All Opinion articles – Page 71
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OpinionLet’s nurture nature
I know architects are supposed to prize architecture above all, but some of us are concerned about agriculture too; concerned enough not to condone a glib formalistic view of how crops should be raised and animals husbanded
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Less than zero
BD June 4: zero-carbon 28 unit affordable housing at Basildon, £5.7 million pound development (News)
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OpinionGrand designs
David Nixon’s piece on the International Space Station (Works June 4) was just brilliant. Great pictures and layout
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OpinionHow the other half builds
The gap between low-cost housing and luxury developments grows ever wider.
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Correction: 11 June 2010
Contrary to our story on page 2 last week, there is no current threat of redundancies at Nightingale Associates following its sale to Canadian firm, IBI Group. BD would like to apologise for the error.
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Where now for Battersea Power Station?
Years ago I had the pleasure of spending an evening with Rafael Vinoly. It began with a certain amount of drama as he insisted on driving down a one way street on the way to the restaurant.
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Why do architects choose names that require a BBC pronunciation manual?
If Buschow Henley wasn’t bad enough, the practice has now rebranded and come up with Henley Halebrown Rorrison guaranteed to be as troublesome to BBC newsreaders as al-Qa’eda and J K Rowling.
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Another day, another reason to lay into Michael Gove
Gove’s gaffes aren’t quite up there with Tony Hayward, BP’s chief executive. On the other hand it takes quite a lot to stir RIBA and by yesterday it was sufficiently wound up by the education secretary’s latest comment to put out a press release.
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Going Dutch offers food for thought
Should the UK sacrifice its land to the intensive farming methods of the Netherlands?
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Architecture’s final frontier
The Pantheon and the International Space Station share the ability of great buildings to inspire wonder
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OpinionWhy I resigned as London chair
As the former chairman of London Region, I wish to make clear the circumstances that lead to my resignation on April 29 this year
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OpinionPiano hits a bum note
Central St Giles exemplifies how, in London, grossly over-scaled buildings can be nodded through if a ’good designer’ is attached
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Time to move on
While it is difficult to commend the lack of masterplanning of Surrey Quays in the 1980s, I find Owen Hatherley’s political rant about the Conservatives (Opinion May 21) a reactionary jab following, presumably, an election result that he finds difficult to stomach
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Members only
Owen Luder says it appears RIBA staff have been taking sides in a dispute between elected officers
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OpinionSee Venice Little-Britain style
Shades of Vicky Pollard dominate the Venice Architecture Biennale
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OpinionThings look set to get grim up north
This year’s RSA exhibition points to a crisis of confidence among Scottish architects
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No pain, no gain
Many years ago, architectural draughtsmen – who were doing the architect’s work for him, and felt they were in fact propping him up on the technical side – got the hump.
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Correction
In our report on the RIBA Awards (News May 21), Walter Hall Primary School should have been credited to Architecture MK, Milton Keynes Council.
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Beware of cads
I read with interest the debate about sketching versus computer-generated images (Debate May 21).