All Opinion articles – Page 70
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OpinionA vision of virtual bliss
The obituary of Bill Mitchell and the iPad review were interestingly juxtaposed in last week’s BD
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Battle lines
Congratulations to Stephen Taylor/Brockmann Stierlin on their competition success for a Zurich housing project (News June 18) but surely no points for presentation.
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Seen it all before
I had to smile at the article on Save Britain’s Heritage’s report on transforming empty Victorian terraces into sustainable housing
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FeaturesDot to dot results: June 18 2010
The winner of last week’s competition was Nina Oortman of FAP Architects in London, who identified Le Corbusier’s Swiss Pavilion in Paris
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OpinionTake a gander at the Goldhawk Road
Less is definitely more at this year’s London Festival of Architecture
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OpinionCurse of the stones
English Heritage must feel that Stonehenge is cursed after its latest plan to build a visitor centre ended in failure yesterday. The £25 million scheme may be the most modest yet, but that didn’t save it from being cut as the part of the government’s austerity drive.
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Learning process
The question of whether money has been wasted on school design work (Debate June 11) is not so clear cut. The Building Schools for the Future process has its pros and its cons.
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A head of steam
Owen Hatherley is right to bemoan the basic, utilitarian character of the new structures on the revived East London Line (Works June 11), but, although he tells us he lives in south-east London, he writes with all the myopia of the north Londoner who thinks that civilisation only exists where ...
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Let’s focus on improvement
As the Treasury anticipates efficiency measures which will inevitably impact on capital expenditure in construction, it may like to have a mind to the effect Building Schools for the Future (Debate June 11) has had on maintenance regimes within the secondary school sector.
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Garden of Edam
Terry Brown’s comment (Letters June 11) on my article about Dutch-style intensive farming (Opinion June 4) misunderstands my point, which is that if we insist on cheap food and start to grow more of it in Britain, our countryside could become a hi-tech dystopia similar to that of the Netherlands.
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OpinionIs the government right to relax density targets?
Yes, says Liz Peace, it should be a local decision; but Alex Ely says good design is the key
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Hidden agenda
RIBA chief executive Harry Rich (Letters June 4) attempts to refute the reasons why Azar Djamali says she resigned as chairman at the start of the London Regional Council meeting on April 29. He says this meeting was “called and entirely administered properly”.
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OpinionWe need to talk about housing
Wherever there are no jobs and a barren stretch of sodden land to be flogged off cheaply, horrid homes sprout like random weeds.
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OpinionZero-carbon report could backfire
To most of us the financial crisis has been a reality check, not pleasant but necessary. But for environmentalists the penny is taking longer to drop .This is because they believe their cause is more important than anything else.
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OpinionTime to build on the Cold War legacy
Scrapping the nuclear budget would enable us to build our way out of recession
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OpinionIt's not gardens that are the problem
The end of so-called ‘garden grabbing’ in fact marks an abandonment of the the policies set out by the Urban Task Force.
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Technical terms
Architectural “draughtsmen” did not get together to form their own organisation (Letters May 28)
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OpinionPricey principles
Your report on Tooley & Foster’s “zero carbon”housing in Basildon (News June 4) made my eyebrows shoot upwards so far that Nasa is thinking of using them as replacement shuttles to the International Space Station
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Upwardly mobile
Regulation-free or child-free zone? Please, have some respect for the kids of today (Letters May 21).