More Opinion – Page 253
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A different plan
Jeff Sowerby (Letters December 14, 2007) has a similar problem to that which exists in East Yorkshire, where the planning tail is beginning to wag the architecture dog.
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OpinionOver the hill
So the road tunnel under Stonehenge is to be scrapped (News December 14, 2007). Good!
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Warm response
The Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists was very pleased to read that Sunand Prasad in his presidential speech urged professionals to work together on tackling climate change.
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Runaway ideas
The government, flying in the face of the eco-lobby, has approved BAA’s plans for a third runway at Heathrow airport.
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Correction
Gremlins got into the letter from Zaha Hadid (Letters, December 14) and unfortunately turned the Architecture Foundation into the Architects Foundation. Apologies.
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OpinionFoxy feller
Readers with anything less than a steel-plated constitution are advised to avoid exposure to www.flickr.com/photos/malinfox which carries 162 photographs documenting the adventures of a toy fox as he is ferried around the world by his “handlers” — two middle-aged American gents who, Boots ventures, are not unfamiliar with the joys ...
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High minded
Aedas Architects’ top brains have been researching the heights and densities of new planning permissions in London but the conclusions are less than thrilling.
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Moral guardian
Architects, it seems, are at the back of the queue in saving us from global warming — at least in the Guardian’s eyes.
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OpinionCrystal clear
Does Norman Foster’s Crystal Island scheme in Moscow, already nicknamed “the teepee”, have its roots in Soviet era architecture, Boots wonders?
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OpinionYear ends as it began – almost
Eagerness to demolish Pimlico School, sits particularly poorly with the failure of new school designs to pass muster
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OpinionLet’s stop flogging this dead old horse
Christmas store displays pastiche the past, but the here and now of real life is better, for architecture
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OpinionDoes Unesco exert too much power over cities?
Unesco is a threat to communities’ democratic wishes, argues Robert Adam, while Colin Amery believes it is an essential voice of sanity
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The Producers
Israel’s Moshe Safdie was quick to defend his country earlier this year when British architects including Terry Farrell, Jack Pringle and Rick Mather criticised some of his compatriots for designing settlements that oppressed Palestinians.
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Winter warmer
“Foster & Partners is opening doors for homeless people this Christmas” reads an intriguing headline recently posted on the practice’s website.
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Pipped to post
Boots hears that David Morley is feeling hard done by after being scooped by Make for the London 2012 handball arena.
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OpinionLe rouge et le noir
As bizarre double acts go, last week’s Studio Egret West’s third anniversary party will take some beating.
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Off the wall
Mad professors take note: the government needs you to help make historic and architecturally significant buildings more energy-efficient.
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OpinionZaha: We dont need a partner
The competition for the Architects Foundation HQ (News December 7) was awarded to Zaha Hadid Architects in December 2004 on the basis of a simple brief for a naturally ventilated exhibitions building.
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Say it again
Yvette Cooper’s announcement that £200 million is to be spent over five years remaking the Thames Gateway is good news.