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Chipping in
CZWG Architects has joined jelly-mould specialist Bompass & Parr on its latest design-led food caper.
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OpinionSilly season
Are the idle August days going to architects’ heads? First Boots hears reports that 5th Studio has been hanging about at Walthamstow dog track, scoffing chips and trying to win a bob or two.
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Knives are out
Meanwhile, Alsop’s latest designs in the Far East — a sales office for Raffles City and a shopping mall in Beijing — are causing a stir, and not in a good way.
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OpinionThe future of the skyscraper?
New York-based eVolo Architecture has published a book on the future of the skyscraper, presenting the best 60 projects arising from an ideas competition the firm has been running annually since 2006.
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So unfair it’s all based on flair
I graduated about seven years ago, and from day one we had been taught the basics of important areas of construction and theoretical design.
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Waking the dead
Sue Roaf makes reference to the Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists and comments made at the Oxford Conference (Letters August 1).
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Planning to fail
In response to Phil Kirby’s defence of planning services (Debate August 1), most applications are not dealt with by elected representatives but farmed out to the “private sector” in the form of paid planning officers making decisions under delegated powers.
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Planning blight
As chair of the Association of Consultant Architects’ planning group, ACA president Brian Waters has asked me to clarify his Debate piece (August 1).
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OpinionLukewarm Bath
The Bath eco-home by ZedFactory (First Look August 1) comes with all the low-energy bells and whistles one should be seen with, but can a 700sq m family home really be called sustainable?
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Bad education
As Noel Farrer says, landscape quality is not embedded in the employer’s requirements before the contract is let (News August 1).
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Power of prayer
The apparent difficulty in finding a viable use for Battersea Power Station might be solved by resurrecting my 1990 scheme for a Metropolitan Mosque.
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Tackle turnout
Congratulations to Ruth Reed for becoming the first woman president of the RIBA.
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OpinionDot to dot results: August 1
Last week’s winner was Heather Roockley of Gelder & Kitchen in Richmond, Yorkshire, who identified Le Corbusier’s Unité D’Habitation.
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OpinionWe need to talk about Kevin
Kevin McCloud is right to want to raise the standard of housebuilding, but first he must learn how to be a good developer
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OpinionBashing Bishop
Architects are deeply worried about the future for architecture in the capital with the absorbing of Design for London into the London Development Agency.
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OpinionWhen the fall guy is a very tall guy
As soon as a crime’s gone down, the TV cameras turn on an innocent tower block...
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OpinionAre architecture students facing a fragile jobs market?
Yes, says Portsmouth School of Architecture’s Pam Cole, we’re heading out of the comfort zone of the past few years; no, says Flacq director Marcus Lee, it’s just a question of persistence
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Loan arranger
These hard-up times must be affecting Mecanoo, the practice that scooped the new Birmingham library project on Tuesday
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Gardens salad
Despite locking horns over the future of Robin Hood Gardens, Boots was intrigued to hear that 20th century architecture champion Alan Powers and English Heritage supremo Simon Thurley enjoyed a spot of supper together this week.