All Opinion articles – Page 170
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London matters
I must correct a number of factual inaccuracies referred to by Azar Djamali (Letters May 28)
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Interesting times
We learn from Peter Phillips (Letters May 28) that unelected officers sit on several boards with full voting rights
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Fantasy world
Peter Phillips (Letters May 28) was not on council when I presented new board proposals and he evidently misunderstands its role
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Going Dutch offers food for thought
Should the UK sacrifice its land to the intensive farming methods of the Netherlands?
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Correction
Qatari Diar paid £959 million for the Chelsea Barracks site, and not £9.95 million as reported on last week’s front page
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OpinionPunctured ideals over Wandsworth bike racks
The best laid plans of mice and, er, architects go oft awry
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Architecture’s final frontier
The Pantheon and the International Space Station share the ability of great buildings to inspire wonder
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OpinionCan supermarket buildings ever be good architecture?
Alex Lifschutz of Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands says supermarkets are well-designed when they improve neighbourhoods but Mitchell Taylor Workshop’s Piers Taylor believes the design is just building as hoarding
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OpinionTV’s game-show architecture
Would there be TV freak shows if buildings worked with the landscape and were built at a slower pace?
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OpinionWhy I resigned as London chair
As the former chairman of London Region, I wish to make clear the circumstances that lead to my resignation on April 29 this year
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OpinionPiano hits a bum note
Central St Giles exemplifies how, in London, grossly over-scaled buildings can be nodded through if a ’good designer’ is attached
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Time to move on
While it is difficult to commend the lack of masterplanning of Surrey Quays in the 1980s, I find Owen Hatherley’s political rant about the Conservatives (Opinion May 21) a reactionary jab following, presumably, an election result that he finds difficult to stomach
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Members only
Owen Luder says it appears RIBA staff have been taking sides in a dispute between elected officers
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OpinionSee Venice Little-Britain style
Shades of Vicky Pollard dominate the Venice Architecture Biennale
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OpinionThings look set to get grim up north
This year’s RSA exhibition points to a crisis of confidence among Scottish architects
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No pain, no gain
Many years ago, architectural draughtsmen – who were doing the architect’s work for him, and felt they were in fact propping him up on the technical side – got the hump.
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OpinionName games at the DCMS
Boots was surprised to see the Guardian unilaterally rechristen the Department of Culture Media & Sport the DCOMS, to take account of Jeremy Hunt’s Olympic responsibilities
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Correction
In our report on the RIBA Awards (News May 21), Walter Hall Primary School should have been credited to Architecture MK, Milton Keynes Council.
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Beware of cads
I read with interest the debate about sketching versus computer-generated images (Debate May 21).