More Opinion – Page 335
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Solving the housing crisis
Your issue of May 13 raises a variety of complex “solutions” to the housing crisis.
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Election on track
With one week to go, formal entries for the RIBA part-council elections were certainly looking thin (News May 13).
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The wrong culprit
It is hardly fair to accuse architects of a widespread ignorance of flood issues (Solutions May 6).
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Great inspiration
I was very moved by Ellis Woodman’s piece on Colin St John Wilson (News Analysis April 29).
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Make a difference
I was fascinated to read that Make hopes to become the first “carbon-neutral” practice (News May 6).
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Planning push
In response to “A web of illiteracy and officialdom” (News May 6), Hackney planning department has made great strides to improve service delivery.
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School daze
When I hear mention of the Smithsons’ Hunstanton School (Letters, May 6), I do not think of ground-breaking architecture.
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Im only here for a peer
The pashmina-enfolded lovely ahead of me drifts into Lord Hesketh’s vegetable patch and stops dead in her tracks
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OpinionSchool drive
The battle for more women in architecture begins in schools such as Putney High School for Girls.
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Wait for proof before judgment
We can only endorse George Ferguson’s proposal (News, May 6) to extend the period after completion that buildings can be entered for the Stirling Prize.
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Scottish traditions
I was encouraged by Mary Wrenn’s comment (Talkbox, May 6) regarding the need to make the traditions of Scottish architecture appeal to younger members of the profession.
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Ugly future
Sarah Wigglesworth’s Classroom of the Future may be packed full of interesting ideas, but it is unremittingly ugly, and misses a huge opportunity to teach children about architecture.
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Lammy springs hope, but you hold the key
Steadily and surely, the Labour Party is building a core of ministers switched on to the importance of the city and the built environment.
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We bring everything upon ourselves
Just as Mind (the National Association for Mental Health) is set to launch its Let off Steam Week, the Sunday Times announces “Get stressed, stay young – the new health advice”.
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OpinionConcrete Boots
Cheesy chipsDeveloper Urban Splash has gone the whole hog in a marketing push for Will Alsop’s chip-inspired flats in the New Islington scheme in Manchester. The promotional website, at www.chipsforsale.com, features an animation of Alsop with a white chip-shop hat lowering onto his head and the flats being doused in ...
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OpinionFrancesco Bandarin
Francesco Bandarin, director of Unesco World Heritage Sites, this week hosted a conference in Vienna to discuss proposed guide-lines designed to protect heritage sites, such as Liverpool, from iconic, high-rise development.