More Opinion – Page 140
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OpinionNY’s High Line can raise our aims too
Britain could create walkways like the High Line – out of old infrastructure or within new buildings
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OpinionAre there too many architects in the UK?
Yes, says Chris Roche, there are simply more than the market demands; while Jack Pringle says controlling numbers only results in future skills shortages
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OpinionChipperfield: Cruel to be kind
Any readers keen to dissuade their offspring from repeating their own calamitous life decisions would do well to take a leaf out of David Chipperfield’s book.
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OpinionDear for the beer
The Redundant Architects Recreation Association (Rara) sold its first home-brewed bottle of ale to RIBA president-elect Angela Brady for a whopping £20.
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OpinionRIBA Council dinner still on the menu
The RIBA Council last week devoted a lengthy discussion to the future of the council’s dinner club.
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OpinionShapps: Panel beater
Housing minister Grant Shapps was speaking at the BRE this week to launch Prince Charles’s eco-friendly – and traditional looking – Natural House at its site in Watford.
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OpinionSummit wrong at the Design Summit?
If any doubts remain about the low regard in which the present government holds architects they were surely put to rest at last Thursday’s Design Summit, staged by the Design Council.
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OpinionRoads to nowhere
Glasgow’s future lies in its 19th century grid plan not its 1960s motorways
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OpinionCarmody Groarke’s rock is worth the weight
If the traffic in London proves particularly slow-going at the start of next week, be assured that it is for a worthwhile cause.
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Loss of plot ratio controls denies man’s need of light
The elimination of plot ratio limits on developments in the City means that any building designed in conformity with the former limits, however good, is liable for redevelopment since all can now be seen as under-using their sites.
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OpinionDetail is the star at Lyric Belfast
How refreshing to see a building that combines care, sophistication and good neighbourliness (Lyric Theatre, Belfast Buildings June 17).
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Civilised society will back Shelter
Having been involved in the planning and design of state-aided public housing since 1945, I totally support Campbell Robb of Shelter (Debate June 10) in his case for more council housing.
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Too much effort given to too few
Ed Hollis’s epiphany on ordinary buildings (“Too much novelty leaves us nowhere” Opinion June 17) struck a chord with me. Over the past decade a disproportionate amount of architectural thought and effort seems to have gone into a few special buildings at the expense of the bulk of everyday ones ...
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Listing will boost loved Hallfield
As a long-standing resident of the Hallfield Estate, I had to respond to D Ingram (Letters June 17).
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Tory policies are costing us dear
The removal of architects from local and central government was a false economy which was predicted.
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Pylons embody our electric dreams
Infrastructure is part of our past, present and future, whether we like it or not — so let’s make the best of it
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OpinionShould part I be optional for architecture students?
Yes, says Robert Mull, the current system has passed its sell-by date; while David Gloster says parts I and II have a symbiotic relationship
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OpinionEncore, Boris
Talking at Base, London’s low carbon economy conference on Wednesday, mayor Boris Johnson began by announcing: “You can recycle everything in London but not speeches.”
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OpinionDoha connection
At the Chelsea Barracks planning meeting on Monday, one local resident told Boots that she had written to the Emir of Qatar – copying in Prince Charles – urging him to return to the drawing board, again.
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OpinionDress to protest
Boots would like to salute two objectors who interrupted a trip to Ascot last week to briefly chain themselves to railings outside the Chelsea Barracks site.