More Opinion – Page 224
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OpinionWhat’s cooking?
Was it Brian Clarke, chairman of the Architecture Foundation, who came up with its next lecture series on the painter Francis Bacon, whose retrospective has just opened at Tate Britain?
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Happy families
Bonds between the Alsop and Clifford families can only get stronger, Boots feels, following news that Will Alsop is to restart work on the Mermaid Theatre redevelopment for Malory Clifford’s Blackfriars Investments.
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Mother of rows
Critics of the post-games plan for the Olympic park are pointing the finger at Design for London, which is responsible for the legacy scheme.
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OpinionPrepare to fight your corner
As recession looms, it is up to architects to ensure that planning consultants don’t take away more of their work
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OpinionWe need a starting point to get better
Cabe sets a standard for good school design, and one response from the architectural community — there is no such thing, of course, but it will do as a shorthand — is that the procurement process has to be sorted out before a quality standard can be adopted.
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OpinionShould architects be proud of the British Pavilion?
Yes, says John Tuomey, it is a serious show that considers the architect’s place in society; while Nigel Coates argues that by ignoring the brief, it is a missed opportunity
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OpinionHigh standards despite ratios
Architecture degrees leap in popularity (News September 5) revealed that the annual number of students studying architecture has jumped by 10,000 in four years.
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Not consulted
In response to ACA’s publication of its own appointment document (News September 5), Richard Brindley is quoted as being “disappointed” because “the ACA was extensively consulted in the initial development of the RIBA contracts”.
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The public’s plan
Saul Metzstein in his comments on Kevin McCloud & The Big Town Plan TV programme (Culture September 12) did not mention the role of the public in finding solutions to Castleford’s regeneration.
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Free range choice
Boundaries can either confine ideas and produce pedestrian work or can provide the impetus for tangential solutions and creative ideas. This is true both in schools and in the workplace.
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OpinionGood and bad
Wasn’t Barking town centre one of the examples Margaret Hodge chose (News Analysis March 20) to illustrate what she believes is good modern architecture as opposed to bad Robin Hood Gardens?
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OpinionSaarinen style
I feel I should correct Dennis Sharp’s piece on the American Embassy (Debate August 29) when he calls Eero Saarinen a “Finnish” architect. His father may have been, but Eero was an American when he competed for the embassy project.
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OpinionOh Callcutt!
John Calcutt’s view of architects is not flattering, as the architects who heard him speak in the British Pavilion on Saturday discovered.
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Brief exposure
More frayed tempers at Peter Murray’s dinner at Harry’s Dolce after a brave George Ferguson jumped to his feet and attempted to defend the British Pavilion as a “good exhibition if a little earnest”.
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Hairy Pollocks
John Callcutt is a man who likes to know what things are really worth, so walking around the Jackson Pollock exhibition in New York recently he set himself a task he told architects in Venice.
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OpinionCorrect on the classicists…
I am one of the few surviving from the Bartlett of the fifties — the last school of classical architecture in the apostolic tradition of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.