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OpinionEmbassy light
Designing an embassy should be a dream commission, but it appears as fraught with difficulties as it is loaded with promise, writes Robert Booth. That was the impression given by an intriguing open ideas contest run by the Czech ambassador to London, which BD was invited to help judge. Scores ...
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Ian Martin
Correctly predict ‘Budget Boost For Regeneration’. You’ve been Quangoed comes in at 12-1, then Go to Pub and Hair of Dog
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Now we need to build on 50/50 success
We got there. International Women’s Day on Tuesday saw BPTW Partnership from London become the 250th practice to sign up to our 50/50 Charter for more women in architecture.
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African food for thought lacks bite
Summertime in Cape Town is like one of those celebrity-spotting slots on Channel 5, and the recent calendar highlight for the industry A-list was the Design Indaba.
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OpinionConcrete Boots
Journo gristDeputy prime minister John Prescott has a fairly well-established warm-up routine he uses at press conferences these days. It involves taking a journalist to task about a particular story that upset him and then broadly criticising all journalism. Maybe it is a ploy to get the journalists in line ...
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Ian Martin
Sitting in a Stalinist multi-level bachelor pad with shagpile carpet and a piranha pool is my client, ‘Comrade Orange’
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Following the herd on ethics
Well done for raising the temperature of moral debate (News Analysis March 4). If professional magazines don’t do it, these difficult issues will go unexamined.
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A different tune
It is OK to design for an oppressive regime as long as one does not play the lead fiddle to the tune of oppression.
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Loose morals
Your article on ethics exposes the utter lack of a moral imperative in architecture.
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Chemical reaction
So Mairi Levitt and Robert Adam would willingly design a germ warfare experimentation centre for the British government because they both believe it has strict regulation on such things and would act ethically.
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Animal alarm
I was astonished that not one of your panellists would reject a commission to design a government-backed animal research centre.
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Lead the way
Architects should lead their clients and insist that all buildings use renewable energies, doing away with unsustainable materials and dinosaur construction techniques that use massive amounts of embedded energies and reliance on fossil fuels.
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Royal philosophy
For probably the first time in my life, I agree with something Prince Charles has said.
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Wrong direction
Where did Arup’s project architect derive the symbology for the bus station at Vauxhall (Works February 25)?
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Piling on the perks
RTKL was mentioned in BD’s careers guide as one of the top five firms for perks. It did not, however, mention nearly half the benefits that we offer.
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Beyond the circus of the media darlings
Once upon a time, buildings were designed to serve specific purposes. They were judged on how well, and, at best, how beautifully, they served them.
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Barring foreigners will damage UK
I read with dismay the news that the Home Office is now barring foreign architects and trainees from pursuing a career in Britain (News February 25).
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Ultimate sacrifice
It is not the 50/50 Charter that’s half of Britain’s challenge, it’s the red tape hemmed in with the old-school mindset.
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Wasted resources
I welcome your powerful focus on the barriers being put in the way of foreign talent.
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Doing our duty
Further to your articles on the position of citizens from outside the EU seeking registration in the UK. Even if the Home Office is seeking to stop such persons remaining in the UK, Arb is not.