More Opinion – Page 231
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PM’s questions
News that Boris Johnson is to reinstate Parker Morris housing space standards in London (News July 4) is welcome.
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No taste of honey
Did anyone catch the London Architecture Festival’s so-called “Royal Festival Hive” last weekend, Boots wonders?
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Terse verse
Following BD’s front page exclusive last week, diners at a fundraiser on Tuesday for the Save Shoreditch campaign were treated to a rip-roaring rallying cry of a ditty by East End bard Patrick Hughes.
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OpinionCalled to account
ODA chief executive David Higgins is rightly concerned with the bottom line, but surely his toast to the Worshipful Company of Chartered Architects’ dinner in the City of London last week went a little too far.
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Protest singer
The summer seems to have barely begun but already the silly season has arrived for national newspaper stories about architecture.
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Bootleg bikers
Straight after performing live at Architecture Rocks at London’s Bloomsbury Ballroom tonight (Friday), two of the Bootleg Lilos will load up drum kit and guitars to set off for their next gig at the Wickerman Festival in Dumfries & Galloway, where they’ll be warming up for Gary Newman and KT ...
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OpinionTowers set the test for Boris
Mayor Johnson’s reaction to the proposed high-rise cluster of towers in Shoreditch will give an early indication of his real vision for London
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OpinionWhat we can learn from Apple’s recipe
We’ll all happily adapt our behaviour for a portable gadget. Why not for buildings too?
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OpinionIs BSF transforming the standard of school design?
Yes, if education authorities have vision, says Robert Firth; not while delivery is through the private sector, counters Dominic Cullinan
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In the swing
Your report (News July 4) on the RIBA Trust/Intelligence2 Debate event which proposed “modern architecture is still all glass stumps are carbuncles” did not record the real point in the voting.
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Out of touch
RIBA president Sunand Prasad and the architectural elite, including BD, have again shown themselves to be out of touch with a significant proportion of the RIBA and Arb membership, as well as an overwhelming majority of the British public, in their continuing campaign to have Robin Hood Gardens listed (News ...
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Poor defence
BD’s increasingly frantic campaign to halt the demolition of Robin Hood Gardens does a disservice to the reputation of architects in the eyes of the public, which sees it as the archetypal 1960s ugly concrete monstrosity.
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Social contract
In a 1974 article in Architectural Design entitled The violent consumer, Alison Smithson queried the wisdom of basing socialist ideals on the values of the English middle class. Do we have a choice?
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Value added
I see this year’s crop of AA students have designed “Swoosh” to grace Bedford Square.
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Tell your story
Since St Christopher’s Hospice opened in Sydenham in 1967, more than 250 others have been established. Some claim the modern hospice is a new building type.
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Dot to dot results: July 4
Last week’s competition winner was Shelley Bruce of Vancouver, Canada, who identified Lawn Road Flats in Hampstead, north London, by Wells Coates and so receives a copy of Vanishing America: the End of Main Street by Michael Eastman.Dot to dot results: July 4
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OpinionDeath toll
The London Architecture Festival’s Greening Bays competition last week, organised by Ramboll Whitbybird, showcased 14 “intervention” designs for a parking space to provoke discussion on the space given up to motors in our cities.
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Howe’s that?
Boots may in the past have suggested that Sunand Prasad was less than forthright in his views, but never underestimate the quiet man of Portland Place.
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OpinionFrank speaking
Boots hears that, freshly flown in from sunny California, Frank Gehry was in no mood to make life easy at the press unveiling of his Serpentine pavilion.
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Chips is off
A new café developed by Jane Wood and Sophie Murray, respectively wife and daughter of LFA director Peter, opens in Littlehampton this month to much anticipation.