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Opinion
Dread moment
Never let it be said that Birmingham City Council isn’t down with the kids. At the launch of its central library design competition, suited and booted council chiefs invited rapper Dreadlock Alien to present the benefits of the new project in musical form.
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OpinionContractors hold the aces
The strength of contractors is starting to control the building industry, and architects need to take note.
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OpinionBuildings are not just a pretty face
Architecture is about more than what a building looks like. Has anyone told our heritage bodies?
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OpinionIs a vertiplex the right way to regenerate Birmingham?
It will be a unique visitor attraction, says Charles Pettifer; it is ugly, ungainly and unsustainable, argues Joe Holyoak
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Bar starved
Someone should tell the RIBA that, when arranging a party, it’s always a good idea to ensure your guests can get a drink.
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Absent friends
The RIBA president Sunand Prasad felt he had to explain why some guests were missing on Saturday night including Tessa Blackstone, head of the RIBA Trust, which, as Boots has reported, was at the wedding of her son, Ben Evans, to Amanda Levete.
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Busy busy busy
You may think that Design for London’s high-powered advisory group had vital issues like the capital’s future direction to discuss, but it seems not.
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OpinionNot-so-Koolhaas
If, like Boots, you are a keen reader of the glamorous quarterly, Fantastic Man, you will have been particularly struck by the latest issue where Rem Koolhaas is profiled in one of the most hair-raisingly candid interviews with an architect ever committed to print.
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OpinionNew housing choices lacking
I endorse Margaret Hodge’s concerns that new housing is awful (News September 28).
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OpinionStyle counsel
It was disappointing to hear the presenter of this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize cite Nazi architecture when describing David Chipperfield Architects’ winning Museum of Modern Literature at Marbach am Neckar, Germany.
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Carbuncle Cup comments
Our Carbuncle Cup award drew a huge response. Here is a selection of your letters and comments
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OpinionHas the call for eco-towns been thought through?
While they depend on external infrastructure, these towns are little more than a marketing strategy, says Nick Rosen; but Bill Dunster thinks they could have wide holistic benefits
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OpinionTossing ideas about on urban morphology
Ian Martin reports from a conference ‘Be The Climate Change’, and looks at ways of surgically enhancing our metropolitan built environment.
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OpinionRubbish is good for Tutti Frutti
Matching the spirit of the Tutti Frutti competition (September 28), Chance de Silva’s submission was both playful and serious in that it intends to build the house from reused materials sourced locally.
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Off colour
Sunand Prasad (“Architecture schools too white in focus” News September 21) is correct, and your readers need look no further than your front cover rendering of Grimshaw’s Leningrad airport.
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Too buttoned up
I was interested to read your editorial comment on Sunand Prasad’s view that “ethnic minority students feel shut out”.
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Social security
What is most horrific about this new architectural trend of artificial islands is the line of thinking it advocates.
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Flushed out
In its unwavering support for Plastik Architects’ first public building (Works September 28), Gravesham Borough Council pursued an ambitious design and played a significant part in promoting strong architectural ideas, realised within tight fiscal constraints.