More Opinion – Page 226
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Great Lakes
The Wordsworth Trust Centre may be the only modern building in Cumbria to grace your pages, (Works August 29) but it isn’t unique.
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OpinionTakes the biscuit
Do you have a Pedants’ Corner? The red double-decker bus in the Olympics closing ceremony was not a “trusty Routemaster” (Leader August 29) — if only! It was one of that latter-day variety classifiable as “biscuit tin”.
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Planning bypass
The planning process has become so lengthy, complicated and bureaucratic that unscrupulous developers have found an effective method of obtaining planning permissions. They simply ignore the planning system.
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Much to learn
Both Robert McGinnes (Letters August 8) and A Marsden (Letters 29) are slightly missing the point.
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OpinionWearing well
I can’t believe that was me in July 1978, sitting next to Sam Webb and Clare Frankl at the RIBA Liverpool conference (Archive August 29).
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OpinionDot to dot results: August 29
Last week’s competition winner was John G Ellis of Urban Design Solomon ETC in San Francisco, who identified Louis Kahn's Kimbell Art Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas.
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OpinionThe real truth is: you are where you eat
Last week’s ‘fat map’ of Britain set a challenge for architects and planners
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OpinionAre architecture schools turning into factory farms?
The uniform teaching programme of many schools will create “tasteless chickens”, says Tim Ronalds; while Richard Hayward argues that schools remain almost entirely free-range
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The secrets out
Well, blow me down! Now that English Heritage has to look again at its decision over Robin Hood Gardens, evidence has emerged that its boss, Simon Thurley, has never liked the building.
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Still singing
Norman Lamont must be relieved to no longer hold the keys to the Exchequer, what with the storms battering the current chancellor.
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Public private
Boots has been keeping watch on the Public, the arts centre in West Bromwich designed by Will Alsop which has yet to receive a paying visitor!
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OpinionPlease ditch the mudslinging
Don’t let this autumn’s Le Corbusier and Palladio shows be used to settle old scores
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OpinionBathing machine
Swimming hats off to Ian Dungavell, whose epic swim in every listed Edwardian and Victorian pool in Britain — one length for each year they’ve been open — is to end today at Dulwich Leisure Centre.
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OpinionSo, who do we think we are?
London’s contribution to Beijing’s closing ceremony gave a confusing message
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OpinionManhattan receives a special delivery
Five suburban houses in a New York parking lot can show us the future of prefabrication
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OpinionDon’t judge the RIBA awards
The RIBA awards are the most robust and rigorously judged in architecture.
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A tip for Kevin
From BD’s front page (News August 8), we find the lure of television used as another way to get architects to work “at risk” (for free).
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An open mind
Robert McGinnes (Letters August 8), you are correct — in only some of what you say.
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OpinionClosed memorial
It is rather surprising that the Royal Parks, which ran the design team competition for the 7/7 memorial, has accepted a design which one can “wander through” (News August 8).
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Model students
Interesting to see Robert Aish migrating to Autodesk from Bentley, where he started GC parametric modelling, I believe (Practice: IT August 15).