More Opinion – Page 337
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Off to a bad start
The introduction to your article on St Paul’s, Deptford (Works April 15) was a misleading and depressing start to what was otherwise a decent and balanced article. The impression conveyed is that no one at the church wanted the project to go ahead; that no one was pleased when it ...
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Fast learner
It’s a nice reward to be regarded as an architect after three or four years’ hard labour getting a first degree, but is it actually possible to be registered in less than seven years, or is Matt Murphy a prodigy? (News Analysis April 22). l Our apologies. Matt Murphy is ...
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Concrete Boots
Little & Large showWhen you meet famous people in real life they are often a lot shorter than you expected. The camera lens seems to favour short people with large heads, like Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman. This picture of Grand Designs presenter Kevin McCloud with US landscape architect Martha ...
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Ian Martin
Another chart shows the key marginal constituencies. Not just architects, but zookeepers, viola players and nuns
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Green Ken trumps the government
London mayor Ken Livingstone’s dream of transforming the capital’s buildings into a model of sustainability is tantalising.
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Soapbox: Endless contests wont solve housing
It should be a dream position for specialist housing architects.
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OpinionMike Nightingale
Mike Nightingale of Nightingale Associates has seen bidding for two major PFI projects collapse in the past five months.
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OpinionLessons for Longbridge
The imminent closure of MG Rover’s Longbridge plant will create a huge challenge for those working on the regeneration of the area, writes Christoph Elsaesser.
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Taking a stand against PII cheats
I support Arb’s stand against the architects who blatantly decided that they did not require professional indemnity insurance or could not afford it (News April 15. They do the profession no service.
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Fools rush in
Grave disappointment awaited Le Tatlin when, on unveiling his plan for the “Monument to Third International”, he realised there wasn’t enough steel in Russia to build it.
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Asbo on Alsop
The flashy attention-grabbing exploits of Will Alsop’s office contrast sharply with the powerful simplicity of the London Eye, to which the Shanghai Kiss was compared.
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Housing hope
Nothing but truth in your heartfelt lament about the quality of new housing developments (News Analysis April 15).
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Labour blameless
As I read your interesting article, I imagined that those who approved the Trinity Mead housing scheme, which you rightly lambasted, were all Labour councillors.
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No to Nuclear
It comes as a shock that David King advocates a new generation of nuclear power generators (Solutions April 15).
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Time for Tea
How reassuring that design issues are to be placed “centre stage” in Liverpool (News April 8). The initiatives outlined are very welcome, if not a little overdue.
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Tale of two firms
Your article credits my practice as designer of the Dickens theme park (Spotcheck April 15).
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Northern light
I refer to the East of England Regional Assembly’s drive to realise the housing ambitions of the the deputy prime minister, regardless of the wishes of local councils and communities.
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OpinionConcrete Boots
Mad for windowsOne of the great things about democracy, besides the riveting general election, is the fact that anyone is entitled write to planning committees to comment on any scheme. One letter of complaint to West Dorset planners about a new scheme in Prince Charles’s Poundbury village is a fantastic ...
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Ian Martin
Strict vagrancy bylaws mean that poor Dorothy can’t stay overnight in the gated community of Munchkinland…
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Singing my home town blues
How many practices does it take to design a housing development? If you live in Southwark, the answer is 16. If you live in Stratford-upon-Avon, the answer is none. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. Given I was born and brought up in Stratford, I think I’ll cry.