More Opinion – Page 248
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Scrub up nicely
Dobson’s Newcastle Central, Brunel’s Paddington, not to mention York, Darlington, Manchester Piccadilly, Liverpool Lime Street, London’s Waterloo, Liverpool Street & Victoria, Brighton, Bristol Temple Meads, Glasgow Queen Street, the threatened shed at London Bridge — I could go on — all capture the drama of arrival and power of the ...
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Flaws in strategy
The whole New Street project is fundamentally flawed because it only addresses passenger congestion at the station.
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Universal ethics
Now that the debate on ethics has opened up (News February 15), we wish to commend those architects whose courageous stand on such an issue has been expressed in your paper.
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Pops at China
Daniel Libeskind’s call for architects to take an “ethical stance” places him firmly with the oh-so-ethical Hollywood set, where having a pop at China seems to have become highly fashionable.
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Meet the Fokkers
Like Terry Farrell, I too have a Fokker DR1 model hanging over my desk in the office (Culture February 15).
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Dot to Dot: Answer 15 February
The winner of last week’s competition was Louis Hellman, who identified the Bauhaus building in Dessau by Walter Gropius.
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Escape pan
Fresh news has surfaced about Sandy Wilson’s masterplan for the Royal Academy, on which he was working before he died, and which has never seen the light of day.
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Lost in space
Word arrives that an advert has been posted on the DCMS website to recruit a suitable individual to carry out Cabe’s light-touch review.
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Built to last
Congratulation to English Heritage’s chief executive Simon Thurley, who wed Anna Keay, formerly a curator at Historic Royal Palaces, in the crypt of his Norfolk home at the weekend.
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Frozen music
Renzo Piano’s New York Times building is not only rat infested, it’s also freezing cold, according to online gossip site, Gawker.
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OpinionIs architecture one of the creative industries?
With the government set to unveil details of its creative economies programme on Friday, Ed Vaizey and William Kenealy debate whether architecture should be included
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Heralding the return of the new town
Architecture Foundation director Rowan Moore wonders what Gordon Brown’s eco-towns can learn from the post-war new towns
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OpinionStations’ magic ingredient
Making New Street exciting is an aim all our stations should aspire to, but Network Rail will need to hold its nerve
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OpinionEthics covers more than Israel
You publish two revealing letters (February 8) on the subject of ethics.
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OpinionMuddy boot
Boots is relieved to hear that Watkins Gray International’s Luciano Vitiello has survived unscathed after two hours stuck in a bog.
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OpinionAltered’s fate
I enjoyed the review of Fred Scott’s book On Altering Architecture (Culture February 8).
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OpinionStop and think before you hit the roof
Building on that wasted space at the top of the building sounds good... but is it?
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Squaring up
It is a pity that Richard Rogers found it necessary to intervene (News February 8) in the selection of the team to carry out the preliminary ideas for the part-pedestrianisation of Parliament Square.
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OpinionDoes the UK do enough to promote British design?
The government increasingly recognises the importance of communicating British design quality to the world, says Andrew Summers; hardly true, counters Frank Duffy, when the British Council has terminated its British architecture programme
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Disengaged
With reference to Rick Mather’s quote (News February 8), the next time I admire the view from my window or take the dogs for a walk, I must remind myself that what I’m really doing is “engaging with the landscape”.