More Opinion – Page 158
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OpinionDriving force
Jonathan Glancey is right (October 29): Cabe’s contribution to procuring buildings of real merit has, at best, been opaque, and surely hardly justifies the huge resource invested in that quango at public expense
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OpinionDot to dot results: 29 October 2010
Last week’s winner was Maria Hellman of London W3, who identified the Beth Sholom Synagogue by Frank Lloyd Wright at Elkins Park, Pennsylvania
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On the politics of beauty
If Victorian architects had had to contend with the current generation of design watchdogs, many of our most striking buildings would not have got off the drawing board
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Design quangos’ famous last words
Big Society rhetoric seems to be finding its mark as the spending review cuts take hold.
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OpinionIs the dream of the Thames Gateway dead?
Yes, says Mark Brearley, we must now fight to salvage what we can; but Terry Farrell sees great potential in what’s already been achieved
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OpinionNouvel’s lobby proves hard to live with
With last week’s opening of One New Change, Jean Nouvel may not want for admirers in London, but in New York he is proving a rather harder sell
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OpinionThe NHS is not the sole marker of social welfare
There couldn’t be a worse time for the government to cut social housing budgets, says Jack Pringle.
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OpinionAn agency to be cherished
Design for London is a model for the future of planning, and needs to be protected
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Education must seize the moment
We have a brief opportunity to fight for a better understanding of architectural education’s worth.
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OpinionIs the coalition government serious about design?
Yes, says John Penrose, withdrawing Cabe’s funding was a very hard decision; while Jack Pringle feels the evidence shows otherwise.
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OpinionDJ West on the mic
Those keen to experience the questionable joys of Studio Egret West’s David West rapping - yes rapping - still have a chance to do so.
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OpinionTowards a new architecture
Many architects have long wished Cabe would go away. At last they’ve got their wish.
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OpinionLet’s keep Cabe and let Arb go
What a triumph! As you report (News October 22), the architectural profession is to lose a useful organisation, Cabe, and keep a useless one, Arb. But I have a suggestion
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Protection racket
I note that the RIBA is not lobbying for abolition of protection of title. It should be, as protection of title is virtually useless
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No opportunity
Ruth Reed claims (News October 22) that rationalising the regulation and registration of the profession (by giving it to the RIBA?) would “provide maximum clarity and economy for consumers and the profession”
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OpinionThe wider impact
Your leader of October 1 (“Fixing the regeneration game”) and news story of October 8 (“£5.5 billion plan for Liverpool Docks in for planning”) are connected
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Ticking the boxes
Bill Dunster wonders why everyone isn’t rallying behind the “world-beating” level 6 Code for Sustainable Homes (Debate October 15). Perhaps not everyone is quite so convinced
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OpinionWe must rise to the challenges of school design
The coming years will not be easy says Heinz Richardson, director of Jestico & Whiles
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OpinionNuclear offers a significant opportunity for architects
With government backing, industrial architecture is set to become an important part of urban regeneration says Iain MacDonald, director of YRM.
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