More Opinion – Page 257
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Chunnel vision
The adoring press that has greeted the new St Pancras might be about to turn.
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Word to the wise
Designing the Scottish Poetry Library and the Scottish Storytelling Centre seems to have had an adverse affect on Malcolm Fraser’s way with words — if comments on his recent piece in the Sunday Herald are anything to go by.
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OpinionA day trip to swinging post-war Britain
Ian Martin finds the multiverse in chaos after some ill-advised internet posting
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OpinionSecurity’s wider meaning
In the current security climate, the architect’s role is to dispel the feeling of living in a fortress
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OpinionMIT vs Gehry puts the papers in a spin
What is the truth behind the media brouhaha over MIT’s legal spat with Frank Gehry?
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OpinionMadin’s library is world-class
Clive Dutton, Birmingham’s director of planning and regeneration, described John Madin’s existing prize-winning 1972 Central Library (News October 19) as “a concrete monstrosity” and then, equally misinformed, rules out a competition for the design of a replacement on grounds of cost and time, giving figures of cost 10 times, and ...
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Homes on target
It is wrong to suggest the BRE eco-homes have failed their final build test (News November 9).
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Supply claim
Peter Phillips (Letters November 9) makes a reasonable suggestion when he commends the urgent introduction of more sensible housing space standards for the open market.
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OpinionFirm plans
Paul Morrell (Opinion November 2) implies that business restructuring in the professions is a source of embarrassment for those who do it. I disagree.
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Olympic winner
Sorry, BD, but does not the new Olympic stadium (News November 9) represent something of a coup?
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Less is more
The Olympic stadium design does not deserve the brickbats; it is an elegantly economical solution to a very tricky brief.
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Fat's chance
Your front page story (News November 2) suggests that a number of practices, including Fat, may be being deliberately excluded from appointments involving Design for London.
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OpinionAll left behind
Peter Cook has made peace with Claude Parent, 40 years after the French architect was heckled by students at an Archigram conference in Folkstone.
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Past imperfect
The only person who has not run out of superlatives to praise the new St Pancras station is its chief architect Alistair Lansley, who provided some of the most gripping moments in the BBC’s fly-on-the-wall documentary which began this week.
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Home truths
Launching his vision for Croydon on Tuesday evening, Will Alsop was keen to stress his personal links with the London borough.
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Smoked out
Alarm bells were ringing in BD Towers on Monday when it was discovered that plumes of black smoke darkening the City skies were coming from the Olympic Park.
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Panel games
What has become of the RIBA’s radical plans for a design review panel to advise the president on major buildings?
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OpinionOlympics — let me hear you say ‘Yay’!
Ian Martin’s away, so Olympics Minister Suzi Towel guests, sharing her thoughts about the all-important London Games mascot — possibly a newt
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OpinionWhose fault is it Gummer?
The BRE are cynical manipulators of the Code for Sustainable Homes, but Gummer made them that way says Ian Abley
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OpinionStadium disappoints all round
Far from being innovative and ground-breaking as claimed, the Olympic stadium is unsustainable and bad value for money