More Opinion – Page 296
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Housing renewal needs quality control
Anyone who has struggled in assembling a Billy bookcase from their local Ikea may wonder what challenges await those brave enough to buy one of their prefabricated homes.
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Save our Olympics from disaste
In response to your editorial (November 3), I share your concerns and am growing increasingly despondent about the Olympics procurement process.
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Piqued practice?
Richard Saxon’s support of the RIBA Chartered Practice Scheme (Letters October 20) has no detail of what is on offer but tellingly finishes with the remark: “Chartered practice status will keep ‘them’ employable and attractive both to clients and to staff”.
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Like it or lump it
Johnny Holland (Letters October 27) raises the subject of so-called “flash architecture”.
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Zahas sculpture
It is difficult to judge Zaha Hadid’s cancer care centre (Works October 27) when the photographs lack people or any other sign of occupation.
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Entrance to Hades
Ellis Woodhead calls Zaha Hadid’s Maggie’s Centre in Fife “architecture of a very high order”.
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Skirting the issue
I am obliged to Will Hurst for telling us that Tessa Jowell was “dressed casually in a blue floral dress and fitted jacket,”
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Too much detail
BD seems to be following much of the rest of the magazine industry in its reliance on large images to fill pages when a smaller one with more informative and quality text would be far preferable.
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In this time of plenty stay true to quality
The medical profession is assured of a steady, largely predictable, and consistently growing workload. We all fall ill from time to time lucky medics.
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Lipton tip for top
Who is being lined up to take over as ODA chair from Jack Lemley, now he’s packed his bags and gone home?
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Fictitious foil
Architects aren’t just an arrogant lot, according to playwright Oren Safdie, whose satire on the profession opens this week (see Focus), they are also gullible.
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Method act
To give his actors an insight into the phsyche of your average megalomaniac architect, Safdie has taken them to the AA.
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OpinionPatience is key
As any architect knows, a good idea never grows old. And Julia Doveton knows this better than most.
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Wrong subject
Former Today hack Andrew Gilligan has found a new forte following his “dodgy dossier” furore.
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Jowell ducks 2012 design responsibility
From Nervi’s stadium for the Rome games to Isosaki’s for Barcelona, it’s hard to think of an Olympics where the architecture has not been commissioned by the host nation as a work of civic stature with international status.
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Emissions trading: can architects rise to the challenge?
Yes. They can manage about two hours with a toilet break
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Don’t be invisible — shout louder
Last week I was lucky enough to be invited to Venice as part of the RIBA annual conference, looking at architecture’s broader impact on both the environment and society.