All Opinion articles – Page 156
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Winning ways
Wouldn’t it be easier to describe all CIAT, Riba degree-level candidates as apprentice architects?
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OpinionLocal planning
Cabe chairman Paul Finch is on shaky ground in arguing that “anything in the built environment we admire had nothing to do with local communities putting in their ideas on design” (bdonline November 15)
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OpinionOn leading northern lights
Low winter sun presents particular challenges for architects working in northern climes
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Memory lane
I enjoyed Owen Hatherley’s urban trawl (November 12) and look forward to the rest
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OpinionSurveying Robin Hood’s riches
As a member of the Twentieth Century Society, I deplore the statement on last week’s front page by its spokesman, condemning architects bidding for the Robin Hood Gardens site
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Try looking east for inspiration
Serbian activists could teach us a thing or two about the value of modernist social housing
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Fuelling debate
The Twentieth Century Society’s primary issue with the new proposals for Robin Hood Gardens, is rooted in questioning the client objectives and the brief, not the architects involved
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Correction
Our report last week on “Designs to replace Robin Hood Gardens revealed” said that Maccreanor Lavington was part of the team fronted by Swan Housing & Countryside Properties. While the practice was invited to be part of the team, it declined to participate.
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OpinionShould part IIs be allowed to call themselves architects?
Yes, says Paul McGrath, the current regulations put part IIs at a disadvantage against other EU architects; but Owen Luder feels a revamped training system is the answer to addressing the anomaly
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OpinionAll in the timing at Chelsea Barracks
Chelsea Barracks developer Qatari Diar has applied for immunity from listing for the Guards’ chapel on its land
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OpinionDot to dot results: 19 November 2010
Last week’s winner was Elissa Evans of Powell Dobson in Swansea, who identified Frank Gehry’s IAC building in New York
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OpinionKnowledge is Power
Will the profession ultimately fail itself with style but no substance? asks KPF’s John Bushell
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OpinionA broader failure of vision
Neither of the projects in contention to replace Robin Hood Gardens looks likely to address the basic problems of the site
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OpinionContradictions of the new localism
Axeing Regional Development Agencies doesn’t negate the need for regional strategy
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Seven year itch
Abolishing the final year of professional practice and absorbing part III examinations into part II seems on the cards if the EU/McGrath issue is to be resolved
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OpinionWhat’s wrong with part III?
So Paul McGrath would like to use the title of architect because he sees it as appropriate recognition for five years of study (News November 5)
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Housing vision
I read with interest Ed Hollis’s diatribe on the sad demise of council housing (November 12)
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What is an architect’s price?
Is it just money that leads practices to take on morally dubious projects?