All Opinion articles – Page 161
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OpinionDon’t monkee with South Bank
The new generation of MPs could do with a solid grounding in architectural principles
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Can spirituality be set in stone?
The Pope’s visit raises the question of how architects can offer a sense of the spiritual
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Redesigning Stuttgart with vuvuzelas
Noisy protests over its railway station scheme are helping to redefine a changing city
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Ranting at Raven
If the modern professional design student is no longer tied to the workspace (Ravensbourne College, Works September 17) why an eight-storey decorated shed stuck out in Greenwich?
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OpinionZaha at her peak
What do Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher have in common with mountaineers Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing?
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Follow Jamie
I am sure I am not the only architect that recalls the legacy of education in wretched temporary buildings; dispirited teachers trying to instil some form of education into uninterested and callow youth, closeted in drab green huts, propped up and mired in the mud, with buckets in strategic places ...
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OpinionGames failure is symbolic
The New Delhi bridge collapse reminds rising economic powers of the global imagery of architecture
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OpinionHas minimalism had its day?
Yes, says Sean Griffiths, it is about fake spirituality; while Seth Stein argues that it is a force for calm in a complex world
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OpinionCounted out
Westminster City Council Planning Committee gave planning consent to the 2012 countdown clock in Trafalgar Square (News September 17) because it is “temporary” and “exceptional”: hardly the Olympic spirit
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Cut the conflict
The Conservative MP quoted so prominently in last week’s BD (“Fears grow for Dewsbury regeneration masterplan” News September 17) has not seen the Dewsbury proposals and is now greatly embarrassed since the strategy has no pretty architectural pictures: it is economically driven and suggests a new local economy built on ...
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OpinionCentre is ageing healthily
As the original architects of Bethnal Green Health Centre we commend the internal refit Theis & Khan has carried out on our 1980s design
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OpinionAll aboard
Farrell and Grimshaw (September 17 page 2) are clearly modelling themselves on Yellow Submarine era John and Ringo? Even down to the ties, sideburns and glasses. Uncanny.Giles Martin, Wilkinson Eyre, London N19
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Who do we think we are kidding?
The trend for invoking the Blitz spirit reveals the hollowness of the new architecture of austerity
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OpinionOne supersize doesn’t fit all
Bigger isn’t necessarily better when it comes to urban design.
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OpinionDon’t ditch Dewsbury plans
If Cabe is to be relevant it needs to learn that architecture can no longer be treated in isolation
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Lead by example
Prince Charles’s Natural House is now expected to complete in early 2011 (News September 10).
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Schoolboy error
The problem with Michael Gove’s “wise men” who are reviewing the Department for Education’s capital spending programme is they are not construction professionals.
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Textbook design
I have long admired Toby Young for the intelligence of his opinions, but has he blown it? (“Free school pioneer says design not necessary” News September 10).
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Clean streets
Daniel Moylan is right about the need to reduce street clutter. (Debate September 3)
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OpinionDon’t pooh-pooh this change
Even before it’s finished, Barbican residents are debating a possible sobriquet for One New Change – the Jean Nouvel shopping complex in the City.