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OpinionEverything in the Gardens is rosy
Gillian Darley writes an interesting piece ( Opinion May 17 ), but her fears for the decline of the Festival Gardens are unfounded.
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OpinionOld folks need to be coaxed
Your call to arms is so timely (“ Improving elderly care is an opportunity, not a chore ”, Leader May 17).
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OpinionSkateboarders are no sideshow
My son (Louis Tingle 1986-2004) spent the best part of his life at the Southbank skateboarders’ undercroft ( Debate May 17 ): perfecting his craft, making friends and participating in the most unique and diverse space in London.
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OpinionLeak could be lowest point yet in sorry saga of RMJM
Is Jonathan French paying for telling his employers what they didn’t want to hear?
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OpinionWhat is the point of architecture schools?
Architectural education needs a proper shake-up which needs to begin by putting more money into teaching, argues Will Hunter
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OpinionWhy BD doesn't offer unpaid internships
If you can’t afford to pay your interns then you can’t afford to have them, says Anna Winston
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OpinionImproving elderly care is an opportunity, not a chore
Better-designed homes for the old would help ease housing pressures for all, says Amanda Baillieu
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OpinionLiverpool is wasting this wasteland
The Festival Gardens’ riverside promenade is a depressingly lifeless place to stroll, says Gillian Darley
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OpinionShould the skateboarder community have to move from the Southbank undercroft?
Campaigners have criticised plans to turn the Centre’s skate park into retail units as part of a £120m revamp
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OpinionPFI is the private fiasco initiative
I cannot believe the government is persevering with the PFI approach to the funding of public service construction — and only the large practices are going to get a look-in.
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OpinionAn independent valuation of Arb
Can we know the identity of Mr W’s second architect (“Arb strikes off architect for trying to smear client”, News May 10 ), and are they now being investigated by the Arb to confirm the validity of their valuation?
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OpinionClassicists were no craftsmen
Classical architecture of the Italian renaissance had already rejected many of the craft-reliant aspects of the architecture of the Middle Ages — Geoffrey Scott criticised the gothic revival for its demand for craftsmanship which had been lost due to the “simpler” construction required in classical architecture — so it is ...
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OpinionKeep up the ribbing, RIBA
Hank Dittmar is wrong to suggest it is inappropriate for the RIBA to run campaigns ( Opinion May 3 ).
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OpinionBig problems for small practices
There is a subtlety missing from Ruth Brennan’s quote from me in your Letters page last week.
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OpinionArts centres must adapt to survive
Funding cuts will see more buildings follow the fate of The Public, says Ellis Woodman
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OpinionArchitects Registration Board: Know your place
An architect has been struck off for getting into debt. But is this really ‘professional misconduct’ to anyone other than the Lord Snootys of the profession?
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OpinionWe have the technology…
The burgeoning TMT sector is changing the face of London’s offices, says Amanda Baillieu
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OpinionFlats don’t always need to be flattened
The refurbishment of Paris’s Tour Bois-le-Prêtre shows us how it could be done, says Owen Hatherley
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OpinionAre architects being too optimistic about future work?
Do the figures really bear out the belief that things are looking up?