More Opinion – Page 374
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Opinion
Pringle power
Your article on Jack Pringle (News March 19) demonstrates that he is the only candidate with the courage to commit himself to leading the RIBA in opposition to the most damaging attack on architectural values since the days of system building – PFI.While in opposition, Labour mouthed anodyne sophistries about ...
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OpinionWhy don't these Brits win YAYA?
It's the fourth year in a row a non-UK architect has won the Young Architect of the Year Award. Why are our bright young things losing out? Karen Glaser interviews young practices and some YAYA judges for answers
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The big conversation begins
John Prescott often says he is fed up of planners and architects failing to work together to deliver his beloved "wow factor" in Britain's buildings.
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Skylon revisited
"Skylon to rise once more" (News March 19) makes very welcome reading as it was a structure, as with so many others at the Festival of Britain, that inspired young architects at that time. It was my good fortune to work briefly with both Powell & Moya and Eric Brown, ...
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Cabe: no mystery
I would like to correct two misrepresentations in your coverage of the forthcoming audit of Cabe’s procedures for dealing with conflicts of interest (BD March 19). First, your leader referred to Cabe’s design review process as “mysterious”. Since Cabe started work in 1999, we have reviewed several hundred projects ...
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The full story
Your report, “Cabe chairman under scrutiny” (News March 19), suggests that “claims relate to glowing design reviews given by Cabe for a Stanhope scheme” and that “a rival scheme on the site… was given a poor review”. In this regard, you extract two highly selective quotes that do not ...
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Keeping mums
I fully endorse the sentiments of the writer of "Motherly Support" (Letters March 19). I am a female architect in her fifties with more than 30 years in the profession and am also the mother of two. The idea of Arb spending money on investigating why women are leaving the ...
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Yorkshire study
The extent to which your article, "Fund axe looms over Yorks Renaissance" (News March 5), misrepresents the purpose and the nature of our work for Yorkshire Forward is remarkable and distressing.Our study is entitled Streets, Space and Society: the role of the high street and its associated public spaces in ...
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Back to basics
In response to your article (News March 12), I have always considered Arb an irrelevance. Now it is just an expensive one.The Architects Act, which protects the term "architect", should be repealed. Some of the best architects I have worked with do not have any architectural qualifications. Some of the ...
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OpinionTechno seduction
New technology has led us architects into an insidious trap. The increasingly slick "special effects" made possible by replacing ink with electrons have made us more sophisticated and blasé in our expectations. But this has also had the same special effect on our clients and the plethora of project managers ...
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Halo slipping
Will Alsop’s vision to project a halo of light over Barnsley looks like being doused by storm clouds in the face of local opposition. The £500,000 halo idea, which is part of Alsop’s much-vaunted masterplan for the Yorkshire town, could be activated as early as next year. But some plain-speaking ...
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A cool sum
More evidence has come to light of the lavish fittings of the new Scottish Parliament building at Holyrood this week after the revelation that the 92 toilets in the building cost more than £30,000 a piece, a total of £2.9 million. The latest luxury to emerge in the building, which ...
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The show must go on
BD had trouble contacting Zaha Hadid to ask her about the Pritzker Prize this week. Her assistant said she wasn’t feeling well as she was too overwhelmed by all the media attention after the award was announced on Sunday. But Hadid managed to overcome her stage fright and fitted BD ...
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Price fight
Still with Hadid. Right-wing US magazine The New Republic heralded her as “an awful choice for the Pritzker” this week. In a controversial editorial, The New Republic says the choice is a “fatal debasement of an award purportedly about rewarding excellence, not political correctness or trendiness”. Well, you can’t please ...
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Changing rooms
Do you live in a crummy run-down semi-detached house in central London? If you do and can leave the house completely empty for six months, you could play host to famous sculptor Gregor Schneider. The Venice Biennale prize-winning sculptor is looking for two identical, vacant suburban homes to take over ...