All Opinion articles – Page 155
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Correction
Last week’s story on the winner of the Greenwich Millennium Village competition reported that Proctor & Matthews was in a team lead by Aecom. In fact, the firm was in a team with Feilden Clegg Bradley, Alison Brooks and S333.
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OpinionBSF fee claims are unjust
We believe BD’s story last week “The architects who billed £1m in BSF consultancy fees” to be unfair, disingenuous and misleading. The signatories of this letter represent most of the practices who are designing schools within the Birmingham BSF programme
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Blame game
In response to Tom Cordell’s comments on my review of his documentary Utopia London (Letters December 3) I’d like to reassert that there remains an awkward chronology in one section of his film
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OpinionAlsop’s affairs are taxing stuff
Will Alsop has a famously tangled business history – and it just got even messier
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OpinionDid school client design advisers offer poor value?
Yes, they were inappropriate in the context of what most architects earn, says Chris Roche; no, they provided an essential service to a flawed system, counters Paul Fletcher
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OpinionStudying must be worth it
How much did your architectural education cost? No idea? Well, consider yourself lucky.
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Qualified success
I’m getting fed up with unqualified part II architects harping on about equivalence (News November 26)
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A new utopia
Otto Saumarez Smith’s review of Utopia London gives the impression that it is mainly about the LCC architects’ department
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The truly green shoots of recovery
As the downturn eases, we have environmental opportunities closer to home than Mexico.
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Why we need the county set
County architects understood the people they were building for and their demise has left us architecturally poorer
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OpinionIs it right to scrap the HCA’s core housing standards
Increasing the cost of private homes is not justified, says John Slaughter, while Ruth Reed says standards are vital when faced with the problems of poor quality housing
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OpinionGet concrete
3DReid won planning this week for a £150 million shopping centre and student village of predictable inanity on the site formerly occupied by Owen Luder’s Get Carter carpark
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OpinionCarry on creaming
The startling fees paid to client design advisers point to the failures of the public sector procurement process
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Charge for Cabe
Regarding your front page this week (“Cabe set to be rescued by communities dept” News November 26) Cabe should spurn the opportunity of a taxpayer-funded resurrection and set itself up as a commercial operation, funded by the design service it sees itself as offering
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OpinionPhoto ban in ‘public’ spaces
I applaud BD drawing attention to the privatisation of London’s public space (“Mayor warned: London is being privatised” News November 26)
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OpinionIntegrate to educate
Is the education and registration of architects in the UK out of sync with industry?
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OpinionThe arts are built to last
Though funding prospects look bleak, recent investments in architecture will help arts bodies weather the storm