More Opinion – Page 139
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OpinionFoundations of a solid career
How familiar it was to read Michael Gold’s response (Life Classes, July 1) to the question “What got you started?” (“School and parents saying there was no future in being an artist”). I embarked on a lifetime of architecture in the same way.
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OpinionThe missing link in cladding
Your potted history of cladding systems (CPD July 8) omits a critical pioneer: Michael Pearson of Charles B Pearson Son & Partners who designed Burne House telecommunications centre just off the Westway in London.
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OpinionLet’s cultivate our garden cities
The lessons from garden cities could apply to communities in large cities as well as new towns (“Give us a new generation of garden cities!” bdonline July 11).
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OpinionShuttleworth is not alone in working with others
Reading Steven Johnson, especially his latest book, it becomes clear that, in science, the concept of the Eureka “moment” is mistaken. The same must be true of the lone-author notion in architecture, at least for large complex projects (“Row over Gherkin’s ’creator’” News July 8).
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OpinionBorder skirmish
Nicholas Grimshaw is unimpressed with Cecil Balmond and Charles Jencks’ new sculpture at Gretna, he told an audience on London’s South Bank this week.
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OpinionGenius can be a team effort
As the row over 30 St Mary Axe shows, building authorship is usually the result of a shared culture
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OpinionCreed has lit up the Scotsman Steps
An artistic intervention has succeeded in transforming a less than pleasant journey
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OpinionIs the proposed change in use classes a good thing?
Yes, says Marco Goldschmied, our current system does not work with the way we live now; while Hugh Ellis says deregulation would harm local infrastructure provision
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OpinionRIBA plans to talk in circles
RIBA council may have managed to retain its dinner club, as Boots reported last week, but will it be as successful in quashing plans to move council meetings out of the RIBA chamber?
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OpinionPriority boarding
It was all easyJet at the Bartlett’s summer show last week, where visitors could speedy-buy their way in.
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OpinionHard hitter
Despite reaching the grand old age of 77, Richard Rogers is never one to shy away from a sporting challenge.
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OpinionGender agenda
Were women athletes and spectators considered in the design of the Olympic Park? This was the question being debated at an event run by the London Women & Planning Forum as BD went to press.
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OpinionBennetts’ assumptions don’t stand up to scrutiny
Mecanoo built its reputation on a certain degree of originality and innovation, replies Robert Slinger.
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Planning reform is force for good
The Town & Country Planning Association’s Hugh Ellis seems to be under the impression that architects exist solely to serve the planning system, and planners “control” quality (“Ex presidents urge RIBA to back planning reform” News July 1).
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OpinionFinally some good news
The plans to relax use class orders promise some intriguing opportunities for architects
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Cost constraints have saved London’s fabric
This week’s opening of the M74 extension project (“Urban mortorway divides Glasgow” June 24) finally sees the completion of Glasgow’s inner-city orbital motorway.
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9/11 conspiracy is a no-brainer
Frankly, I do not see what the fuss is all about with reference to your front page cover story this week (“RIBA comes under fire for hosting ’bonkers’ 9/11 talk”).
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Plymouth: a port in a storm
No one pays much attention to Plymouth, so, to a native, Owen Hatherley’s survey (Urban Trawl June 24) was very welcome.
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OpinionThe truth behind invalid carriages
Steve Parnell’s witty image of a “super-sized Matchbox collection” (Buildings June 24 ) for the motor-cars stuck on the Riverside Museum’s wall is brilliant.