More Opinion – Page 193
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OpinionDo Prince Charles's views represent the people?
About as much as Louis XIV’s did, argues Kate Macintosh; while Robert Bargery counters that he echoes the voice of Middle England
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Opinion"Remote" Stirling connection
The RIBA’s claim that there is “a remote connection” between Stirling judge Stephen Bates and Tony Fretton, tipped to win this year’s prize, seems a little bit of an understatement if you read Ellis Woodman’s interview with the former in a Sergison Bates monograph for 2G
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OpinionRogers failed to put the case
In his letter on Chelsea Barracks (July 17) Richard Rogers says: “There has been a steady flow of misinformation about Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners’ approach to the design”
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OpinionA second bite at the cherry
Chelsea Barracks’ developer seems determined not to repeat the mistakes of the ill-fated Rogers Stirk Harbour masterplan
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Data processing
Your article on the number of black teachers in architecture schools (News July 31) presents a misleading picture of diversity in architecture as both a career and an academic discipline
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OpinionDubai? I can’t do Stevenage
I can’t help feeling that cities that grow all too quickly out of imperial decrees, government diktats, or desert sands are rarely successful
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OpinionLiverpool views
Liverpool One may not have impressed Hans van der Heijden (Boots July 31) but, unlike his work for a puerile housing scheme in Birkenhead and indeed the immensely disappointing Bluecoat Chambers scheme, the “masterplan” is very popular here in Liverpool
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Past and present
I am of course sorry that the British Museum has been frustrated in its expansion plans, which may well be badly needed (News July 31)
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Glut of standards
The main problem with the size of new homes (bdonline June 11) is the range of standards being applied
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Working holiday
I loved the little bit in your leader (July 24) advising architects to resolve the company’s problems before going on holiday
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OpinionModernism sells better with frocks
Coco Before Chanel reminds us why we rarely see architecture on the big screen
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OpinionShould bad architecture be named and shamed?
Fat’s Sean Griffiths says that by denouncing bad buildings quality will improve, but Anna Liu argues this is a dangerous vehicle for biased criticism
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Rich pickings at the RIBA
Leafing through the RIBA’s report and accounts for 2008, Boots’ eye was drawn to a section marked “staff costs”
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OpinionCapturing the end of an era
Only a small part of Bill Mitchell’s article is correct (Opinion July 24). The Kodachrome process was largely unknown in England until the late 1940s — most of the first colour images of England were taken by American servicemen or by expensive fashion magazines
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Carbon baloney
I think both architects and the specialist media are still paying lip service to the carbon-neutral issue. You need to get your act together if you are serious about this
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OpinionShould we love or hate fascist buildings?
We condemn buildings built by fascists because of their political history rather than their architectural worth
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OpinionTrue vision
David Nixon’s article (News Analysis July 17) is not only well informed and relevant, but inserts a recent and precious vision of the future by Jan Kaplicky
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Tipping point
The contrast between BD articles “Adjaye brought to brink of insolvency” and “Gimme shelter” (News & Works July 24) could hardly have illustrated better the tipping point between the old world and the new order at which architecture finds itself