More Opinion – Page 190
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Make sure you're not out of place
Harvard is an unlikely setting for a drama about the fragility of belonging.
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OpinionBrighton cheers RIBA suggestion
Historian Tristan Hunt’s suggestion that the RIBA should “expel” members who consistently produce bad work was met with cheers in Brighton this week, to the consternation of RIBA president Ruth Reed
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OpinionWould a Tory government be good for heritage?
The Conservatives are keen to listen and have a commitment to historic buildings, says Catherine Croft; while Richard Coleman thinks they’ll find it hard to strike a balance between regeneration and heritage
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We’ll do the math
I wish to clarify the situation regarding the authorship of the masterplan for the former Radcliffe Infirmary site in Oxford (News analysis September 18)
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OpinionCladding is not just skin deep
To answer Owen Hatherley’s rather naive question about over-cladding older residential tower blocks (Opinion September 18), most residential blocks have to be refurbished and upgraded with residents in place.
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OpinionExposing the mayor’s failings
Richard Rogers’ resignation as Boris Johnson’s design adviser reflects on a mayor with little interest in architecture
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OpinionUnited we stand... and amble
Why “inclusive placemaking” in parks is threatening to divide our communities
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OpinionUrban legend
The very first issue that I bought of Monica Pidgeon’s AD was January 1960 on Frank Lloyd Wright
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Dress the part
As a part II student studying for the RIBA part III examinations in order to be registered as an architect, I was shocked to find out that an EU student can gain entry to the register by simply demonstrating four years of academic qualification and two years of professional experience
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Undue influence
As one of the candidates that stood for election for the Arb, I was pleased to see the ruling by the Advertising Standards Authority (News September 11)
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A holy bond
Regarding your story on Canterbury Cathedral’s window facing collapse (News September 18), where can I buy that duct tape?
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Female drought
A full-page advertisement for the Thames Gateway Forum (BD September 18) lists speakers at a forthcoming meeting of the Forum in November
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OpinionAre small firms better placed to weather the downturn?
Clients prefer the personal touch of a smaller practice, says Brian Walters; while HOK’s Andrew Barraclough argues that they are too dependent on individual projects
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OpinionNotts bothered about second place
Academics at Nottingham University are complaining that Make’s Jubilee Campus only took second place in this year’s BD Carbuncle Cup.
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OpinionSmall comfort in hard times
The recession may technically be ending but practices — particularly the larger ones — will continue to feel the pain
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Joint effort to stop terrorism
BD’s sensationalist piece about the RIBA’s response to the Home Office on counterterrorism (News September 11) misses the whole point of a government consultation — as a good platform on which to submit recommendations and, if necessary, a challenging critique
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Wrong choice
I much admire Ellis Woodman’s writing but he is wrong (Leader September 11) regarding my frustration over the Glasgow School of Art competition
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Not just Scots
Supporting Scottish designers? How about just supporting good designers full stop
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Drawing comfort
Reading the review of the Tricorn Centre book (Culture September 18) reminded me how whenever my retired-architect Dad and I discuss such “second-tier” brutalist megastructures where the architect’s megalomania coalesced with the developer’s (or council’s) delusions of grandeur, he damns them acerbically thus: “I’ll bet it looked fantastic on the ...