More Opinion – Page 285
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Drain brain
BD’s revelations last week of plans by the Olympic Delivery Authority to emulate the great Victorian engineer Joseph Bazalgette, were timely indeed.
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OpinionOn the waterfront
The film On the Waterfront concerns the role of waterside culture in defining cultural relations in port cities.
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No leg to stand on
What a shame that Alison Carr is defending Arb’s mistakes of the past instead of proactively correcting its actions for the future (Letters March 23).
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Arb must reform
I have read the letter from Arb’s registrar and chief executive Alison Carr. It was before her time, but if she checks the number of votes gained by the architects in the Arb Reform Group she will see that they secured about 70%, including my vote — hardly “a handful ...
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Titles tell all
In not saying what sort of engineers have signed the lack of respect e-petition last week, Boots rather reinforces the point that they are making. Presumably they are consultants of some kind.
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OpinionRighteous writes
Adding to the debate “Do local campaigners have too much power?” (March 16), I want to cite a current example.
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Local triumph
Your readers may like to know that, since I last wrote (March 23), our council has rejected the application to which I referred.
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OpinionAnonymous Architecture
UEL Masters student Theo Honohan explores the inconsistency in architects' desire for anonymity in his latest posting for Student Space
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OpinionAmbition is key to Olympics
The ODA needs to deliver on its design rhetoric if the Olympics are to match our confident structures of the past
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OpinionAre architecture exhibitions a waste of space?
As the Tate reveals plans to hold major architecture exhibitions every two years, Rob Wilson and Victoria Thornton disagree about whether such shows can ever live up to their promise
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Say cheese
Among the amateur paparazzi at Tom Bloxham’s party in the dead cool Bubble House last week was Cabe chief executive Richard Simmons, who spent a large part of the evening snapping pictures of the house on his mobile.
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In the family way
Congratulations to Dominic Papa of Studio 333 who becomes a member of Cabe’s design review panel – a panel which is actually bigger than Cabe was when it launched eight years ago.
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Wrath of God
As the campaign against two proposed KPF towers in Victoria gathers steam, there’s more worrying news for Land Securities.
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Name shame
Protection of title may be an ongoing issue for architects but spare a thought for engineers, who have no such protection.
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Victoria is the next battle
London’s skyline is hot property. In open defiance of local planning policy Land Securities and KPF have proposed two mega-towers at Victoria.
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Misplaced loyalty
Alison Carr’s letter on Arb (March 16) presents a defence of the indefensible. Loyalty is of course a virtue, but just how loyal the new registrar should be to her recent predecessors must be examined carefully for several reasons.
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OpinionRude gesture
I found your story “Academies pay price for ‘architectural gestures’” (March 2) highly misleading.