More Opinion – Page 133
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OpinionA home where the buffalo don’t roam
A painful modernisation scheme will see Ahmedabad’s riverside slums emptied and concreted over
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OpinionIs design of Britain’s public housing over-regulated?
Yes, says David Prichard, there are too many sources of guidance; while Robert Klaschka thinks we need greater consistency
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OpinionAngela Brady goes east
Given the choice of chairing a session on housing at the Labour party conference or going to the UIA conference in Tokyo …
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OpinionRIBA council cosies up
Angela Brady’s first RIBA council meeting, as Boots has reported before, will take place not in the council chamber but in the Wren room on the sixth floor.
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OpinionHOK's high flyer
HOK managed to borrow a walk-through metal detector from its client Gatwick for its “aviation” party last week, but Boots was mystified why that theme had been chosen.
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OpinionSound of pomo
Guests at the V&A’s suitably styled postmodernism opening party were entertained by Annie Lennox, who even persuaded some of them into a sing-a-long of her old Eurythmics standard “Sweet Dreams Are Made of This”.
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OpinionCritical mass
Reactions to the V&A’s show among the pomo old guard have been mixed. Charles Jencks stood up at the opening dinner to call for “two cheers for the exhibition”.
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OpinionRed tape strangles creativity in house design
The construction industry is burdened with an array of regulation and red tape.
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OpinionWhere is this war on red tape?
Despite many fine words, the government has not delivered on its promise to reduce regulation
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OpinionSuccess is all in the execution...
The shoddy application of good planning ideas has sold our towns and cities short
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OpinionIs architecture best taught by practising architects?
Yes, says Gordon Murray, practitioners understand the design process best; but Kevin Rhowbotham feels it may already too late to salvage a sinking discipline
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RIBA is right to raise space issue
It’s good that the RIBA has raised the issue of space standards - such an important subject in housing and yet almost completely neglected by the mainstream press (which I think must be fearful of losing the advertising custom of the volume housebuilders who flood their property pages).
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OpinionGive Aberdeen's gardens a chance
It was really disappointing to read, at the end of Owen Hatherley’s otherwise perceptive article on Aberdeen (Urban Trawl September 16), the uninformed judgment on Union Terrace Gardens.
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Planning reform threatens quality
I fear that Anne Power is absolutely right (“Planning policy risks creating city ghettos” News September 16): the only reason most developers seek real architectural talent is when they need to get a tricky scheme through the planning system.
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OpinionPomo’s a no-no
Bets are on as to who should be given the RIBA Gold Medal, and the hot favourite is Joseph Rykwert.
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OpinionNot your Mann
British Council architecture and design supremo Vicky Richardson has decided that, in a break from tradition, the curator of next year’s British pavilion at the Venice Biennale will be chosen by open competition, with no predetermined theme imposed.
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OpinionRio defensive
Country house architect John Pardey played down reports this week that he is designing a £3.5 million mansion in the Cotswolds for Manchester United footballer Rio Ferdinand.
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OpinionRogue saviour?
UBS’s £1.3 billion loss generated by rogue trader Kweku Adoboli will affect staff bonuses, but will it also have an impact on the Swiss bank’s new London HQ, Boots wonders?
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OpinionBirthday lettuce
Paying tribute to Terence Conran at the designer’s 80th birthday celebrations at Tate Modern this week, Stephen Bayley noted that Frank Gehry recently marked his own 80th with a cake resembling his Walt Disney concert hall.
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OpinionPutting it into practice
Alex de Rijke’s appointment at the RCA heralds a welcome shift towards closer links between teaching and practice