More Opinion – Page 294
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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.
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Ministers must take a lead on quality too
This week’s Barker Review of Planning could mean big changes in the way architects and planners deal with development.
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OpinionIan Martin
Squeeze Commonwealth Institute into corner of bus station site, sell rest to Wetherspoons
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OpinionSpace is the key to better housing
There were two interesting articles around the themes of design in last week’s BD. The one proclaimed that “Design is at the heart of the Olympics” the other that “Design is compromised when Dutch housing experience is applied to the UK.”
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Avoiding the blobs
Jack Pringle, in the Guardian on December 1, revealed quite rightly his reservations about behemoth development contractors and their subordinated design staff bringing a greyness to an opportunity for infrastructure accompanying London’s Olympic Games. He cited the good old tested system of RIBA competition entries... but I’m not so sure ...
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Lost hospital
In Spotcheck North-west (News November 24) you describe an extension to Hope Street Hospital in Liverpool.
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Fond memories
I read with sadness of the death last month of Sam Stephenson, the celebrated Dublin architect.
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A good news week for Olympic design
Just when things were looking chronically bleak for those charged with delivering the London Olympics, this week has good news not just for architects, but for anyone who was worried the games would be a missed opportunity for the UK’s talented pool of designers.
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The first item on the agenda is How Can We Make The Olympics More Sexually Explicit For Mr Murdoch?
Monday. How to make the dreary Thames estuary a lively location for 120,000 new urbanists?
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OpinionWhy UK housing can’t just go Dutch
In creating South-east England’s growth areas to boost housing supply, the Department for Communities & Local Government, and previously the ODPM, encouraged the UK building industry to look to modern methods of construction and procurement. Within this, the Netherlands was cited as a precedent.
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Insurance should rest with the client
Your articles last week (News and News analysis) expose the fault line in the business of insurance in the building industry.
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Can RIBA redress?
The RIBA has been considering issues of consumer protection over the past year and how clients like Mr and Mrs Shaw (News analysis November 24) could best be served.
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Small risk
Your leader last week highlighted how very tiny a risk is presented to clients by small practices and sole architects with a low turnover.
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Bypassing Arb
There must be many who, like myself, can barely believe that Arb can charge so much for so little for its part I and II assessment.
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Reform’s school
Jee Eun Lee and John Assael (Letters November 24) have every right to be incensed at the cost of the Arb assessment process; £2,400 for a process directly comparable to that which the RIBA administers for £250 simply cannot be justified.
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Learning curve
Your report on earn-and-learn in architectural education (News November 24) omitted to say that the project is led by Schosa (Standing Conference of Heads of Schools of Architecture), is based at the Centre for Excellence in Professional Learning from the Workplace within the University of Westminster, and is partnered by ...
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OpinionUrban urgency
Your report on the postponement of our conference Society, Architects and Emerging Issues (News November 24) did not mention the new dates for the event which are March 17 to 21, 2007.
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OpinionKieran McClôd
My team comes up with Twát, which stands for Thoughtfulness, Wit, Architecture, Television.