More Opinion – Page 255
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Piers pressure
As a retired conservation officer and history teacher, I disagree strongly with Piers Gough’s arrogant assertion that English Heritage should only deal with the past.
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Just a minute
Is “just 113 design reviews” (News November 30) enough for A&DS to “alter the status quo” in Scotland?
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Going for Gold
Comments from bdonline on the court order that a developer must rebuild an illegally demolished Erno Goldfinger house (News November 30)
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Bare necessities
Hackney Council may have laid blame for many of the problems at Clissold Leisure Centre at the door of architect Stephen Hodder, but there are some things for which he just can’t take the rap.
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Penny drops
Fears over Norman Foster’s “penny whistle” tower, planned for the leafy London suburb of Ealing, are getting rather out of control, it seems.
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Rock on, Arnold
International banker Luqman Arnold is going head-to-head with Richard Branson in a bid to save Northern Rock.
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It's all just nuts
Architects had better stop carping about low pay if the latest data from trade union GMB are to be believed.
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Invisible touch
Cabe is still waiting to be bathed in the harsh spotlight of government scrutiny.
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OpinionFinally, the correct version of Tamworth
In his final hop round the multiverses, Ian Martin briefly visits a Midlands utopia
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OpinionGateway reaches crisis point
Cash, Farrell and positive noises are great, but they cannot hide the fact that the Thames Gateway is in meltdown
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OpinionThis is the plan: every man for himself
When you get up close to it, the planning process is revealed as a chaotic, counter-productive sham
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OpinionIs the Thames Gateway project a busted flush?
Architect Eelco Hooftman says yes, and that the project should be about restructuring a landscape in a dynamic floodplain. But Space Craft’s Cody Gaynor disagrees
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OpinionIconic Pimlico must be saved
As a former governor of Pimlico School, I was interested to read about its impending demolition (News November 23).
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Battle goes on
The Pimlico battle continues, especially as demolition and the production of materials for newbuild both add to global warming.
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Number puzzle
When I resigned in May 2007 as English Heritage’s chief conseration architect and head of profession, I was able to identify 28 architects working for EH in various capacities of a total of 1,937 full-time equivalent employees (EH annual report 2006/07).
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Still on track
Piers Gough has raised a long-standing question about the roles of English Heritage and Cabe (News November 16).
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Poor illumination
Bill Mitchell quotes Leon Botstein on leaks at MIT’s Stata Center (Opinion November 16) as saying: “hiring Gehry to design a building was no more risky than hiring Albert Einstein to teach physics”.
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OpinionScots missed
Just to put the record right, Deyan Sudjic, Ricky Burdett and myself, the only architects on the jury for the BBC Scotland HQ (BD Magazine, Offices, November), soon came to the conclusion that the proposal by David Chipperfield was the best.
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OpinionStreet cred
I am pleased I am not the only person in Hackney who objects to the seriously misnamed Streetscene Improvements being spread like a layer of hazardous waste all over the borough.
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