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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
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OpinionRSHP’s One Hyde Park is a credit not a carbuncle
You’ve got it wrong again. In your report on One Hyde Park’s candidacy for the 2011 Carbuncle Cup, you write that “The mayor’s planners, headed by Giles Dolphin, must carry particular blame.”
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OpinionGive us more info about embassies
All very sad for those that failed to make the Foreign Office’s new framework agreement (“Embassy architects axed from Foreign Office work” News September 9), but there are lots of “award-winning” practices out there? Do we know who did make it?
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OpinionCut paperwork not the policy
Current planning policy is certainly over-verbose but appropriate in many ways (“Osborne and Pickles pledge to press on with planning changes” bdonline September 5).
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Time for RIBA to name and shame
The Case for Space campaign (“RIBA launches housing space standards campaign”, bdonline September 14) is a welcome move.
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Photographers have no agenda
Perhaps the comfort that comes with success has distanced Tim Soar from the reality of the amateur (“Photographers need perspective”, Letters September 2).
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OpinionStirling etched on the memory
Pilgrims round Stirling & Gowan’s Leicester gem did not only include architects (Letters September 9).
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OpinionA developers’ plague on all our houses
This clumsy bid to streamline planning will bring a rash of crass, profitable ghettos
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OpinionDo architects need to look beyond the black turtleneck?
Yes, architects should express their own style says Dan Wood; while Cordula Rau says there are many ways to make the best of black
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OpinionReed's Hoxton fin-ish
The great and the good of architecture turned up last week to witness the handover speeches of RIBA presidents Ruth Reed and Angela Brady.
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OpinionBorn again
While Design Council Cabe is notable by its silence in the debate raging over planning reform, its former paymasters at CLG must be relieved.
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OpinionFighting talk
Neil Spiller may be pushing on with his plan to oust Greenwich University’s part-time staff in favour of Bartlett-educated full-timers but not fast enough, it seems.
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OpinionNo reservations
If you hoped to secure a night in the David Kohn and Fiona Banner designed Room for London when booking opened last week, you had to be quick off the mark.
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OpinionCurse of Norman
The well-respected Fast Company magazine turned its attention to Norman Foster last week.
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OpinionPolicy is only half the story
The government ignores the need for investment and training in its eagerness to strip the red tape from the planning system
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OpinionThe Hoxton effect
One of the first rules for a RIBA president is not to talk in metaphors or even riddles.
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RIBA’s attempts to be 'cool' make it irrelevant
In a week when the front pages of the right-wing national press have been filled with stories about planning legislation, is the RIBA lobbying a hostile government for a greater role for architects in delivering this “sustainable development”? No?
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Finance is the key to planning
Regarding proposed changes to planning rules, what’s needed is for the government to allow local authorities greater freedom to borrow money to finance infrastructure, acquire land and assemble development sites.
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An inside view of Leicester's gem
Twenty-odd years ago, I was shown round the Leicester Engineering Building (Inspiration, September 2) by the then professor of engineering.