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Opinion
Beat class guilt
In a country where streets are used as an open rubbish bin, anything — be it the mayor’s 100 public spaces or the people’s 1,000 markets — is surely a step forward.
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OpinionBlog: The value conundrum
Nick Johnson has a Thought about the difference between green buildings and organic broccoli
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OpinionAction is better than words
Direct action by architects to help people into the profession would be more effective than another round of research.
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OpinionRaising a glass to English architecture
Now we’ve stopped making schoolchildren dance around maypoles and sing the Commonwealth countries in alphabetical order, what does Englishness mean? asks Ian Martin
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OpinionWinning design anticipates the future
Changing times challenge the architect as one who designs the stage on which we live our lives
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OpinionCan the RIBA stop this white male middle-class bias?
Yasmin Shariff says the RIBA is ideally placed to broaden architecture’s base, but Ferhan Azman argues that the answer lies in pay levels
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Happy chance
Alain de Botton will have a chance to put into practice what he preaches as a judge on this year’s Stirling Prize jury.
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Lunar tick
As if English Partnerships’ decision to reject designs by HTA and Alison Brooks Architects for its Campbell Park regeneration scheme in Milton Keynes wasn’t tough enough (News April 20), now the two practices must contend with the eagle eyes of one of our readers.
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OpinionTall story
A dream team of tall buildings from around the world has been brought together on a single island in a montage mocked up by the Financial Times for the front page of its relaunch issue this week.
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Love’s rocky road
A sparkling speech by Pat Mirrlees at Terry Farrell’s and Mei Xin’s wedding party at the Wallace Collection revealed her key role in not only bringing the happy couple together, but also in ensuring they didn’t split up.
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Cads in business
Speaking of affairs of the heart, architects are the new love rats, a current West End production suggests.
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OpinionUse, not design, counts in spaces
The assertion (News April 20) that the public wants space not style is just nonsense. I have no doubt that a commissioned survey could back up his claim, but then I have no doubt such a survey could back up a claim that most people believe the earth is flat ...
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The living city
Thank you for your thoughtful leader on public life and public space — often two very different and conflicting issues. There is much truth in the Demos/Rowntree report but there is also a real danger that we polarise this issue.
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Be specific, Arb
In the article about Arb’s “prescribed examination” (News April 13), you quote the registrar as indicating that Arb would not be in a position to outsource any of its other education roles because of the wording of the act, while “only on the prescribed exam is the wording more flexible”.
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Victoria values
Surely Land Securities’ willingness to lop 4m of one of KPF’s proposed twin towers and 24m of the other (News April 20) is little more than a classic developer’s ploy of throwing an excessive scheme into the ring and then make a big “concession” by scaling it back to something ...
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OpinionCold comfort
I thought we architects were supposed to be leading the industry forward in sustainable design. Yet Dow Jones’ refurbished house at Walberswick does not include a draught lobby.
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Let the arch lie
Network Rail does deserve a Euston Arch (Letters April 20) to mark its burial spot. The destruction of the Euston Arch was utterly deplorable and an act of mindless philistinism by British Railways.
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Beware ‘scoops’
A lot of us on this side of the architectural press have been biting our tongues at the deluge of nascent concepts by architectural “names” that increasingly adorn your pages. Last week’s front page was no exception.
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Be fair to the BBC
Some of the criticism of the BBC, Bovis Lend Lease, and the implied criticism of Sheppard Robson (Letters April 13), is not justified.
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OpinionGreat imposter
I was deeply offended by your back page reference last week to God “the Great Architect”.