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Substance will drive PM Brown’s agenda
New Year is supposedly about resolutions and looking forward. It’s also about marking anniversaries and looking back to see what’s been achieved. Ten years ago New Labour came to power with a list of promises — some fulfilled, some not — including a pledge to use PFI, despite its already ...
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OpinionMake a resolution to listen, learn and win
The best New Year’s resolution architects can make for 2007 is to learn to communicate. This may not be the first time — and it surely won’t be the last — where a case is made for more and better communication at all levels.
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Unmask the megalomaniacs
Your article “Barker planning advice offers work windfall” (News December 8) perpetuates two myths.
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OpinionFlying the flag
Thank you for your article “The cost of going global” (News December 15). I am delighted that BD is publicly championing sustainable architectural practice; a concern that Aedas Architects shares.
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Shaky ground
Your front page headline “The cost of going global” is a lame attempt by your publication to take the green moral high ground, which I would suggest is too poorly defined to allow you to take such a sanctimonious position on this particular topic.
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Minority issue
Why the gratuitous reference to the fact that Sunand Prasad was elected “the first RIBA president from an ethnic minority” (2006 Review December 15)? And anyway, surely Eric Lyons, president 1975-7, was also from from “an ethnic minority”?
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All for debate
In response to Steve Wolstenholme (Letters December 15), following the case of Peter White (who was in fact registered by Arb’s predecessor Arcuk) and his clients Jean and Christopher Shaw, I have indeed said that the architecture profession may wish to debate ways of improving consumer redress in 2007.
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OpinionPremature point
Your round-up of the year (December 15) although calling it a bad year for Frank Gehry, claims he got planning permission for his King Alfred development in November. Not true.
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On the waterfront
Your report (News December 15) implies that responsibility for the budget increase on the arena and conference centre scheme at Kings Waterfront, Liverpool, belongs to Wilkinson Eyre Architects. This is not the case.
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OpinionIan Martin
No one waits more than six months for an architectural icon, but in 1997 around 300,000 did at any one time.
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Green issues dominate this year and next
How will architects remember 2006? As the year when a member of the BNP stood for election as RIBA president, or when Sunand Prasad became the first non-white architect to succeed?
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OpinionObituaries
His approach to transport planning merged the reality of heavy traffic with the dream world of psychogeography
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OpinionGames need design, delivery and legacy
Commentators have written recently that it has been “a good couple of weeks” for design and the Olympics. Amid some of the negative headlines on this same issue this is good to hear, but I do fear that the debate over the design approach for Olympic venues is in danger ...
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OpinionDefining the profession
What is an architecture practice? For a publication such as this, the question verges on the absurd — but it is not simple to answer.
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Dump the dismal Collieston entries
The Collieston competition (BD December 8) should have been inspirational.
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Responsibility gap
Surely the saddest aspect of BD’s story of “rogue architect” Peter White and his let-down clients Jean and Christopher Shaw (News analysis November 24), was the absolute failure of Arb and the RIAS to properly police a registered architect who was also a convicted fraudster.
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Grasp the nettle
BD comes to my office each week and is well enjoyed by my American colleagues.
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OpinionBeyond a joke
What forces created the “prison camp-esque” Tranmere scheme in Merseyside? (Works December 1).
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Gazprom competition was no contest
Leaving aside Russia’s state gangster culture, where corruption, violence and vice flourish, its courting of iconic architecture to usher in an era of economic bling raises awkward questions for those involved in their creation.