More Opinion – Page 188
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Food for thought
Having just returned from the Rotterdam Biennale, I can’t help but feel Oliver Wainwright’s write-up was a little harsh (Culture October 9)
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Cockerell & bull
In the final episode of Kevin McCloud’s Grand Tour, earlier this month on Channel 4, I was distressed to hear McCloud attribute the design of St George’s Hall, in Liverpool, to Charles R Cockerell
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OpinionCounting the cost of Stirling
Is the UK’s top architecture prize now merely rewarding buildings with generous budgets?
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OpinionBright new talent from tough times
The downturn is shaking up the natural order to architecture’s benefit
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OpinionFourteen years on, has the Stirling Prize lost its sparkle?
Jay Merrick of the Independent argues the prize needs to be a catalyst for change, while Hugh Pearman says we should be proud of this popular annual award
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OpinionStirling after-party aftershocks
A surreptitious flick of the wrist and Boots found herself with a Stirling Prize after-party ticket, which turned out to be in a Corney & Barrow basement wine bar
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OpinionWe all need more play time
This government edict is indicative of the way Britain is doing its best to undermine its long-term future — and its architecture
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OpinionEnd of an era for embassies
Today’s opening of Tony Fretton’s Warsaw embassy could mark the final days of the Foreign Office as an enlightened client
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OpinionManchester guardians
I am sure that I won’t be the first to point out that the photograph in your article on Gateway House in Manchester (News October 9) depicts the wrong building
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EU registration
I would like to clarify that the requirements for registration as an architect for those non-UK trained applicants who have EU rights cannot legally include the need to secure a part III qualification in professional practice in the UK (Letters October 9)
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OpinionTime to return to the grass roots
A new form of “Civic Trust” is needed to get local projects the recognition they deserve
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Structural fault
Your correspondent Liam Kellehar (Letters October 9) tells us that Spanish architectural courses have a structural engineering requirement, with the capacity to design steel and reinforced concrete structures, something that should be incorporated in England
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Accordia discord
The review of Dwelling: Accordia about the Stirling prizewinner (Culture September 4) seems to talk mainly about what the book doesn’t cover
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OpinionUtility integrity
When was the last time a sub-station attained this level of design —or press, or debate? (Works October 9)
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Gender solutions
Re: “Reed vows to fight for students and women” (News October 9), I am a female architect who has stuck it out for over 25 years, and at times it has been very unpleasant; my lovelife was even pried into at one job interview
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Keep reading BD
Postal strikes are affecting deliveries of BD, particularly for practices in London
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OpinionSlow train to our lumpen fantasy past
Despite renewed interest in their radical edge, our suburbs stand for the failure of idealism
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OpinionCan the profession survive public spending cuts in its current form?
No says Barry Munday, after the election we will be into a very different landscape; while Levitt Bernstein’s Matthew Goulcher says new funding streams will lead to a focus on high quality products
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OpinionDeputies agree to differ over sisters
Boots would like to have been a fly on the wall in the Milton Davis household last week when news broke that Allies & Morrison’s Three Sisters scheme had been knocked back by the government