More Opinion – Page 183
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OpinionPassing the buck on bad design
Criticising the government for spending millions on poorly designed housing is to miss a somewhat sensitive point
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Ball report too inward looking
If there is one criticism of Christopher Ball’s report into the Arb, it is that it focuses too much on the interests of the profession and, specifically, the RIBA
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Minority rule
The Royal National Institute of Blind People states that 80% of partially sighted people can recognise a friend at arm’s length and many people with sight problems get around independently
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OpinionThe drawing board versus the digger
With contractors increasingly in the driving seat, architects must work harder to prioritise good design
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OpinionIs the City of London a no-go area for photographers?
Yes says Grant Smith, the photographer stopped and searched by police last week while photographing a church; while Tim Soar argues that harassment can be avoided with some basic good manners
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OpinionYarl’s Wood is beyond pale
The government’s detention centre for “illegal immigrants” makes a strong argument for regime change in the new year
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An unfair share
News analysis (December 11) indicated that shared surfaces work best with short narrow roads, few cars, many people and characterful shops — eg Seven Dials in Camden and Brighton’s New Road
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Waves of change
Tim Keating (Letters December 11) is worried about the cost of switching to a low-carbon economy — something we will have to do anyway as the economically harvestable oil is running out
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Snap reaction
I, too, suffered the same indignation as Grant Smith (News December 11) a couple of years ago, together with screeching police car tyres and three sprinting police officers
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OpinionClean crisp lines
While Le Corbusier helpfully suggested modelling buildings on aeroplanes and ocean liners, readers of John Seabrook’s profile of Zaha Hadid in the current New Yorker will be aware of a new paradigm
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OpinionRIBA must stop navel-gazing
The RIBA’s continuing wrangles over registration and regulation distract it from bigger issues about its future
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OpinionPlace shaping for everyone
Jonathan Glancey’s article “Who will gallop to the rescue?” (November 27) struck a massive chord in Bradford Council’s regeneration department, made up of planning, asset management, transport, housing and economic development
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Dubai dystopia
Congratulations on your editorial on the Dubai debacle (Leader December 4), here’s hoping it gets up people’s noses. There should be no sympathy for those practices who dashed to the trough to help build a dystopian playground for the super-rich, including such energy-guzzling projects as a revolving hotel
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Out of the woods
Sam Webb catalogues a number of fires in timber frame structures to support his claim that timber frames are not a suitable form of construction for built-up areas (Debate December 4). It is notable that all of his examples sit within London and the South-east
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Consensus cost
It was interesting to read Amanda Baillieu's contribution to the Spectator’s December 4 issue, in which she described the reactions to her recent editorial on global warming (Leader November 6)
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Tropical storm
One way that architects can (and should) make a significant change on the overall carbon impact of buildings is to eschew tropical hardwoods. Our research has shown that imported tropical hardwoods are the key driver of deforestation in the tropics, which is responsible for 25% of human-caused CO2 emissions
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OpinionCorrection
Sculptures on the Woolwich riverside (pictured), attributed to Antony Gormley in last week’s Urban Trawl on Greenwich were in fact by Peter Burke.
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Opinion‘Sustainability’ is a dangerous mirage
Even in Dubai, the language of greenwash is used to distract us from the real design issues
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OpinionZaha and the life of pies
Zaha Hadid Architects is the only practice still doing well enough to appear in the Times’s annual list of the 100 fastest-growing UK private companies. The firm came in at number 67 with 67.43% annual sales growth