More Opinion – Page 146
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OpinionGarden design
The heart of my neighbourhood, Hampstead Garden Suburb, has recently been destroyed for ever by a high-profile “starchitect”.
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Centre stage
The Architecture Centre Network is a vital force in bringing architecture to the public (“Architecture Centre Network ’could close’ after latest funding blow”, bdonline April 14).
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Exam revision
You report (News April 8) that the Architects Registration Board may lose £41,000 of income from its prescribed examination.
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OpinionDriven to it
Norman Foster must have no shortage of garage space. Having recently built a version of Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion car, he last week took receipt of a Tatra T87 (pictured), the Czech car designed in 1936.Foster’s car was found in a terrible state in a garage in Hannover and has now ...
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OpinionLitmus test
One of the capital’s most famous eye sores, Elephant & Castle’s lurid “pink elephant” shopping centre is to escape the bulldozer. The run-down 46-year-old centre had long been earmarked for demolition.Now Southwark Council has confirmed a U-turn that will see a few licks of paint turn the pink elephant into ...
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OpinionFighting talk
Meanwhile, Boots’s tips for the Stirling shortlist are: David Lea and Pat Borer’s Wales Institute for Sustainable Education (Wise); FOA’s Ravensbourne College of Art; Hadid’s Evelyn Grace school; Foster’s winery at Faustino; One New Change by Jean Nouvel; the Velodrome by Hopkins and Sarah Wigglesworth’s school in Wakefield .But the ...
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OpinionOne size does not fit all
The James Review’s vision of standardised schools is likely to prove as limited as BSF
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OpinionMore than the sum of its parts
Broadgate is the unique example in the Square Mile of a large but coherent urban development that has become an integral extension of the City at this point. This should be treated as whole and not as separate buildings.
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Standard bearer
Your article “Cabe’s BSF design standards ’did not work’, says James” (bdonline April 8) comments on the effectiveness of Cabe in the BSF programme.
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Over down under
In Australia standard templates were rolled out for the Building the Education Revolution, which were based on years of research into functional and environmentally responsive classroom and ancillary facilities with standardised materials and production methods to achieve cost certainty.
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Business plan
In asking how business and ethics can be introduced into architectural education, Alan Brookes (Letters April 8) poses a pertinent question. However, disparaging generalisations as to the motivations of teaching staff will not help in finding the answer.
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OpinionAre engineers undervalued compared with architects?
Yes, says Tristram Carfrae, you rarely hear from engineers; while Piers Heath says the design team is integrated these days
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OpinionSebastian James's centre parting
When will architects hear from Sebastian James, old Etonian and Bullingdon dining club chum of David Cameron, and the man poised to advise on the future of school building? An interim report was expected last September but is yet to see the light of day six months later.
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OpinionEverything’s up in the air
The main issue affecting public funding for architecture is a lack of clarity about the future
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OpinionHas the coalition abandoned zero-carbon housing?
Yes, this U-turn has swept away years of progress, says Zoe Leader; while Andrew Stunell says we need to find the most practical way forward
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OpinionYes, minister, we need more Bykers
Grant Shapps’ enthusiasm is surprising, as the estate embodies the antithesis of his policies
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OpinionThe realities of education
How exactly would Ben Addy (Debate March 11) achieve his proposal to introduce business and ethics into architectural education?