More Opinion – Page 215
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No question
Your interview with Roger Hawkins does not seem to answer the fundamental question as to why London’s squares need pedestrianising at all.
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Walled off
Herzog & de Meuron’s Tenerife Arts Space (bdonline November 5) is a site plan/masterplan for a vast area turned into an axonometric.
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Flexible friend
In my search for architectural work I followed the advice of David Gloster and others (Analysis October 24)
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OpinionDot to dot results: December 5
Last week’s competition winner was Dorota Kruk of Tempietto Architects, Hertfordshire, who identified Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral by Frederick Gibberd, aka Paddy’s Wigwam
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OpinionGoing nowhere on heritage
The government has shelved heritage protection for short-term gain, but the long-term costs will be substantial
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OpinionValues to save for Queen’s and country
What really counts in a building is its community role, and that’s worth fighting for
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OpinionIs now the time to bring back borough architects?
Yes, AOC director Vincent Lacovara, architecture must reingage with the nuts and bolts of planning; no, says John East, head of London planner Savills, we can’t go back to the past
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OpinionTraditionalists who do modern
Andrés Duany, he of the Congress for New Urbanism, rocks up in the UK to tell us where modernism went wrong just as the Saudis sit down with Norman and Zaha to discuss the remodelling of central Mecca
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OpinionWe’re still here in the boroughs
I had to permit myself a wry smile when reading last week’s leader on the borough architect.
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Design in context
Your limited sample of the views of the architects involved in early Building Schools for the Future projects (News November 28) did not really throw up any surprises for Partnerships for Schools — we have heard the comments before and are changing as the programme gathers pace.
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Dusting down
Mark Cotton (Letters November 28) need not be so pessimistic about the lack of a design opportunity with retrofitting projects.
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It’s a flyer
Richard Beastall hit the nail on the head in his succinct argument for a new “hub” airport in the Thames Estuary (Debate November 21).
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OpinionBack to the Spa
I would like to correct some points in your report on the Spa Green estate (News November 14).
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Don’t quote me
Architect Richard Reid’s report on why a new Tesco is needed in the Suffolk town of Hadleigh is prompting local outrage, Boots hears.
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Identity crisis
Just how prepared is the Homes & Communities Agency to tackle collapse of the UK housing market was spelt out in stark terms by its London director David Lunts at a meeting last week.
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OpinionNot safe yet
Among tributes paid to Palladio, whose 500th anniversary was celebrated this week at Portland Place, was one by RIBA drawings curator Charles Hind...