More Opinion – Page 204
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OpinionMetal gurus
Mecanoo claims on its website that the facade of the proposed Birmingham Library (News April 3) is a “delicate metal filigree, inspired by the rich and proud history of this former industrial city with a tradition of craftsmanship”.
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Into the light
Maybe Bill Mitchell (Opinion April 3) needs to get his compact fluorescent lightbulbs from somewhere other than his local supermarket?
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OpinionChanging gear
How busted am I? I knew that photograph (Archive April 3) would come back to haunt me.
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OpinionBattle lines draw at the Bartlett
Both the Bartlett and the RIBA are in the hunt to fill top posts, while could Mecanoo’s Birmingham Library proposals prove as controversial as Jan Kaplicky’s for Prague?
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OpinionPrince is back for seconds
Sustainability is likely to be the target of Prince Charles’s RIBA speech next month, but architects can’t expect an easy ride
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OpinionMake more of the year out
The latest call from the Association of Consultant Architects to “relax work experience rules” (News March 20) came as no surprise. As a part I student myself, I strongly feel that what needs to be altered is not the necessity of a year out, which to my mind is indubitably ...
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RIBA: get real
I have followed your raging debate about Arb and the RIBA. I even wrote to the minister two years ago, imploring her to resist the RIBA’s efforts to take over Arb’s functions, and I made sure that I didn’t vote for a Reform Group candidate
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Suburb hubbub
I am an architect, and a resident of Hampstead Garden Suburb. Boots (March 27) might like to know that there was a presentation by Hopkins on March 24, some nine months too late, without a single three-dimensional drawing to show the new blocks from Central Square or the flanking roads ...
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Fount of wisdom
Last Sunday, I cycled past Centre Point and was saddened to see the pool and fountains dry and hoarded-off, ready for demolition
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Ode to joy
Thank you, Jonathan Glancey, for bringing up a worthwhile but neglected issue (Whatever happened to craft? March 27)
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Computer craft
Like it or not, computers are here to stay (Whatever happened to craft? March 27), so the issue is how computing-based design can achieve a more sensual quality rather than a default abandonment of how architecture has been practiced for the past two decades or so.
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OpinionWren's template for austerity
Tough times don’t necessarily mean inferior architecture. Just look at what Wren produced for the City of London on a shoestring
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Correction
In last week’s front page story (“Lifeline for arts projects”) Haworth Tompkins and director Steve Tompkins were incorrectly spelt as Tomkins
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OpinionThe shining: a modern horror story
The new wave of energy-efficient lightbulbs is enough to bring out the axeman in anyone
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OpinionShould the RIBA introduce a register for conservation architects?
Yes, says Purcell Miller Tritton’s Jeremy Blake, because architects need professional benchmarks as much as any other group; no, says Stirling Prize winner Stephen Hodder, we need communities of knowledge, not individual registrations
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OpinionSeventies wallpaper makes a comeback in Birmingham
Why bother hiring a world-class architect to design your new library when you can simply cover a few very large boxes with a classic wallpaper design from the seventies?
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OpinionArts face recession’s wrath
A funding crisis should not be allowed to derail projects from which we all have much to gain
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OpinionHeterodox on Hereford House
In its de-listing of Colin St John Wilson’s Hereford House (News February 20), the DCMS has gravely misjudged the building’s significance — it is important as his first work in the private sphere, following his noteworthy contributions at London County Council