More Opinion – Page 329
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Fallen gem
It was perhaps thought-provoking that in the issue that was justifiably filled with triumphant anticipation for the spectacular architecture of the Olympics;
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We need a leader
There is no doubt that we have the architects capable of designing the Olympic development, but now we need a co-ordinator of the calibre of Hugh Casson, who was so successful in getting everyone to work together on the 1951 Festival of Britain exhibition.
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Bath is bubbling
I was distinctly unimpressed by Thom Gorst’s review of the sixth-year work at the University of Bath (Culture July 8).
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Show letdown
I contributed a short review in your student shows piece on the assumption that you would do a full round-up of all our schools.
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Happy campers
What is Bill Gething on about? Center Parcs is at best only a model for itself and at worst traffic segregation at its most extreme; the very thing he argues against.
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Saving homes
I am writing to correct your article “Prince Charles backs Pathfinder bulldozers” (News July 15). It incorrectly states that the Enquiry By Design report by the Prince’s Foundation calls for the demolition of 225 homes in Nelson, East Lancashire.
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Number crunching
In response to Stan Beanland (Letters July 15), staff costs are not the same as salaries.
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OpinionCan we resist an icon Olympics?
The contest to design venues for 2012 must be intellectually curious as well as commercially competitive. Koolhaas, Chipperfield and Zaera Polo have set the pace
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2012 race is the golden opportunity
It already seems a world away, but the euphoria of last week’s decision to hand London the right to host the 2012 Olympics, will resonate through architecture in this country and beyond for the next decade.
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OpinionConcrete Boots
Pushy femaleMeeting UIA presidential candidate Louise Cox, Boots was keen to confirm reports that the feisty Australian was the only woman ever to have been thrown off a building site for swearing. “It’s not true,” she says disappointingly, before saving the day by adding: “But I was nearly pushed off ...
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Ian Martin
Activists dressed as millworkers will lobby to protect historic houses, having left their children at home dosed with laudanum
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OpinionNow let the young compete in 2012
The Olympics are a fantastic opportunity for architecture. The benefits to young athletes were specifically mentioned in the bid — but what about the emerging generation of young architects?
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Level playing field
It is disturbing to read in BD of suggestions that deals are already being done between Stuart Lipton and the London Development Agency for building Olympic homes (News July 1 and July 8).
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Lost cause
I felt that I was witnessing an architectural crit circa 1970 at the Cabe public design review of Levitt Bernstein’s NEV theatre in Shrewsbury at the Royal College of Surgeons (News Analysis July 8).
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OpinionA bigger idea
I admire the way Adam Caruso nailed the current unsustainable “ideas deficit” in his essay (Analysis June 17).
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A commonsense solution to PFI debacle
When officials from Gordon Brown’s office attended a recent RIBA seminar on possible reforms to the Private Finance Initiative, they were reported to be rather pleased not to find the assembled architects pouting, shrugging and generally in a nasty sulk about life.