More Opinion – Page 270
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How to stonewall
Of all the indignities suffered by architects, Boots imagines that fending off well meaning suggestions about how to improve the design of their buildings is one of the worst.
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Clapped out
Also at the town hall, though demonstrating rather less panache, was Stephan Reinke, managing partner of Woods Bagot, unsuccessfully trying to convince the meeting that his 100 West Cromwell Road tower development should get the green light.
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Out to launch
Despite the excitement over this week’s announcement of the Elephant & Castle scheme’s winning private sector partner, Boots could not help feeling that those present had their minds on the summer hols.
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OpinionJust ruminating
This unlikely sight at the AA’s “wet hair” pavilion is actually not a herd of mutant human-cows but a group from publisher Random House which caused widespread bemusement in central London while promoting its forthcoming children’s book series, Cows In Action.
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OpinionCreative thinking
Now that architects’ archives are commanding huge sums, those with something to sell are being urged to keep everything.
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OpinionLife begins for Milton Keynes
It’s the 40th anniversary of Milton Keynes, Britain’s best loved and most derided new town. To celebrate, next week is Milton Keynes week here on bdonline
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OpinionGive Liverpool best of both
I read the latest negative diatribe from Wayne Colquhoun of the Liverpool Preservation Trust (Letters July 20).
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OpinionGrim news has a silver lining
Reports on the pressures of families, careers and homes, and the wealth gap, are making a wet summer worse. Are we losing the plot?
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OpinionAs Ratso knew, good experience costs
Richard Serra’s triumphant retrospective is a lesson in how to win over the crowd
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OpinionShould old places win awards for good urbanism?
The Academy of Urbanism's awards celebrate great places that fire the imagination whether old or new, says its chair, John Thomson. But Richard Lavington thinks they read like a tame tourist board guide
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OpinionSummer books 2007: a further selection
Ian Martin takes another trawl through some of this year’s less obvious beach reads
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OpinionCash questions
Cabe chief executive Richard Simmons was unable to attend the Academy of Urbanism meeting this week on account of his extremely busy and important diary, but in an email to other academicians including Richard Rogers, Roger Madelin and Terry Farrell, he shares his thoughts on how Piers Gough’s resignation ended ...
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Double fun
Boots was surprised to see that rather than take at face value Cabe’s comments on Woods Bagot’s 100 West Cromwell Road tower, Kensington & Chelsea council hired an external design consultant to conduct an independent review “in view of Cabe’s ongoing objection to the scheme’s design”.
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Private lives
Anyone wanting to check which murky secret societies RIBA Council members belong to should hotfoot it to the library where, with a bit of arm twisting, a dossier of members’ interests is available.
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Crying shame
Arriving at Portcullis House, Westminster, for the launch of the RIBA’s Manifesto for Architecture last week, Boots was startled to find a group of performers of an advanced age, wearing only white bath towels, dancing to the music of South Pacific for an audience of civil servants.
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OpinionLiverpool really needs Unesco
I have just read the leader on London’s walkie talkie tower (July 13) and follow BD’s reports on Liverpool’s regeneration.
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Let judges judge
The riba Awards seem to satisfy nobody beyond those that have actually won one, and enrage and perplex almost everybody outside riba HQ.
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OpinionCracking up
Tony McIntyre’s review of the new house remodelling on Richmond Hill (Works July 6) was less than generous and bore no comparison to the house I visited earlier this year.
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Figure it out
Russel Hayden’s mathematical skills are shaky when he writes that Truro Cathedral is 200 years old (I Wish I’d Done That July 13).