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OpinionDot to dot results: August 15
The winner of last issue’s competition was Malcolm Hay of Worcestershire County Council Property Services, who identified Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion House in Wichita, Kansas.
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Feeling the pain
More than 5,000 experts congregated at Glasgow's Scottish Exhibition & Conference Centre last week for an event that can hardly have been the most cheerful in town.
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Language lesson
The Welsh School of Architecture is puffing out its chest after former student Bryony Shaw, who has put her degree on hold to concentrate on the sport, scooped a bronze medal in windsurfing at the Beijing Olympics last week.
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Trellick 2012
Still with the Olympics, fans of postwar British housing were given a treat during the London 2012 handover film at Beijing’s closing ceremony, with the surprise appearance of Erno Goldfinger’s Trellick Tower.
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Stony greeting
Those behind the UK’s new Supreme Court — the Middlesex Guildhall on Parliament Square — are grappling with the question of public art.
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OpinionShould Saarinen’s American Embassy building be listed?
Yes, says Docomomo’s Dennis Sharp, it’s well scaled and well weathered; no, says Westminster’s Robert Davis, it’s a mess inside, mediocre on the outside, and not historically important
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OpinionAn Olympic-sized mistake
Policy Exchange’s ideas on northern decline have a lot to say about prospects, but not a lot about people
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OpinionIs losing the bid now a better option?
Convoluted EU procurement rules are a circle of hell. Let’s junk them and start again
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OpinionShould architects ever offer to work for free?
Yes, it’s a long term investment, says Ben Addy of Moxon, but Ian Simpson believes it makes no business sense
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OpinionMcCloud: No chaos at Hab
I am writing to correct some of the points made in your news article and editorial about Hab Oakus LLP (News August 8).
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Max happy
In response to last week’s story on Hab (News August 8), Max Fordham Consulting Engineers would like to state that we remain wholeheartedly committed to the Hab project and its ongoing effort to deliver innovative and sustainable designs to improve the quality of housebuilding in the UK.
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Brains trust
How very sad that architecture’s own Eeyore has encountered construction (“Kevin McCloud’s own ‘grand design’ in chaos”, News August 8).
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Eating disorder
From Carolyn Steel’s opinion piece on August 1, it sounds as if she and housing minister Caroline Flint would strike a few sparks.
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Social contract
Saul Metzstein is spot on about the corrosive effects of the media casually linking postwar architecture and crime (Opinion August 8).
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Poor class
It’s all very well for BD to rave about the “pigeon fanciers’ hangout in Sheffield” (Class of 2008, August 8), but you won’t have to clear up the crap.
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OpinionGirls aloud please
Perhaps the announcement of Ruth Reed’s election victory came too late to push a slightly dull article — sorry, “scoop” — about Design for London’s final demise off the front page (August 1), but it deserves more than just a few inches on page five.
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Web of intrigue
Is a chink appearing in the corporate armour of Swiss architect Herzog & de Meuron?