All Opinion articles – Page 135
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OpinionFinch on the Frontline
After Guardian architecture correspondent Jonathan Glancey pulled out of Tuesday’s debate on the merits of the architectural press, his place was taken by Paul Finch who joined journos and architects at the war reporters’ hideout the Frontline Club in Paddington.
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Finance is the key to planning
Regarding proposed changes to planning rules, what’s needed is for the government to allow local authorities greater freedom to borrow money to finance infrastructure, acquire land and assemble development sites.
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OpinionThe Hoxton effect
One of the first rules for a RIBA president is not to talk in metaphors or even riddles.
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OpinionTripoli's burnt-out case
The Foreign Office might have scaled back its embassy-building ambitions for the time being but even its penny pinchers can’t deny that there’s one embassy project that is ripe for more than an austerity refurb: Tripoli.
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RIBA’s attempts to be 'cool' make it irrelevant
In a week when the front pages of the right-wing national press have been filled with stories about planning legislation, is the RIBA lobbying a hostile government for a greater role for architects in delivering this “sustainable development”? No?
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OpinionShould the BBC be a patron of architecture?
Yes says Chris Brown, its position as a publicly funded body demands that it commissions good design; but Emma Boon feels Auntie should be more careful with the taxpayers’ pursestrings
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OpinionCorrespondent missing in action
Sadly, Guardian architecture correspondent Jonathan Glancey pulled out of Tuesday’s debate on the merits or otherwise of the architectural press because he “had to go to Ronchamp”.
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OpinionQuay questions for the BBC
The BBC might be able to wriggle out of responsibility for MediaCity UK on the grounds it was not actually the client — but this doesn’t alter the fact it struck a very bad deal with developer Peel Holdings, according to a former member of the BBC’s design review panel.
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OpinionThe real cost of free schools
The government has just announced that the first 24 free schools are set to open in a couple of weeks, having involved a capital expenditure of somewhere between £110 and £130 million.
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Photographers need perspective
Photographers behave as if the imposition of their particular agenda is some God-given right (“Don’t photograph our building, say private security guards caught on film” bdonline August 19).
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OpinionOur judges' husky voices
Carbuncle Cup judge Rowan Moore was particularly well placed to compare the BBC’s new base in Salford with its old accommodation.
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OpinionScabal: Flushed with enthusiasm
Two of the photos that strangely failed to make the cut in this week’s Inspiration.
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OpinionWhen Delhi's Kingdom of Dreams is shut
India’s capital shows us the process of becoming a metropolis — and it isn’t pretty
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OpinionProject & survive at the RIBA debate
Boots is pleased to hear the panel members for next week’s RIBA Building Futures debate — Has the architectural media lost its backbone? — are taking it very seriously.
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Greenwich University must change course
Neil Spiller’s actions at Greenwich University come as no real surprise (“Spiller wields axe” News August 26).
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Traditionalist architects are blocked every time
Paul Finch has thrown down a challenge (Letters August 26) to prove bias in Cabe and says that the Traditional Architecture Group protesters don’t have direct experience.
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OpinionIs being cool an appropriate ambition for the RIBA?
Yes says Chris Roche, former RIBA Council member. No says Joe Morris, director at Duggan Morris Architects.
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OpinionRCA dean position: It's academic
Rumours rage as to who was on the shortlist for the RCA architecture dean this week, as interviews finally took place at a secret location.
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OpinionRight now, no one’s a winner
Adopting a new approach to competitions could save time and money – and offer better opportunities for young practices
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OpinionCan planning policy safeguards stop overdevelopment?
Yes, says Jeremy Blackburn, they will protect the countryside; while Peter Nixon says that reform is going too far