More Opinion – Page 179
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Starting point
There has been a great deal of coverage recently on the schemes funded under the first round of Kickstart
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OpinionHomes are not political pawns
There is no official body willing to lift us out of the Kickstart mess
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OpinionUnreconstructed
When my beautiful Mark VII Jaguar sustained an ugly crumple to the offside wing, I took it to the garage for repairs with the express instructions that they ignore the mildly patinated and seductively curved bottle-green original coachwork but rather patch the offending area with some functional construction in angled ...
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Icing on the cake
I was pleasantly surprised to be contacted for cake orders when my photograph appeared in BD last Friday (Letters February 12)
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Do the sums
We must have great sympathy with Paul Dinsdale (Letters February 12) about the lack of work but when are fellow architects going to realise that in a career of 50 years there will be four or five recessions and there is nothing the RIBA can do about it
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OpinionDeconstructing a visit from Eisenman
Today’s students will make pilgrimages to see celebrities, not Santiago de Compostela
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OpinionShould architects try harder to please the public?
Yes, because they live in a pseudo-intellectual ghetto, says Malcolm Millais; while Piers Gough says architecture is far too important to be left to the public
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OpinionVery wound up
News that the practice headed by Richard Seifert’s son John has been wound up by the tax- man might come as a relief to news editors everywhere
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OpinionWhat is Cabe trying to hide?
Withholding Kickstart round one information could do long-term damage to housing standards
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OpinionFame and misfortune
Clarity, I often think, is overrated. As Burke knew, a clear idea is another name for a little idea. But I’d nonetheless like to clarify a small item in last week’s Boots
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OpinionPositively wrong
Your front page (February 5) asks: “Where have all the architects gone?” and reports that the RIBA “doesn’t know where the 2,500 architects who haven’t signed up for Jobseekers Allowance have gone”
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OpinionCough up! A Roman circus is in town
The fate of Colchester’s Roman circus rests in your pocket
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Swede and sour
I was left rather puzzled and bemused by Carolyn Steel’s article (Opinion February 5)
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Quality at a cost
Carolyn Steel’s article on Swedish architectural quality (Opinion February 5) brought to mind my visit to Stockholm about 16 years ago, from which I have two vivid memories
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Power failure
If the London mayor is “confident about Viñoly Battersea plan” (News February 5) then he has not understood it, like so many who are taken in by the highly sophisticated illustrations, he believes the pretty pictures
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OpinionAs we sow, so shall we reap
Raising taxes and cutting public spending will not save us. Only investment can recover our ailing economy
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OpinionIs it OK to run architectural competitions for Haiti?
Gavin Browning argues it’s an architect’s duty to respond to humanitarian disasters, while Cameron Sinclair urges the industry to follow through with its designs — ideas are not enough
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OpinionText assured
Architects fired from projects by text message will be heartened to read that the boot is now on the other foot
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OpinionMaking the best of what there is
As those who don’t get past the headlines (News January 29) could be forgiven for believing that I’m about to recommend a town centre scrappage scheme, perhaps I could make clear that my view is virtually the opposite
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OpinionZero points for zero carbon
The government may have broken its promises over zero-carbon schools but it continues to put its faith in a misleading benchmark