All Opinion articles – Page 77
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OpinionNo entrance?
With reference to your article on Sanaa’s Rolex Learning Centre in Lausanne (Works March 5), the bottom left photograph on page 28 is subtitled “A freestanding canopy marks the entrance at the centre of the plan”
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Object lessons
Re “Cabe told assessors to destroy scores” (News February 26), I have experienced a similar practice of being required to return sheets with scores and notes at meetings called to consider submissions for public art projects
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Out of the picture
As an archivist I find you bring a very salutary element of architectural reality into a very large architectural archive where “modern” mainly refers to the 1930s-1960s
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OpinionShoal patch
I would like to clarify that the Shoal at Stratford (News February 19) is not intended to hide the Stratford Centre but — together with the less talked about public realm improvements across the wider town centre — to set a confident tone for the current and dynamic regeneration of ...
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OpinionAxe BSF and save us £2.3bn
When the Building Schools for the Future programme was launched in 2004, ministers promised it would result in every state secondary school in England being rebuilt or refurbished by 2020
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Critical acclaim
I would disagree with some of the points made by Ellis Woodman in his Works article on February 19 about the Museum Folkwang
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Top ambassadors
Your article on embassy overruns (News February 19) highlights the problems of the Foreign Office’s selection system
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Function not fun
Piers Gough argues against pleasing the public (Debate February 19), saying “forwarding the art of architecture is the point of having architects”
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OpinionHaile laughable
Your report that titanium leaves costing £3 million are to hide the poverty of London’s East End from the eyes of Olympic visitors (News February 19) reminds me of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie
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OpinionNothing to hide
BD’s “come clean” campaign felt like good investigative journalism until last week. Now it’s getting a bit cheap, and a tad personal
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Out of sight
Charles Bain Smith makes a very good point (Letters February 19). Would we accept anything but “invisible mending” for a torn tweed jacket or an oil painting or for personal cosmetic surgery?
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Kick for Cabe
It is regrettable that the Homes & Communities Agency (HCA) has decided to reduce the involvement of the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (Cabe) in Round 2 of Kickstart
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OpinionPoundbury’s public deceit
Malcolm Millais (Debate February 19) accuses architects of living in their own narcissistic ghetto and ignoring public opinion. He cites Poundbury as a prime example of what people really want but, if this is the apogee of public taste, god help us all
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Northern delights
Carolyn Steel (Opinion February 5) concentrates on just one of Asplund’s works but, in my view, his greatest achievement was his woodland cemetery, for its unique attention to detail and landscapeWhen I visited Asplund’s Gothenburg Law Courts extension as a student over 60 years ago it was the wonderful interior ...
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OpinionCan we be frank?
David Chipperfield writes of the need for “sympathetic clients, open-minded planning committees and an informed public” in the context of “an atmosphere that does not encourage good design”
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Refrain, please
I find myself equally affronted by both protagonists in your debate “Should architects try harder to please the public?” (February 19)
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OpinionCompetition not cronyism
Britain needs more competitions and more clients like the US government, not fewer