More Opinion – Page 308
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Commonwealth: a duty to demolish
There is no viable future for the Commonwealth Institute. It should be demolished. Armchair aesthetes seem unaware of the raison-d'etre of the Commonwealth.
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Best is yet to come
Peter Carolin's arguments in favour of the demolition of the Commonwealth Institute (Opinion June 16) evade the issue which is upsetting conservationists and ought to alarm even those neutral about the building.
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Judging by my excitement and others' at the Rogers/Piano spectacle of herding sheep across the "wobbly" bridge, it was clear that we were "townies" and hadn't seen sheep alive at close quarters before. However, when I noticed the protestors, I started to think about the whole concept.
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Generation game
I have just visited Poundbury for the first time and let me assure Bryan Perry (Letters June 9) that I tried to look at it with an unprejudiced eye.
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Business as usual
You report (News June 9) that an unnamed DoH source and the man who is actually no longer responsible for the schools programme have "rejected" the RIBA's Smart PFI initiative. Small earthquake, not many dead, then.
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Living in the past
In Soapbox, June 16, Nick Johnson nearly makes a valid point, but he obviously has not been in this business long enough!
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Harlow promises
In Harlow North (News June 9), Ropemaker Properties has no specific target for self-comissioned housing - the calculation of 4,000 is entirely speculative.
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Ian Martin
LAB 06: The prospect of a metrosexual mardi-gras has Darcy reaching for the smelling salts
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Silly season campaign isn't the answer
Cabe's campaign focusing on bad design looks suspiciously like one of those ideas dreamt up to fill the airwaves between the health of Rooney's metatarsal and the Cameron charm offensive.
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Mediocrity is just not good enough
It seems churlish, I know, in this week of celebrating all things worthy - architecture, bikes and saving the planet - to come across all maudlin, but I am a Manc after all. And heaven knows, I'm miserable now.
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Self-build already a fine UK tradition
Self-build communities may very well thrive in continental Europe (Leader June 9) but they have a longer history in this country. We do not need to change our planning system to create more.
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Harlow, I love you
Harlow is not such an unlikely place to kick-start a housing revolution. It has a strong history of innovative housing and, indeed, town planning. It has to be acknowledged that not all of it has worked, but also that a great deal of it has, and still does!
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Listing laws
In your story on the Commonwealth Institute (News June 2), learned professionals, though not heritage experts, proclaimed the problems and defects with the institute building.
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Good, but not first
I was pleased to see that BD is continuing its interest in the international humanitarian agenda (News June 2).
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Breath of fresh air
What will be the next step in making homes airtight? (Solutions June 9). Prohibiting the use of opening windows presumably.
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What's in a name?
Phillip Seaward (Letters June 2) apparently wants the Arb to prosecute people outside the construction industry who use the title "architect".
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Corrections
Gareth Pearce has never worked for Rem Koolhaas or his practice OMA, as our report "Olympic Copyright Claim", (News May 19), stated.