All Opinion articles – Page 157
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OpinionHelsinki architect puts rap in the house
The days of formal lectures with slides and laser pointers may not quite be over, but Helsinki architect Tuomas Toivonen obviously believes architects need to find new ways to communicate their ideas
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OpinionDoes the UK construction industry lack ambition?
We shouldn’t blame our shortcomings on our clients, says Paul Morrell, while Rosemary Beales argues that we live in a place where it is hard to get things built
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Planning ahead
Your leader and Derek Abbott’s letter (November 12) made me recall my father, Roy Kantorowich, who is surely spinning in his grave, shouting “told you so” whether you like it or not
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The space age
William Fawcett (Letters, November 12) could not be more wrong in supposing that architects working in the public sector in the sixties were not supported by a body of research. At that time there was a constant stream of Building Bulletins from the Ministry of Housing & Local Government.In 1961 ...
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OpinionWhat a pickle we’re in now
Your report and leader (November 5) on the state of emerging planning legislation make for disturbing reading
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Public interest
While we keep banging on about the protection of title, it does not appear to be of much interest to the greater community
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Good riddance
The government’s curtailment of the Thames Gateway is not only necessary, but good
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OpinionFruit juice of human kindness
Speak to any developer or product manufacturer and you would think we live in a green utopia
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Creative gap
Your enlightened leader (October 22) is dead right about British planners’ lack of creative design
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OpinionMake’s ‘diamonds’ of Birmingham
Make’s Carbuncle Cup-nominated Cube building in Birmingham just got even classier. 39-year-old graffiti artist Temper (or, as his mother knows him, Aaron Bird) has created a £250,000 installation for the foyer featuring bronze figures of inspirational people including a firefighter, Holocaust survivor and counsellor.Temper was struck by Make supremo Ken ...
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Weighing up the housing benefits
Council housing is the forgotten alternative to a system that subsidises rich landlords.
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OpinionLeaving its staff behind
RMJM would do well to look back to the leadership skills of founder Robert Matthew
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Bad science
It is interesting that David Kohn praises Camden’s public housing of the sixties and seventies for being experimental (Culture November 5)
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OpinionWill the Green Deal mean much work for architects?
Architects will be able to incorporate the deal into their services, says Andrew Mellor, but Brian Berry believes it is builders who will benefit
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OpinionLessons from 60s Camden
An exhibition on council homes in the sixties demonstrates how current procurement processes hamper good quality social housing
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Timely warning
Three letters last week (Gibbs-Kennet, Matthews and Smith) separately stated good reasons for registration to be reckoned unsatisfactory from the point of view of students on the way to qualifying.
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Legal recourse
Mike Matthews (Letters October 29) is right when he says that the Arb offers no effective protection of title. The trivial fines it imposes are no disincentive to the wide abuse of variations on the title architect
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OpinionNouvel’s lobby proves hard to live with
With last week’s opening of One New Change, Jean Nouvel may not want for admirers in London, but in New York he is proving a rather harder sell