More Opinion – Page 128
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OpinionTake us seriously, but don’t be serious
Versailles shows the significance of interiors, but it’s impossible to escape their artful wit
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OpinionAre government-backed mortgages too risky?
Yes, says Ian Mulheirn, they involve taking a lot of risk onto the public sector balance sheet; while Nick Jopling says it will increase housing supply
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Councils will lose powers to prevent development
Ron Heath (“Planning is built on democracy” Letters November 18) is right to point out the democratic deficit in the Draft National Planning Policy Framework and the Localism Bill but it is potentially even worse than he states in this world of Orwellian “newspeak”.
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OpinionRemember the RIBA’s masque
Your Archive picture (November 18) did not show a dress in the shape of Liverpool Cathedral but the St Paul’s Cathedral costume used in the finale of the masque about Sir Christopher
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No pity for ASL’s management
Regarding last week’s front page story, (“Austin-Smith Lord owed £11m for Abu Dhabi work” News November 18), here are the facts: plenty of practices are trading here and getting paid; the Abu Dhabi government is still a viable partner to do business with and not the devil incarnated.
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OpinionPrince shouldn’t back Waitrose
Prince Charles seems to think a pastiche of classical architecture can lend some credibility to blatant overdevelopment (“In store for Poundbury” News November 18).
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OpinionReviving docks is no new problem
The Royal Docks (News November 18) have been a subject of urban studies in UK schools for at least a decade. The LDA could find some past student projects eye-opening.
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OpinionSpecialists are winning out
BD’s Architect of the Year Awards show that in a harsh climate, doing one thing well can help a practice thrive
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OpinionThe creative power of opposition
Poland’s church architecture reveals the imaginative force of decades working outside the regime
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OpinionDo referendums have a place in planning decisions?
Yes, says Hank Dittmar, local communities are best placed to decide what will suit them; but Peter Wilson sees referendums as cynical ploys to shift the blame
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OpinionHow Foster’s has been keeping its Apple HQ under wraps
Plus news from the Architect of the Year Awards and Heatherwick’s Royal Docks project
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Chipperfield Biennale report jumped the gun
Like many people I was rather surprised to hear about my appointment as the curator to the next Architectural Biennale in Venice (News November 11).
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It’s time to agree on contracts
I have always suspected that lawyers create fees for themselves by taking “accepted”contracts and adding small but critical changes that they can debate with other lawyers to nobody’s benefit but their own.
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Plans bode well for Aberdeen
I visit Aberdeen frequently. On nearly every trip I have to walk round the Union Terrace Gardens when I would like to walk through them or visit them to enjoy the peace and greenery of the place. This I cannot do because of my limited mobility.
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Planning is built on democracy
I refer to your leader last week “Democratising planning” and am wondering about the accuracy of your comments.
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Slow-mo pomo poem’ll show ’em
In response to David Rosenberg’s review of the Radical Postmodernism Architectural Review
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OpinionUncovering hidden passions from Aberdeen to Nottingham
This week Boots checks in on Peter Murray, David Chipperfield and the YAYA hopefuls
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OpinionDemocratising planning
Aberdeen shows us how the idea of referendum on development is easier to manage than the reality
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OpinionShould we build an airport in the Thames Estuary?
Yes, says Tony Travers, the alternative will harm economic growth; while Rodney Chambers says it is neither needed nor wanted