More Opinion – Page 324
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When in Roma...
With reference to your editorial in BD 16 September, the sensibility of Italian architecture is firmly rooted in its sense of place. Perhaps the greatest exponent and exporter of this is the Renzo Piano Building Workshop. It at least acknowledges context, local/regional tradition, culture, environment and climate. Sadly the globalisation ...
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Hate mail to Gehry
Many of us in Brighton are hopeful that Piers Gough will take his own advice: “If I were you I would immediately cancel your job, get very poor and then get a Frank Gehry [affordable] flat” at the King Alfred site in Hove (News, 16 September). We would then at ...
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PII hike hurts
The hike in the minimum level of PII being considered by Arb will hand more commissions for small domestic work to the under-qualified and unqualified.
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Skewed priorities
Not only is Arb constantly seeking to expand its powers to control the way architects go about their legitimate business, it is failing to fulfil one of its two statutory duties — protection of title.
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Get it right...
Further to your article “Arb plans double cost hike” (News, 16 September), in relation to PII levels I told your reporter what Arb planned to do was to look at all the information and then make a decision. That’s what it did. No increase was planned, as your headline reported, ...
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House style
You report that the “country house” clause of PPS7 is about to be tested(News, September 16).
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Story of structure
With reference to Ellis Woodman (Soapbox, 16 September), it is study of structure that links architectural history to design, but neither is structure much taught in schools of architecture. Gropius’s “inner logic” did not always extend to his construction but the restored Bauhaus curtainwall lives on as his structural and ...
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The RIBA has failed us as a guardian
It is the latest sorry instalment in the story of this country’s refusal to properly guard the archives of our greatest architects.
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Why architecture can sell London
London has some of the most iconic buildings and public sites in the world. Big Ben, the Houses of Parliament and Trafalgar Square are landmarks that have come to represent not just the capital, but Britain itself in the eyes of many visitors.
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Shipwrecked?
There is more to the Little Britain yachting event, sponsored by BD, than just sailing. After a day on the waves it is always nice to relax over a light ale or two in the evening. But you have to be careful you don’t go too far or you might ...
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Rock grateness
New indie hot shots The Mystery Jets, who released the single You Can’t Fool Me Dennis this week, have an architect among their ranks. Guitarist Henry Harrison is an architect and runs a designer fireplace outfit called The Platonic Fireplace Company. The NME describes their music as “a prog space ...
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House proud
Open House Day is a lovely, brilliant thing that should never be taken for granted. The event is genuinely popular and for at least one day a year people across the capital take an interest in architecture. This year Boots visited James Stirling and James Gowan’s seminal 1950s flats on ...
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Demolition man
Film director Ken Loach is a man with a mission. If he had unlimited funds he would demolish “all the post-war centres and out-of-town shopping malls” in England, he told the Guardian. He would then replace them with “town centres on a human scale”. Who would of thought class crusader ...
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Pedalling ideas
Curious mental image #1: Richard Rogers pedalling furiously on his exercise bike while talking to BD on his mobile phone about national housing policy. The man is a legend.
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No fixing it for Bob
Bob the Builder is not popular among BD readers. One reader wrote to us saying that he was “hopping mad” over a recent episode which portrayed an architect as “uncaring and unsympathetic”. So when we received a press release inviting us to promote a Bob the Builder Drive and Build ...
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OpinionJanet Stree-Pooter
This week’s diary is by Janet Stree-Pooter — social commentator, television personality and champion of all architecture that’s not boring.
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Italy clips the wings of UK jet-set crew
Are we seeing the first signs of a concerted rebellion against the trend of “kerosene architecture”?
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Ian Martin
Propose new architectural theory of Retardant Nebulism, and get in the new-look Guardian
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Teach buildings, not Bauhaus
As you read this, tutors in architecture schools across the country will be honing their unit programmes in preparation for the new academic year.
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OpinionThrough on a nod
Piers Gough was in typically robust form in Brighton this week for the launch of the redesigned Frank Gehry scheme in Hove.