More Opinion – Page 240
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Partners, please
Your report “Gateway needs single delivery body, say experts” (News April 25), completely misrepresents my views about the delivery of the Thames Gateway project.
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Great teamwork
Peter Wilson (Letters April 25) quotes Lord Fraser in support of your claim that the Scottish Parliament Team was dysfunctional and that this added to costs and delays.
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Liverpool cares
In your front page story “EH acts to save historic buildings in Liverpool” (News March 20), you write that English Heritage has “toughened its stance in recent months”, and that Liverpool has been “shamed into action”.
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Tesco's threat
Tesco may not yet match Wal-Mart in the US for trampling on community life in the cause of “retail rationalisation” but Jonathan Glancey (April 25) rightly highlights its persistent determination to ruin Hadleigh in Suffolk.
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OpinionWayne's a winner
Judging by April’s BD Magazine on housing, Wayne Hemingway’s mission to revitalise the design quality of new UK housing goes from strength to strength.
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OpinionDot to dot results: April 25
The winner of last week’s competition was Silvanos Goyea of BDP, Sheffield, who identified Villa Tugendhat in the Czech Republic by Mies van der Rohe.
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Not the Norm
Norman Foster’s tax arrangements, revealed in BD last week, have raised hackles in the profession, even those of former RIBA presidents, it seems.
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Snack happy
Perusing Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich’s plans turn the former Pakistan Embassy in Kensington into a palatial £150 million residence by classicist John Simpson Architects, Boots notes that as well as swimming pool, cinema, and eight bedrooms, it will have kitchenettes on the upper floors.
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Unsung heroes
If you’ve ever thought the page layout of BD reminiscent of architectural drawings, you’re in good company.
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OpinionIs bid-rigging intrinsic to PFI?
A procurement system meant to be more competitive appears to have engendered a whole new level of corruption
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OpinionParis sees RHG as a star exhibit
BD readers backing the Robin Hood Gardens campaign may be interested — but not surprised — to learn that while the minister for culture (sic) and Tower Hamlets’ Council are conspiring to demolish the Smithsons’ estate, in Paris it is now the star exhibit of a large retrospective show on ...
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OpinionSpeed freak
Congratulations to Ian Simpson who has become Britain’s first owner of the Alfa 8C Competition supercar, a beast of a motor which is “visually arresting from all angles”.
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OpinionOut of the loop
“Good” can also come out of the dodgy wording of the General Permitted Developments Order (“Mockery of the planning system” Letters April 18).
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OpinionTime for contractors to come clean
The industry cannot pick and choose on integrity in the wake of the OFT report
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OpinionTreasured chest
Finally, to underwear. Readers will recall course director Alison MacKinder’s challenge to students to design a highly supportive bra for her to wear on a 26-mile walk for breast cancer charities.
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OpinionAre the mayor’s new planning powers good for London?
Definitely, says Brian Waters of the London Planning & Development Forum, but design and conservation consultant Richard Coleman thinks it is a power too far.
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Drawing a line
Richard Brindley’s response to the question “Plan drawers are undermining us” (Practice April 3) just shows how out of touch the RIBA has become.
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Be transparent
Further to Renzo Piano’s comments on the RIBA/Home Office workshops (News April 18), it has been erroneously reported that these and guidance encourage the creation of no-go urban fortresses.