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Opinion
Life under Labour. How is it for you?
Has Labour been good for architecture or for practice?
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OpinionConcrete Boots
Floored by falconsEveryone who has ever got off a train in Manchester and walked down Piccadilly will be familiar with the gloomy sight of Sunley Tower, home to the Government Office of the North West. Happily, developer Bruntwood has drawn up plans for a £20 million transformation, by Manchester architect ...
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Ian Martin
BOOK SPECIAL:10 spring titles for the discriminating reader to leave on the passenger seat
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Liverpool set on higher purpose
One of the reasons that Liverpool architecture and design standards are so poor is that public expectations, perception and experience of quality modern design are very limited (News April 8).
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Question time
Do my eyes deceive me, or does Charles Kennedy’s pledge to “end central government involvement for local planning appeals” (News Analysis April 8) amount to scrapping the existing appeals system?
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Dont be so sure
I share Chris Shirley-Smith’s concern about the relationship landscape architects have with our architect siblings (Letters April 8).
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Canterbury wail
I was dismayed to read of the possible closure of Canterbury School of Architecture (News April 8).
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Arbs a fair cop
I would be grateful if I might make a correction to the report on recent professional conduct cases (News March 24).
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Market politics
I haven’t always seen eye to eye with Terry Wyatt (Soapbox April 8), but on the question of the government’s backtracking on the Energy Performance of Buildings, I’m with him all the way.
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Planners hot date
With the government’s pressure on local planning authorities to achieve a high percentage of decision-making within the 56-day statutory period, what now can be seen is a growing trend for approvals appearing to be backdated and then posted first class, often arriving next day, but up to eight days after ...
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OpinionJulia Peyton-Jones
Serpentine director Julia Peyton-Jones, the force behind the gallery’s summer pavilion programme, gives the RIBA Trust lecture next week.
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OpinionOur prefab failures
Can architects design prefab housing? Yes, of course they can, writes Colin Davies.
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OpinionNot a drill
Architects spend a lot of time talking about the failings of the education system — perhaps because they spend so much time in it, writes Ellen Bennett.
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Stalling on crucial climate legislation
A rumour, running rife through property and construction, is that the government is stalling on a key measure that would be crucial in combating climate change.
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OpinionConcrete Boots
Spaghetti loopyCharles Jencks and Melvyn Bragg’s double act on the South Bank Show was a moment to savour. The wordy duo took a walk around Jencks’s Garden of Cosmic Speculation. Sitting on the garden’s black hole terrace, Jencks’s observations included “you’re spaghettified when you enter a black hole” and, climbing ...
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Ian Martin
As we meander our way through coffee and biscuits, lunch, high tea, cocktails and dinner, the standard improves
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Clear language needs clear goals
Esther Kurland stops short of making a convincing case for architects to use plain English (Soapbox April 1).