More Opinion – Page 237
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OpinionStaying power
Perhaps the question raised in your news story should be not so much: “Why are the Australians going home and leaving us in the lurch?” but rather: “Why are we reliant on Australians in the first place, and what can we do to encourage them to stay?”
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Yo, cobber
Strewth, mates, the blinkin’ Poms have only gone and sprung Canberra’s plans to make their country even more crook!
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Dot to dot results: 23 May 2008
The winner of last week’s competition was Eike Danz from Foster & Partners, who correctly identified the history faculty at Cambridge University by James Stirling.
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Stranger abroad
Foster & Partners’ Berlin office received an unexpected call recently from a confused English gentleman on a cycling holiday in southern Germany.
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Hue and cry
Writing about postwar housing in last week’s Regeneration & Renewal magazine, Urban Splash’s Nick Johnson said he “remained unmoved by the recent furore in architectural circles over Robin Hood Gardens”...
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OpinionClassic case
Boots hears that next month’s spanking new London Architecture Festival will be opened by mayor Boris Johnson. Bozza is certainly a catch but he will surely have to tone down his message.
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OpinionCast adrift
Tuesday’s private view of Psycho Buildings at the Hayward was notable for one thing: queues.
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Principled stand
Good to see that Arb isn’t shying away from the big issues of the day. On the agenda at last week’s board meeting: should Arb continue its historical policy of not using the RIBA’s headquarters for meetings?
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OpinionParty lines
Boots was surprised not to see Terence Conran’s business partner Des Gunewardena at the Conran summer party last week, although the two are now moving in opposite directions.
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OpinionThe trouble with Aussies
Australians may make good planners, but they don’t stick around to see a project through
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OpinionCounter culture
Margaret Hodge has listed two branches of Kennedy’s, the 140-year-old chain of butcher shops in south London, where she grew up, for their fashionable art deco features such as polished glass signs, granite stallrisers, sunburst transom lights, and original green and yellow tiled walls with marble counters, wooden cabinets and ...
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OpinionWe must break out of this prison cycle
Prisons don’t work — it’s been shown time and again. So why do we keep building them?
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OpinionCreativity is part of sustainability
Pooran Desai’s excellent contribution to your debate on sustainability (May 9) was concise and clear. Designing a building that requires minimum energy, water, and damage to the environment while giving maximum comfort and a more “natural” ambience is obviously creative. If journo-miserablist Austin Williams wants to attack the factors ...
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Contracts cost
Your coverage of the RIBA and ACA row over forms of contract (News May 9), makes some excellent points but fails to note the issue of cost.
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Master’s voice
Like Richard Rogers, I was “critted” by Peter Smithson at the AA in the fifties.
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Reference points
Three points in Ellis Woodman’s review of Corpus Christi’s new Taylor Library (Works May 16) need clarification.
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Dot to dot results: May 16
The winner of last week’s competition was Neil Green of Ainsley Gommon Architects, Flintshire, who identified Paul Rudolph’s Milam House in Jacksonville, Florida.
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OpinionHas EH bowed to political pressure on Robin Hood?
Commissioners feared the reaction if they supported listing says Catherine Croft, director of the Twentieth Century Society; no, this building just doesn’t make the grade, argues EH chairman Sandy Bruce-Lockhart
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Place in the sun
Despite BD's revelation that Norman Foster has moved to Switzerland, the architect and peer has been honoured at the patriotic Sun newspaper’s Britain’s Best 2008 awards, for “his ground-breaking designs around the world”.