All Opinion articles – Page 163
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OpinionLibrary not fine
I cannot imagine what prompted you to feature (presumably with approval) the gross extension to the Croydon Carnegie Library (First Look August 27)
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Code challenge
An investment of £6 billion would not fund the site acquisition and construction of 100,000 “affordable homes”. Probably half that number at Code level 3 and a third of that number at Code level 6
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British Pavilion should be British
Regarding your report on the British Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale (News August 27), I do not understand why it was necessary for the British Council to commission and pay Wolfgang Scheppe, a German citizen living in Venice, to design the Ruskin Wing when there are many capable designers ...
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OpinionBiennale’s breakfast of champions
Forget the Golden Lion, the only competition anyone at Venice was really interested in was who had the best hotel
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OpinionShould ministers become involved with street design?
Daniel Moylan thinks Eric Pickles has made a useful intervention, but Richard Kemp argues that he is meddling in local matters
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Balls by name...
Ed Balls’ demand for a £6 billion investment in affordable homes is hilarious
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OpinionAmnesia over housing policy
Ed Balls’ ideas for funding affordable homes suggest he has learnt little from New Labour’s failures
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OpinionBoris is brave to think bigger
Ignore the critics, London’s new housing design guide will mainly give us a size of home long enjoyed in western Europe
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The resistance to regen starts here
Embracing every regeneration project on offer does no favours to our rundown urban areas
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I’m going to have to let you go
Everything’s getting dumped faster and faster, and that includes good stuff like Broadgate.
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Shaving foam
I deeply resent your characterisation of the Strata tower as “decked out with Philishave stylings” (Carbuncle Cup, August 13).
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Firm responds
I wish to add some much-needed clarification to the story published on August 17
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OpinionDo we need national design standards for housing?
Ewan Willars thinks standards will provide the challenge to produce innovative design, while Andrew Whitaker thinks there is no place for them in private housing
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Resorts should kick the bucket
Recent news that the average visitor to Redcar spends just £1.70 typifies the problems of Britain’s many rundown seaside towns
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Cracking Brazil
In response to your story “Practices look abroad as double dip looms” (News August 13), I believe that there are two main reasons why very few foreign architectural practices have acted in Brazil so far
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OpinionDebt and doubt for architecture graduates
It seems that only an extremely foolhardy 16-year-old student would choose to pursue a career in architecture if they pay any attention to the advice they’re getting from their careers advisers.
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Corrections: 13 August 2010
We have been asked to point out that the architects of the 1970 main museum extension to Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge were Leslie Martin and David Owers (News July 23).
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OpinionArchitectural education needs change, says Neil Spiller
Former Bartlett tutor Neil Spiller is as apprehensive as the freshers as he embarks on his new role as head of Architecture & Construction at the University of Greenwich.
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OpinionSetting the studio scenes
I read with interest your review of Chris Nolan’s film Inception (Culture July 30), and thought your readers would be interested to hear a little more about the props for the scenes in the two “architecture studios”
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Positive views
We read with interest your Leader (July 30) about Angela Brady’s appointment as RIBA president-elect and her comments regarding low pay