialdom” (News May 6), Hackney planning department has made great strides to improve service delivery.
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School daze
When I hear mention of the Smithsons’ Hunstanton School (Letters, May 6), I do not think of ground-breaking architecture.
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Im only here for a peer
The pashmina-enfolded lovely ahead of me drifts into Lord Hesketh’s vegetable patch and stops dead in her tracks
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OpinionSchool drive
The battle for more women in architecture begins in schools such as Putney High School for Girls.
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Wait for proof before judgment
We can only endorse George Ferguson’s proposal (News, May 6) to extend the period after completion that buildings can be entered for the Stirling Prize.
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Scottish traditions
I was encouraged by Mary Wrenn’s comment (Talkbox, May 6) regarding the need to make the traditions of Scottish architecture appeal to younger members of the profession.
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Ugly future
Sarah Wigglesworth’s Classroom of the Future may be packed full of interesting ideas, but it is unremittingly ugly, and misses a huge opportunity to teach children about architecture.
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Lammy springs hope, but you hold the key
Steadily and surely, the Labour Party is building a core of ministers switched on to the importance of the city and the built environment.
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We bring everything upon ourselves
Just as Mind (the National Association for Mental Health) is set to launch its Let off Steam Week, the Sunday Times announces “Get stressed, stay young – the new health advice”.
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OpinionConcrete Boots
Cheesy chipsDeveloper Urban Splash has gone the whole hog in a marketing push for Will Alsop’s chip-inspired flats in the New Islington scheme in Manchester. The promotional website, at www.chipsforsale.com, features an animation of Alsop with a white chip-shop hat lowering onto his head and the flats being doused in ...
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OpinionFrancesco Bandarin
Francesco Bandarin, director of Unesco World Heritage Sites, this week hosted a conference in Vienna to discuss proposed guide-lines designed to protect heritage sites, such as Liverpool, from iconic, high-rise development.
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OpinionMastering his universe
Given that the Pritzker Prize has historically been given to recognise a career of exceptional design, but with no particular emphasis on sustainability, the attendance of some 410 people at 2002 winner Glenn Murcutt’s lecture on May 3 at the RIBA was perhaps the most unequivocal endorsement of the Australian ...
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Ian Martin
What does the modern city need? Grim, free-range cyclists elevated to the status of an urban aristocracy
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Where are the cast lists for buildings?
One of the things that strikes you when wandering around Paris is that in a reasonably prominent part of nearly every building is a little cartouche carved into an appropriate piece of stonework telling you the name of M le Architect responsible.
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Name and shame jobsworth planners
It’s time for some post-election wishes. Less war, less poverty and, after about four months’ campaigning, how about less meaningless political bickering. Oh, and perhaps Her Majesty’s government could do the architecture profession a favour and finally get stuck into the planning system.
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OpinionConcrete Boots
Air pressureDavid Marks and Julia Barfield of Marks Barfield Architects are official campaign champions for a pressure group that wants more power to be generated by wind turbines. The pair join prestigious champions Norman Foster, London mayor Ken Livingstone and TV presenter Chris Tarrant. The name of the pressure group? ...
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Ian Martin
I spent an hour or so sharpening pencils and reassigning them to their proper positions in the HB spectrum