All Opinion articles – Page 133
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Opinion
Planning reform must lift housebuilding standards
The RIBA’s discussion over housing space standards will not improve the standard of housebuilding (“Architects pan RIBA’s home space campaign” News September 23).
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OpinionHOK's high flyer
HOK managed to borrow a walk-through metal detector from its client Gatwick for its “aviation” party last week, but Boots was mystified why that theme had been chosen.
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OpinionStratford inherits dystopian vision
Oliver Wainwright is rightly critical of the appalling developments in Stratford’s High Street (Buildings September 23).
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OpinionCritical mass
Reactions to the V&A’s show among the pomo old guard have been mixed. Charles Jencks stood up at the opening dinner to call for “two cheers for the exhibition”.
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OpinionRIBA council cosies up
Angela Brady’s first RIBA council meeting, as Boots has reported before, will take place not in the council chamber but in the Wren room on the sixth floor.
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OpinionA home where the buffalo don’t roam
A painful modernisation scheme will see Ahmedabad’s riverside slums emptied and concreted over
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OpinionIs design of Britain’s public housing over-regulated?
Yes, says David Prichard, there are too many sources of guidance; while Robert Klaschka thinks we need greater consistency
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OpinionAngela Brady goes east
Given the choice of chairing a session on housing at the Labour party conference or going to the UIA conference in Tokyo …
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Opinion
Rhowbotham's view is academic
Kevin Rhowbotham (Debate, September 23) is subject to a long standing trend where insecurity in academies makes professors position themselves as righteous moralists fighting for higher ideals against the dark outside world. Read Hermann Hesse’s The Glass Bead Game.
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OpinionRed tape strangles creativity in house design
The construction industry is burdened with an array of regulation and red tape.
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OpinionWhere is this war on red tape?
Despite many fine words, the government has not delivered on its promise to reduce regulation
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OpinionIs architecture best taught by practising architects?
Yes, says Gordon Murray, practitioners understand the design process best; but Kevin Rhowbotham feels it may already too late to salvage a sinking discipline
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OpinionSuccess is all in the execution...
The shoddy application of good planning ideas has sold our towns and cities short
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OpinionRogue saviour?
UBS’s £1.3 billion loss generated by rogue trader Kweku Adoboli will affect staff bonuses, but will it also have an impact on the Swiss bank’s new London HQ, Boots wonders?
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Planning reform threatens quality
I fear that Anne Power is absolutely right (“Planning policy risks creating city ghettos” News September 16): the only reason most developers seek real architectural talent is when they need to get a tricky scheme through the planning system.
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OpinionPomo’s a no-no
Bets are on as to who should be given the RIBA Gold Medal, and the hot favourite is Joseph Rykwert.
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OpinionNot your Mann
British Council architecture and design supremo Vicky Richardson has decided that, in a break from tradition, the curator of next year’s British pavilion at the Venice Biennale will be chosen by open competition, with no predetermined theme imposed.
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RIBA is right to raise space issue
It’s good that the RIBA has raised the issue of space standards - such an important subject in housing and yet almost completely neglected by the mainstream press (which I think must be fearful of losing the advertising custom of the volume housebuilders who flood their property pages).
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OpinionRio defensive
Country house architect John Pardey played down reports this week that he is designing a £3.5 million mansion in the Cotswolds for Manchester United footballer Rio Ferdinand.
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OpinionBirthday lettuce
Paying tribute to Terence Conran at the designer’s 80th birthday celebrations at Tate Modern this week, Stephen Bayley noted that Frank Gehry recently marked his own 80th with a cake resembling his Walt Disney concert hall.