All Opinion articles – Page 132
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OpinionBrief encounter at the Design Museum
One of the most coveted bashes at London’s Frieze Art Fair is Thursday’s dinner at the Commonwealth Institute, aka the new Design Museum, hosted by Calvin Klein, Deyan Sudjic and their mutual architect John Pawson. Guests will be given an “aesthetic glimpse” of the new museum, which we’re told will ...
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OpinionDoes the Stirling Prize need to be more transparent?
No, says Ruth Reed, confidentiality is vital to the panel’s debate; but George Ferguson is keen to see a wider audience involved
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OpinionLesson learnt
It seems Stirling judge Angela Brady might not have studied the winning building as closely as one might have hoped.
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OpinionWhy is this great architecture?
The judges have every right to award the Stirling to Hadid, but the opacity of their decision is harming the prize
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OpinionTory green rhetoric is a lot of hot air
The Conservative Party conference saw ministers pushing conflicting views on sustainability
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OpinionMissing the point of parks
Giles Dolphin, assistant director of planning for the Greater London Authority, writing in defence of One Hyde Park (Letters September 16) stated that the building: “if visible above the trees would have improved views from Hyde Park on account of its architectural excellence”.
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OpinionRykwert needs no more gilding
Joseph Rykwert’s Chelsea housing is well saved, but using it to prove that he can design as well as think (“Top names back Rykwert for medal”, News September 23) does not enhance his claim for the RIBA Gold Medal.
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OpinionStirling decision stuck in the past
How disappointing it was to see Zaha Hadid’s Evelyn Grace Academy win this year’s Stirling Prize.
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OpinionRed or dead
Ivor Smith, Park Hill’s original architect and a guest of Urban Splash on Saturday evening, was reminiscing over the days when he used to go drinking with Berthold Lubetkin, in whose memory RIBA awards its annual international prize.
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OpinionFor your consideration
It was surely no coincidence that Hopkins Architects chose the week before the Stirling Prize to lumber readers of the AJ with a 104-page supplement on its Olympic Velodrome.
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OpinionIt's time to stop sizing up the competition
I joined my first firm in 1969 when it had five people.
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OpinionPrize Charlie
A last minute replacement was needed on the Stirling Prize judging panel for Lene Tranberg, architect at Lundgaard & Tranberg after one of the practice’s projects made the RIBA awards midlist, creating a potential conflict of interest.
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OpinionCanning it
In austerity Britain, RIBA planned this year’s Stirling prize jamboree rather well.
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The birth of the Memphis Group?
May I claim, a little shamefacedly — like Spike Milligan on his part in Hitler’s downfall — my place at the origins of postmodernism?
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OpinionA considerably better school than Maxxi is an art gallery
I can’t say that I shared the widespread incredulity at the choice of Evelyn Grace Academy as winner of this year’s Stirling. The prize has surely long since lost its credibility as a reward for architectural merit.
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OpinionWangari Maathai
Africa’s leading female environmentalist held lessons for us all, says John McAslan
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OpinionAn architectural ceasefire?
The debates over working under Gaddafi are now done, but what about the future for the practices that are heading back to Libya?
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OpinionSound of pomo
Guests at the V&A’s suitably styled postmodernism opening party were entertained by Annie Lennox, who even persuaded some of them into a sing-a-long of her old Eurythmics standard “Sweet Dreams Are Made of This”.
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True meaning of sustainability
Richard Rogers’ objection to the planning bill (“Rogers ready to fight planning bill in Lords” News September 23) is absolutely right.
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Trusts can solve listings threat
One interesting solution to the reported threat to thousands of listed buildings (“New risk to listed buildings” News September 23) might be to start handing over ownership to community trusts.