More Opinion – Page 167
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Don't Cabe in
Alan Howarth’s quote (“To neglect [design review] would be a false economy.” News July 2) seems a little self-righteous
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An outside eye
An impartial design review by Cabe is a valuable check for design quality in urban areas – we need someone to add quality to our bargain basement architecture
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Local expertise
Design input from Cabe is similar in an important way to that provided by Prince Charles – it is undemocratic
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OpinionChelsea victory for new Barracks designs?
Some of architecture’s great and good have been given an early sighting of the new Chelsea Barracks designs
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Losing out from laissez faire
New thinking is needed in the planning system, but simply ditching all the rules will not improve the built environment
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Your enemy’s enemy is not your friend
Whatever the coalition policies bring, we must avoid any nostalgia for New Labour
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OpinionLet’s build more Brynmawrs
Showcase factories would act as beacons of hope in the economic downturn.
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OpinionDo RIBA’s measures do enough to tackle low pay?
RIBA president Ruth Reed says the institute will define reasonable pay levels, but Keith Tomlinson argues the profession needs to fight harder for fair wages
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Viñoly, Finch and redundancy fears
At Rafael Viñoly’s London Festival of Architecture talk last week, Roger Zogolovitch asked him whether Battersea Power Station should be knocked down for the sake of London?
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OpinionDon't run scared of Prince Charles
If the RIBA and the rest had had the balls to let Rogers’ Chelsea Barracks design go to planning, and welcome HRH’s views alongside the rest of the interested parties, this whole thing could have been thrashed out in the open, and perhaps we could have had a sensible debate ...
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Lost delicacy
As much as Richard Rogers’ oeuvre is to be admired, no one seems to have discussed the design of the Chelsea Barracks scheme itself – nothwithstanding Prince Charles’s predictable but injudicious and unconstitutional opposition to it, and Quinlan Terry’s indigestible neo-gothic courtyard alternative
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Out of touch elite
Three cheers for Prince Charles! He has become the people’s champion on so many issues.
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Terry's not urban
Charles should not meddle in the democratic process, using deceitful and secret letters and emails to other country’s royals.
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Slaying monsters
Thank you Prince Charles for helping to stop such monsters from blighting this great city with such faceless banality
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Corrections: 02 July 2010
Our story “Market garden plans for Chelsea Barracks” (News June 11) said that the new scheme would include a 44-storey tower
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OpinionNothing is cast in stone
The emergency budget doesn’t entirely spell doom and gloom for the profession, but the rules for funding projects are changing
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OpinionRafael Viñoly: Manchester City’s hot new signing
Rafael Viñoly speaks to BD about the World Cup, his plans for the world’s richest football club, and whether at Battersea Power Station he can end 30 years of hurt.
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On the art of surviving degree shows
It’s no wonder parents of architecture students feel bewildered at graduation shows