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OpinionCapital idea
Shouldn’t your magazine be re-named “London Interiors” (with a token provincial scheme thrown in as a guilt trip)?Paul Gregory, Liverpool
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A lot of hot air?
It would be useful to know from people like Nicky Gavron (Soapbox September 15) who are in the position of instituting policy with regards to carbon emissions, whether or not they have any idea if their proposals will work.
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Making a splash
I write as a former councillor in the London Borough of Camden, about a local building, Kentish Town Baths.
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Suburban lessons for Thames Gateway
What should we make of John Rouse’s outburst that the suburbs are where we would all really want to live if only we had the choice? Admitting you live in suburbia is not unlike confessing to enjoying boating holidays on the Norfolk Broads — actually quite pleasant but not at ...
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OpinionIan Martin
John Reid is called something unprintable, though architects will recognise it as a synonym for planner
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OpinionReligious buildings needn’t be divisive
In the current political climate you might have noticed a certain hysteria associated with all things Islamic.
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Undiverse views on diversity
I attended the Stephen Lawrence lecture Ground Zero: Does Diversity Matter? and listened to Richard Rogers and Sunand Prasad talk in agreement on the subject of race and opportunity, so I was surprised when you reported the opposite last week.
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Tackling ‘evil’
Your article “Arb failed to prevent ‘evil architect’ errors” last week invites clarification, in wider and specific context.
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OpinionRings a bell
Reading Ellis Woodman’s account of Foster’s Kazakhstan Palace of Peace & Accord last week I was reminded of a passage in George Orwell’s 1984: “The ministry of truth — minitrue in Newspeak — was startlingly different from any other object in sight. It was a enormous pyramidal structure of glittering ...
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Pyramid selling
Foster’s accepted the commission to design the Palace of Peace & Accord because it felt the “pyramid form enjoyed a convincing relationship to the programme”.
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Sheffield united
The focus of the Venice Biennale was cities and the British Council’s commitment to exploring regional issues was responded to innovatively and passionately by Sheffield with its Echo City exhibition.
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Timber fire fallout
In her article “Timber row turns incendiary” (BD September 8), Ellen Bennett refers to a 1983 World in Action documentary “that highlighted the dangers of timber frames”.
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Design panels need some new faces
Each week, it seems, another commission or panel is set up to advise on the fraught issue of design.
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OpinionIan Martin
I point out that the facade of the Jogging Aunt pub has been painstakingly copied from the John O’Gaunt
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AUU did not give East an easy ride
Your article “Design jobs for the boys?” (News Analysis September 15) misrepresents and miscontextualises my comments.