More Opinion – Page 136
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Opinion
Getting the Nord story straight
I write in response to the piece in Boots (August 12) regarding Wexford County Council Headquarters. The project was designed by the practice Nord LLP, which was renamed Robin Lee Architecture in 2011.
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OpinionBuilding an escape from the ghetto
The results of the very rich living next to the very poor can be seen in Hackney and Clapham
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OpinionCan planning policy safeguards stop overdevelopment?
Yes, says Jeremy Blackburn, they will protect the countryside; while Peter Nixon says that reform is going too far
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OpinionSplashing out on Stirling after-party
If you’ve ever dreamt of partying in the largest listed building in Europe now may be your chance.
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OpinionReed all about it
Boots cannot honestly say she is going to miss outgoing president Ruth Reed.
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OpinionHerzog & de Meuron under the radar
It must be a sign of how tough times are – Herzog & de Meuron has finally seen fit to launch a website.
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OpinionHowells' wedding party
Boots would like to congratulate Glenn Howells, who is tying the knot next month in Edgbaston.
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OpinionShould the Kingdom Tower be built?
Yes says Adrian Smith, founding partner at Adrian Smith & Gordon Gill Architecture, designer of the Kingdom Tower. No says Bill Dunster, founder of Zedfactory.
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OpinionWill riots reshape our cities?
The past week’s events highlight the fact that a large minority is still excluded from the urban renaissance dream.
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OpinionCabe needs a peaceable chairman, not Paul Finch
When a public servant who has responsibility for running an impartial organisation, trusted by the public to make even-handed decisions on deeply controversial matters, has himself become part of the controversy, he can no longer do his job.
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Holes in Swiss school argument
Fees to study architecture in Switzerland might be cheaper, but I reckon that when you factor in the cost of living, you’re going to probably break even.
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Why do we need so many sheds?
Francis Maude is not the only minister to favour sheds (“Minister favours ’sheds’ for hospitals” News July 22).
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OpinionSainsbury faults not just stylistic
Richard Pain dismisses criticism of the National Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing as “petty stylistic squabbling” (Letters July 29), but the building’s faults are not due to its rather silly po-mo styling alone.
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OpinionEvery little independent victory helps
Modern or traditional – if a design is at odds with the local ethos it makes no difference
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OpinionIs Cabe prejudiced against traditional architecture?
Yes, says Ptolemy Dean, it is dominated by modernists; while Francis Terry says it is only opposed to bad traditionalism
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OpinionNord ignored over Wexford County Council headquarters
The recent publication of the Wexford County Council headquarters building has caused much consternation at the offices of Nord, the practice that won the competition for the building in 2007 and subsequently went on to build it.
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OpinionFarewell, Rupert
The litany of resignations from News International mounts by the day – Tom Dyckhoff has quit his job as the Times’s architecture critic.
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OpinionFuchsia shock
Boots is keen to hear that Angela Brady’s plans at the RIBA don’t end with new policies and restructures.
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OpinionTough at the top
The announcement that US practice Adrian Smith & Gordon Gill Architecture is designing the 1km-high Kingdom Tower in Saudi Arabia attracted plenty of headlines