More Opinion – Page 151
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OpinionWise’s green credentials are cold comfort
Our editor may have chosen David Lea and Pat Borer’s Wise building at the Centre for Alternative Technology as his favourite of last year …
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OpinionClosing the libraries is just the start
Localism seems to require a near impossible suspension of disbelief
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OpinionPop-ups: has innovation been replaced by exploitation?
Yes, says James R Payne, it’s a symptom of how young architects are treated today; but Andrew Waugh says this is recycling at its best
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OpinionPrefabs need not be box-like
I read with interest your article “Architects start work on prefab school templates”.
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OpinionSend for Rogers
Education secretary Michael Gove is quoted saying: “We won’t be getting Richard Rogers to design your school”
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OpinionPrince in context
The Prince of Wales’s reputation in some quarters as an opinionated supporter of classicist architecture certainly doesn’t reflect his whole view of people and places
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OpinionBerlin's walls
Happily Berlin’s alternative ways of doing things do not depend on the survival of Tacheles
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OpinionGet the best from the 3D explosion
The building information model (bim) strategy of using a virtual 3D model to coordinate the design process and generate 2D drawings and schedules has obvious attractions
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OpinionGove cannot go it alone
The government announced last week that Building Schools for the Future is to be replaced by a programme within which all projects will be based on one of six standardised templates.
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OpinionInitiatives need solid foundations too
Stop-start policy-making can never make for good architecture
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OpinionDaddy would not be proud
To borrow from 1066 and All That (which I’m sure Gove would like us all to do), Toby Young is repulsive but right
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Building enmity
The surge in new school building and refurbishing, sponsored by the government and administered by BSF, is to meet the backlog of neglect in the existing stock, caused by many years of shameful lack of maintenance.
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History lessons
Toby Young is right – to a degree – but the argument is getting polarised (News, January 28).
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Blame game
Education has been a political football in the UK since 1945 and this has been, and continues to be, detrimental to the progress of this country
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OpinionPreset limits
Out of the costly BSF frying pan and into the now frugal but still centralised fire! (“’Flat-pack’ schools will make architects redundant” bdonline January 28)
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Falling flat
As someone who has fought battles with his local authority over the quality of design for our local PFI-funded school building projects, the news about flat-pack schools is about as depressing as it gets (bdonline, January 28)