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OpinionThe challenge for Oxford
Next month’s debate on architectural education must accept that professional boundaries are a thing of the past
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OpinionPie in the sky
Boots was intrigued to see a “well presented, split-level maisonette” for sale within the Robin Hood Gardens estate in Poplar — a snip at £239,950.
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OpinionA design folly sent to test our mettle
The textureless, bland, context-immune metal panel threatens to define our age
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OpinionIs The Public arts centre a waste of public money?
It’s not what West Bromwich needs and it’s not going to kickstart regeneration, says Tony Ward; while Sally Luton argues that it will provide a centre for innovation and creative expression
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OpinionOxford: address education costs
The Oxford Conference meets again on July 22-23 (News analysis June 6). Its title is 50 Years On — Resetting the Agenda for Architectural Education, but it completely overlooks the major issue facing education today: that of affordability.
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Cabe’s shame
Cabe’s response to the proposed Tesco scheme for the historic — and delightful — market town of Hadleigh is deeply depressing and casts doubt on the quango’s credibility.
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Parametric guilt
With reference to Peter Eisenman and Neil Spiller in Have computers damaged architects’ design quality? (Debate May 16) and the subsequent letters, it seems to me that the detractors of computer design are rather missing the point.
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Left speechless
I have spent much time trying to persuade Scottish architects that the RIBA has the ear of government. Your leader (May 30) suggests this is no longer the case.
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Mixed messages
So George Ferguson thinks the election figures could equally show that regional architects are “happy with the situation” rather than being disaffected (May 30)?
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Clarifications
In last week’s interview with Eric Parry, we mistakenly referred to the refusal of the second planning application. It was, as made clear elsewhere on the page, the first application that was refused.
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OpinionDot to dot results: June 6
The winner of last week’s competition was Mark Barry of Architype, Upper Twyford, who identified Mendelsohn and Chermayeff’s De la Warr Pavilion in Bexhill on Sea.
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Public unions
Adventurous architectural types looking for an unusual wedding venue need look no further than The Public, the controversial £55 million gallery in the West Midlands which finally opens it door next week.
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Badly briefed
In his Zaha Hadid profile in the the Economist’s quarterly style magazine, Jonathan Meades describes the architectural press as “little more than a deferential PR machine” for Zaha and her like. Ouch!
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OpinionOn thin ice
The Architecture Foundation is to leave trendy Clerkenwell for the more establishment surroundings of Somerset House, whose courtyard boasts a popular open-air ice rink in winter and fountains in summer.
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OpinionWe need to see Olympic projects
A visitors’ centre will open people’s eyes to what an incredible project we’re building
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OpinionGet off the couch and fight this blight
An insidious force is stalking the built environment in an effort to undermine architects
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OpinionDesign wobble
Update from Boots’ Jelly Watch team: an eclectic shortlist has been unveiled in the great Architectural Jelly Design Competition, part of the London Festival of Architecture.