More Opinion – Page 216
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Sign of the times
The credit crunch seems to be taking its toll on that essential of the city practice — signage.
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Sticking plaster
Bernard Tschumi touched down at the RIBA this week to unveil his completed New Acropolis Museum in Athens.
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OpinionOpinion: Keep a cool head in the recession, don't rush overseas
Scrambling for work overseas might not be the best way for firms to ride out the recession, cautions Gensler’s Chris Johnson
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OpinionHere’s an idea on planning...
A host of architectural worthies has approved the planning bill’s stated ambition to prevent poor design (News November 21). Am I alone in seeing this as bound to fail? Rogers, Howarth and others ought to know better.
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OpinionA way out of the personal mobility hole
As ailing car firms seek bail-outs, it’s time for a radical rethink of transport
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OpinionShould councils have power to judge on design quality?
Should councils have power to judge on design quality? Yes, this is a long awaited breakthrough, says LibDem peer and campaigner Paul Tyler, but architect Jan Maciag is appalled.
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Round in circles
So local authorities are to have the power to turn down planning applications on the basis of poor design. In other words, planning officers and lay committees will decide what good design is.
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Power problem
Do architects really want planning authorities to have even more power to interfere with design? What is the relationship between this idea and the article on the following page of BD last week, “Architects strike out over New Forest rejections”?
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Don’t stop at CDM
I couldn’t agree more with Paul Morrell that we should dump the CDM regs (Opinion November 21). But I would go much further and dump the Health & Safety Executive as well.
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Snuggle up
Smashing! After the president’s missive (News November 14), I feel so relieved and very cosy.
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Ethical conflict
I suggest that the architects of last week’s featured Museum of Conflict in Libya contact your ethical agony aunt, Irena Bauman.
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OpinionWorld goes on
I did my part I year out in Eric Lyons’ office at the time World’s End was completing on site (BD Magazine November). Following the closure of Span, his studio was little more than one man and his dog. I was the dog.
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OpinionStrike a light
Paul Thompson’s appointment as the new rector of the Royal College of Art has been met with howls of protest from staff, Boots hears.
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Cultural desert
Seems OMA’s Reinier de Graaf is still smarting from his spat with Foster & Partners over similarities between their separate designs for sites in the UAE, reported in BD 18 months ago.
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Pigs are flying
Boots was surprised to see a new face at Arb’s board meeting last week. Had he come for the free coffee and muffins perhaps?
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OpinionRIBA is here for you, with a plan
Thank you for reporting my proposal that a national programme of energy upgrade of the existing housing stock would be a highly effective way to invest public money to mitigate the effects of the recession (News November 14). How strange then, to mislead your readers by suggesting this constitutes the ...
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OpinionHousing agency’s big moment
The Home & Communities Agency has some good ideas to help the market, but it needs to inject some fresh thinking into housing delivery
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Do what, Prasad?
It was with great interest that I opened BD last week, especially as it promised “vital advice on how to stay afloat” and “[the] president’s way out of the recession”... timely advice indeed — or so I thought!