More Opinion – Page 230
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OpinionWhy nothing’s as simple as it seems
What do the US gun lobby and Buckminster Fuller have in common?
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OpinionIdentity crisis
Jacques Herzog may be one of the world’s most famous architects, but Tate Modern press officers are struggling to recognise him.
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OpinionDo we care who wins this year’s Stirling Prize?
Of course, it’s important, says double winner and Wilkinson Eyre director Chris Wilkinson, but Mantownhuman’s Alistair Donald laments the conformism the prize represents
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OpinionSkills for BSF schools are here
“Architects blamed for unsustainable schools” shouts your headline (News July 18)
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Brutal truth
Lurking beneath Celia Clarke’s plea to reuse buildings (Letters July 18) was yet another cry for more respect for sixties buildings by exponents such as Gillespie Kidd & Coia, Owen Luder, Chalk Herron and others whose raw concrete aesthetic set up a public distaste for we architects.
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Concrete division
Anne Power (Opinion July 4) gives a clear, intelligent summary of the issues surrounding post-war public housing — thought-provoking and so relevant!
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Unkind words
Further to your leader (July 18) on RMJM’s £1 million support package to encourage more youngsters from black and ethnic minorities into architecture, the statistic that only 2% of practising architects in Britain are non-white is a shocking indictment of our industry and possibly makes it the last bastion of ...
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Cunning plan
In the light of the RIBA report on planning, is it time to run a regular feature on planning nightmares — nominate your worst local planning authority and so on.
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Broken greens
While it is encouraging to see the industry delivering more sustainable buildings, confusion exists over how green building credentials are rated.
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Spitting shame
The British summer put paid to the al fresco supper planned for the opening of Gehry’s pavilion at the Serpentine last week.
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Marathon man
The Victorian Society hopes to make a splash with its campaign to highlight the remaining 13 working and listed Victorian and Edwardian swimming pools in England.
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Party politics
Boots is putting on her dancing shoes next Saturday and heading for Birmingham’s Botanical Gardens to join staff and students, past and present, from the city’s architecture school in celebrating its centenary year
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OpinionIs Banksy a better role model?
RMJM’s offer of £1 million to help turn street graffiti artists into architects is well meant and generous, but is it really helpful?
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OpinionThings to ponder on the sun lounger
HMSO can offer some different holiday reading, but its plot lines and endings will let you down
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OpinionShould the Skylon be rebuilt 60 years after the original?
Yes, it was an important and beautiful icon says Jack Pringle, but writer and blogger Owen Hatherley says the politics are all wrong
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OpinionBlame it on the Arts Council
Ellis Woodman’s review of The Public in West Bromwich (Works July 4) fails to appreciate the main aspiration of the project: digital art and art in general as a catalyst for economic, urban and cultural regeneration.
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Us and them
Abe Hayeem (Letters July 11) would have liked the UIA to “censure” the Israel Institute of Architects at Turin, drawing odious comparisons with Mugabe.
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OpinionUnfit objection
In 2004 English Heritage failed to list to list the much missed Tricorn Centre in Portsmouth, designed in 1962 by the Owen Luder Partnership, using the same “not fit for purpose” argument as it employed on Robin Hood Gardens (News July 4).