More Opinion – Page 221
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OpinionA bright side to dark times
Rather than give in to the economic gloom, architects can shape up for the future
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OpinionHousing needs a total rethink
With the recession and a construction slowdown, we have the opportunity to pause and reflect on our ability to build homes to meet future needs (Debate October 10).
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Standard bearer
I qualified in 1956 and ever since I can remember, architects have been in despair over the standards of design of our housing stock.
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Back to honesty
Now we all know that we’ve been living a dream as opposed to living the dream since the turn of the century, maybe it’s an opportune time for architecture to exorcise its own ghosts of the recent past?
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Doom street
“Pot calling the kettle black” is the phrase that springs to mind when Iain Tuckett, group director of Coin Street Community Builders, levels criticism at the willingness of English Heritage to consider legal action over Doon Street (News October 3) and the expense this necessarily involves.
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Street wise
The £18 million Parliament Square scheme (Letters October 10) is dwarfed by the £30 million to be squandered at Kensington & Chelsea on pedestrianising Exhibition Road.
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Make it clear
I was disturbed to read about another supposed eco-house (News October 3) which seems to disregard environmental considerations with a totally clear four-storey glazed facade.
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OpinionDot to dot results: October 10
The winner of last week’s competition was Amanda de Lussey of Faulkner Browns’ Newcastle office, who identified Fumihiko Maki’s Spiral House in Tokyo.
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After fort
Finally, big congratulations to Ken Shuttleworth and Clare Dexter, the ever-helpful press officer at HOK International, on the occasion of their marriage.
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OpinionTowers as old as building itself
Towers have been around for thousands of years. Which means we can certainly critique the current batch
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OpinionTough times need ingenuity
The housing and architecture ministers are taking the reins at a testing moment
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OpinionA green New Deal can tackle depression
Looming financial disaster might have unexpected social and environmental benefits
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OpinionOur carbuncles are too common
Amanda Baillieu observes that the architecture most people still get in their towns is, to paraphrase her inelegantly, crap (Leader October 3).
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Overthrow Arb
Architects have fallen under the heel and dictatorship of Arb, which is a government quango, the majority of its members being non-architects.
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Critical eye
It was a pleasure to read that William Curtis (Letters September 26) regards Oscar Niemeyer as “a major figure of Latin American and world architecture”.
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Victorian values
Your survey of the legacy of past periods of housing (Front page October 3) provides some important lessons.
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OpinionExpensive & dull
If a brief were given to design the most boring and expensive public square, the recent proposal for Parliament Square would surely have been the result.