More Opinion – Page 232
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Jilted John
To Northumbria, where the National Trust is campaigning to restore Seaton Delaval Hall.
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OpinionParker Morris needs updating
Three cheers for “Boris pledges to reinstate Parker Morris standards” (News June 27).
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Slow motion
The failure of International Union of Architects’ (UIA) representatives to propose a motion to censure Israel for breaches of its professional and ethical charter, and the country’s well documented flouting of international law is like Africa’s reluctance to criticise Mugabe.
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OpinionStirling scoops
Could David Chipperfield pull off a second Stirling win with his impeccably crafted gallery in Berlin?
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OpinionHodge plays philistine hand
By not listing Robin Hood Gardens, Margaret Hodge has betrayed the government’s prejudice against modern buildings and its contempt for architects
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OpinionHuman touch can revive social housing
As Robin Hood Gardens fails to win a reprieve, we must find ways to use ageing concrete estates
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OpinionCarbuncle queen
Former newsreader Anna Ford (pictured), who chaired this week’s London Architecture Festival debate on Prince Charles, was struggling to retain that famous objectivity, Boots was amused to see.
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OpinionWas Prince Charles right — is modern architecture still all stumps and carbuncles?
Most buildings are the creation of talentless people just doing their jobs, says Roger Scruton; but Alain de Botton warns of succumbing to kitsch nostalgia
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Directors cut it
Understandably, given recent events, the Architecture Foundation has hardly been inundated with applicants for the job of director, although Boots understands that the shortlist now includes the deputy head of a well known architecture school and the editor of a well known monthly magazine.
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Shakin’ all over
Proof that the London Festival of Architecture is reaching new heights of silliness were confirmed with the announcement that, for the first time ever, the sound of a jelly wobbling has been recorded especially for the event.
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Stepping out
It’s party time in the Kazakh steppe this Sunday. Nursultan Nazarbayev, the president of Kazakhstan, celebrates his 68th birthday and Astana, the capital city that he founded, turns 10.
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OpinionBrum libraries: a tale of neglect
I find Clive Dutton’s comments (News June 27) about the Birmingham Central Library building being “defective” rather rich.
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Letters of credit
I was pleased to see BD publish Richard MacCormac’s correspondence with the BBC (News June 20), but disappointed that your editorial was so negative about the principled line MacCormac took.
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Missing the bus
We agree with many of Deyan Sudjic and Lorraine Gamman’s points on the difficulty of designing a bus shelter (Debate June 20) — it is a surprisingly tough brief.
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Shorty shrift
I just don’t get you lot. You bang on about carbon-neutral this, and carbon footprint that, but when it comes to a sexy, decadent, wilful piece of unusable space, you can’t resist.
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Penalty point
As a student, I used to be admonished that a building’s purpose should be capable of interpretation from its appearance.
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Mistaken identity
BD is publishing letters from readers who are unhappy at the RIBA reportedly “picking fights” with Arb and the ACA. They do not like to see their institute appear quarrelsome or aggressive.
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Blistering attack
Robin Hood Gardens (Competition June 27) — 10 reasons to demolish it, more like. What a load of ludicrous “architecting”.
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Happy partner
BD’s story on the BRE innovation park (News June 27) could be incorrectly read to imply that English Partnerships is a critic of BRE.
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On the level
Your BRE story last week, illustrated with an image of Sheppard Robson’s Lighthouse, mentions that “it emerged that two of the prototype houses at the BRE’s Watford base, hailed as the future for zero-carbon development, had failed to meet the required construction standards”.