All Opinion articles – Page 67
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Clean streets
Daniel Moylan is right about the need to reduce street clutter. (Debate September 3)
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Schoolboy error
The problem with Michael Gove’s “wise men” who are reviewing the Department for Education’s capital spending programme is they are not construction professionals.
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Lead by example
Prince Charles’s Natural House is now expected to complete in early 2011 (News September 10).
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OpinionThorp's top 40
Well done, John (“Thorp retires from Leeds as last of city architects” News September 3) and carry on your good works for the city of Leeds
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OpinionHowells’ act of bravery
It’s about time schemes such as Glenn Howells Architects’ proposal for King’s Cross Central (News September 3) that are brave enough to use proportions and considered design thinking are given credit over the fashionable and icon- orientated dross the profession has churned out in recent years.
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It's all out there
Please tell Ed Hollis (“Living in the greatest show on earth” Opinion September 3), it’s OK
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OpinionThis winter it’s all going south
At least we know the swallows will be back, unlike the values embodied in our cities’ architect’s departments.
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OpinionDo architects have a problem with beauty?
Yael Reisner thinks architecture has only briefly engaged with aesthetics, while Piers Gough says all design involves the pursuit of beauty
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OpinionWill the prince crack the code?
His new book is the latest indication of Prince Charles’s ambition to take the lead in sustainable housing design
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Truth or dare
I’d often wondered what happened to those sad old bores that used to bang on about truth, grace, taste – and now I know that they’re alive and well and living in Kingston upon Thames
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OpinionThree meals a day with Foster
A profile of artist and chair of the Architecture Foundation Brian Clarke appeared in the Daily Telegraph this week under the perhaps fractionally over-egged headline “Brian Clarke: Rock Star of Stained Glass”.
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OpinionWelcome to the future of education
Michael Gove’s architect-free pledge leaves Tesco and Curry’s to guide us on school-building
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No inspiration
Those of us who objected to Argent’s slash and burn “regeneration” of the King’s Cross site knew there was a major risk that the land between the grade I stations would become a no-place, devoid of character
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Try real localism
Seeing as Michael Gove and the coalition government are allegedly so keen on decentralisation and giving power back to local authorities, he should allow each local authority the autonomy to decide how best to procure a new school building.
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Manchester wins
I doubt anyone in Leeds would question John Thorp’s endeavour as civic architect, and he has been a rare sane voice at Plans Panel, where design knowledge is scarce to say the least
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OpinionTime runs out for grotty housing
Persimmon, the housebuilder whose homes were among those scored as “very high risk” by Cabe, will not get any more taxpayers’ money.
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Living in the greatest show on earth
Edinburgh’s beauty is her chief economic resource, but when will the visitors all go home?
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OpinionAmnesia over housing policy
Ed Balls’ ideas for funding affordable homes suggest he has learnt little from New Labour’s failures
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OpinionBoris is brave to think bigger
Ignore the critics, London’s new housing design guide will mainly give us a size of home long enjoyed in western Europe
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Corrections: 13 August 2010
We have been asked to point out that the architects of the 1970 main museum extension to Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge were Leslie Martin and David Owers (News July 23).