More Opinion – Page 263
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Justice served
As the Bovis Lend Lease design manager for Manchester Civil Justice Centre from October 2002 to August 2004, I find it very disappointing that for such a spectacular building you do not give adequate credit to the primary structure and make no mention at all of the primary facade works.
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OpinionBlue-sky thinking
I am puzzled by the reported championing by the mayor of London of the troubled Shard skyscraper (News September 21).
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HIPs out of joint
Richard Brindley (Practice September 21) gives an accurate account of how the HIPs are now fractured!
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Agenda bender
I am responding to your editorial (Tories seize the green agenda, September 14).
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Hitting the roof
It was intriguing to compare the measured elegance of the roof at St Pancras (Solutions, September 7) with, on the following pages, the contrived “architecture” of the Riverside Museum in Glasgow.
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Trees are green
I am concerned by the letter from Jun Huang (September 7) on timber as a construction material being less than “green”.
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OpinionDigging up some new relics of the past
Ian Martin is kept abreast of the latest archaeological finds
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OpinionBarking up the right tree
At last we have an architecture minister who is prepared to talk about architecture, and in her own constituency, too.
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OpinionCan architects help Sarkozy?
Sarkozy wants a built legacy, but are architects best placed to advise on what are often really political issues?
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OpinionGlory be to Gehry for dappled things
Hurrah for Frank Gehry’s IAC tower, which brings texture and variety to Manhattan’s rigid pattern
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OpinionCan supermarkets ever really be sustainable?
We are regenerating brownfield sites and cutting carbon emissions, says Asda’s Bob Simpson; it’s just greenwash, counters Bob Hayes
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OpinionGetting the lowdown on oligarchitecture
Unpleasant clients are great – they pay handsomely and on time, enthuses Ian Martin
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OpinionBSF: smart PFI is a distraction
Your piece on the Building Schools for the Future programme following the opening of the Bristol Brunel Academy (News analysis September 7) raises important issues about PFI and procurement.
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Public outcry
Is your front page story “Public feels powerless over design” (News September 14) really so shocking?
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Hard lessons
If Dan Kantorowich (Letters September 7) is right and the schools of architecture no longer teach construction, our profession is far deeper in the proverbial than most of us would think. I always thought construction detailing was integral to the design process!
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OpinionRussian revolt
I was one of those who took part in the march against the Gazprom tower design (News September 14).
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Title needs
Your correspondent (Practice September 7) asks if protection of title rather than function makes sense. The plain answer is no, despite Richard Brindley’s half-hearted attempt to defend the status quo.
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It’s cool
In your article on the reinstatement of St Pancras Station’s splendid glass roof (Solutions September 7), you quoted Alison Peterson Smith of Pascall & Watson as saying, “this amount of glazing far exceeds that allowed in new structures by modern regulations governing heat loss and energy efficiency”.
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Party poopers
The launch party for the London Design Festival at the Royal Festival Hall was perhaps a bit more champagne-fuelled than its sponsor, Moet & Chandon, might have liked.