All Opinion articles – Page 80
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OpinionSlippery slope
The sloping wall, most recently seen in the illustration of Zaha Hadid’s Michigan art museum (News December 18) but also in Libeskind’s V&A extension and latterly his prefabricated houses (News October 2) as well as Herzog & de Meuron’s revised Tate Modern extension (Debate October 16) externally looks great
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Street views
It is with sadness that I read of Grant Smith’s recent experience of photographing London from a public space (News December 11). Alas it is not a new phenomenon, but one that is deteriorating
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OpinionPassing the buck on bad design
Criticising the government for spending millions on poorly designed housing is to miss a somewhat sensitive point
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Consensus cost
It was interesting to read Amanda Baillieu's contribution to the Spectator’s December 4 issue, in which she described the reactions to her recent editorial on global warming (Leader November 6)
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OpinionCorrection
Sculptures on the Woolwich riverside (pictured), attributed to Antony Gormley in last week’s Urban Trawl on Greenwich were in fact by Peter Burke.
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Dubai dystopia
Congratulations on your editorial on the Dubai debacle (Leader December 4), here’s hoping it gets up people’s noses. There should be no sympathy for those practices who dashed to the trough to help build a dystopian playground for the super-rich, including such energy-guzzling projects as a revolving hotel
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OpinionPlace shaping for everyone
Jonathan Glancey’s article “Who will gallop to the rescue?” (November 27) struck a massive chord in Bradford Council’s regeneration department, made up of planning, asset management, transport, housing and economic development
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Out of the woods
Sam Webb catalogues a number of fires in timber frame structures to support his claim that timber frames are not a suitable form of construction for built-up areas (Debate December 4). It is notable that all of his examples sit within London and the South-east
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Tropical storm
One way that architects can (and should) make a significant change on the overall carbon impact of buildings is to eschew tropical hardwoods. Our research has shown that imported tropical hardwoods are the key driver of deforestation in the tropics, which is responsible for 25% of human-caused CO2 emissions
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OpinionBrian Anson: charming enfant terrible - and destroyer of SAC
I was sorry to read in BD (News November 27) of the death of Brian Anson; and I was transported back to distant lands by your comment
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Anson and the SAC
Much as I admired Brian Anson your account of his role in setting up the Schools of Architecture Council (SAC) is a bit misleading (News November 27)
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Bags of talent
It was with great sadness that I read of Brian Anson’s death. Brian was a great source of support and creative provocation when I first started as head at the then University of North London
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Hole in the wall
Jonathan Glancey’s November 6 article contains contradictory arguments. Opening with the Berlin Wall, as tempting as it is due to the recent anniversary, doesn’t work
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Ask an architect
While Stuart Lipton, John Sorrell, Paul Finch and Nicholas Serota are all fine people and by and large know something about good architecture, they do represent government’s reluctance in England to put architects in the top adviser jobs (News November 20)
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OpinionRome wasn’t built in a day
Ellis Woodman’s article on Zaha Hadid’s Maxxi building in Rome (Works November 20) applies conventional critical analysis to unconventional contexts
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OpinionPhoto call
Who’s that next to Herman Hertzberger (Archive, November 20)? Is it the ever-youthful John Worthington, or just a lookalike?
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Capital qualities
Cardiff is not a capital “of some sort” (Urban Trawl November 6) it is the capital of Wales.
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Carbuncle too?
At first glance, the new National Museum in Rome looks just like the ferry terminal in Liverpool which won this year’s Carbuncle Cup (Features August 28)