More Opinion – Page 297
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OpinionCancer is challenge enough, Zaha
Like, I am sure, all too many of BD’s readers I have had several family members and friends who have faced life-threatening cancer. In dealing with this disease members of my family have benefited enormously from the level of care, compassion, useful information and good cheer offered at Richard Murphy’s ...
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Stress factors
Am I alone in wondering if the sycophantic admiration for Zaha’s new creation is missing some vital points?
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Inside view
I am lost in admiration for the wonderful sculptural building Hadid has created in Kirkcaldy and for the fact that she and others designing for the same trust have given their services for free. I hope the Maggie’s Centres will find the finance to develop and build the further four ...
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Fit for purpose?
The new cancer centre by Zaha Hadid certainly seems a most imaginative piece of sculpture, but I wonder whether, as a building for restorative care, it will it be up to the job?
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Going up not down
There is no truth in the implied quote — MacCormac: practice “in freefall” (News October 20).
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Not black or white
Regarding your report on diversity in the profession (News October 27), to me, the true position lies across both points of view, that of Richard Rogers and Sunand Prasad.
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North south divide
I much appreciate the way BD tries to promote the interests of women in architecture.
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Arb niggles, but bigger issues lie ahead
Should architects be up in arms that the annual retention fee — the pompous name for the cost of being a member of Arb — has gone up by £1.50? It is not much but some feel the increase is not only unnecessary but also legally questionable.
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Ian Martin
My friend Tub Haagendas calls, and we put our heads together to design a second planet
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OpinionBreak free of World Heritage tyranny
If a two-level planning system wasn’t hard enough, we now a have third level — and it’s global.
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Good riddance to flash architecture
Thank heavens that John Prevc of Make, the Elephant & Castle masterplanner, has had the sanity to reject the Alsop consortium’s “flash architecture” in preference for “considerate and well-planned regeneration” (News October 20).
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Poor image
I don’t know how I might feel, had I the misfortune to be the author of either of the two projects featured on the front page of BD (October 20).
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Arsenal let-down
The assumption that we were not involved in the Lough Road design-and-build housing scheme is correct (Carbuncle Awards October 13).
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Down the tube
While welcoming Tim O’Toole’s pledge to return London Underground to the glory days of Frank Pick (News October 6) with stations as distinctive as churches, he seems only to be interested in the new if my local tube station, Arsenal, is anything to go by.
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Street life
I welcome BD’s interest in London’s bus infrastructure and its recognition of the role Transport for London plays in the city’s design heritage (News September 29).
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Mistaken identity
It was nice to see a photo of Leonard Mannaseh’s kindly face in BD (October 20), even if the caption did say it was of Jim Cadbury Brown.