All Opinion articles – Page 184
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OpinionDot to dot results: 26 February 2010
The winner of last week’s competition was Stephanie Beck of Architon in Epsom, Surrey, who identified the Mercedes Benz Museum in Stuttgart by UN Studio
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OpinionAxe BSF and save us £2.3bn
When the Building Schools for the Future programme was launched in 2004, ministers promised it would result in every state secondary school in England being rebuilt or refurbished by 2020
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OpinionFrom yachts to socks – a user's guide to getting the most from Mipim
The annual Mipim property fair is one of the industry's rites of passage. With this year’s event looming around the corner, we ask three old hands to offer their top tips on how to make it work for you
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Refrain, please
I find myself equally affronted by both protagonists in your debate “Should architects try harder to please the public?” (February 19)
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Modern mirage
David Chipperfield (Letters) and Piers Gough (Debate) made a good pair in last week’s issue
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OpinionCan we be frank?
David Chipperfield writes of the need for “sympathetic clients, open-minded planning committees and an informed public” in the context of “an atmosphere that does not encourage good design”
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OpinionDublin’s docklands, a melting pot of failure
The recession has left Dublin’s half-hearted and half-finished new buildings open to reinterpretation
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OpinionWhat a difference a year makes…
Cabe chief executive Richard Simmons on why “nothing poor” must be built with public money – one year ago
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Northern delights
Carolyn Steel (Opinion February 5) concentrates on just one of Asplund’s works but, in my view, his greatest achievement was his woodland cemetery, for its unique attention to detail and landscapeWhen I visited Asplund’s Gothenburg Law Courts extension as a student over 60 years ago it was the wonderful interior ...
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OpinionPoundbury’s public deceit
Malcolm Millais (Debate February 19) accuses architects of living in their own narcissistic ghetto and ignoring public opinion. He cites Poundbury as a prime example of what people really want but, if this is the apogee of public taste, god help us all
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OpinionSong and dance in Glasgow
Those who lost out in the £10 million job to upgrade Glasgow’s Theatre Royal are grumbling about a conflict of interest because the wife of Alex Reedijk, Scottish Opera’s general director, is architect Anne Goldrick, who works for none other than the winner, Page\Park
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OpinionCabe’s paranoid tendencies
Our quest to uncover the Kickstart scores has growing parallels with the MPs’ expenses scandal
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Kick for Cabe
It is regrettable that the Homes & Communities Agency (HCA) has decided to reduce the involvement of the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (Cabe) in Round 2 of Kickstart
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OpinionIs the listings process guilty of being too populist?
Heritage campaigner Robin Stummer says, yes, the UK struggles to define significance, while architecture minister Margaret Hodge argues for listing buildings with historical importance such as Abbey Road
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OpinionCompetition not cronyism
Britain needs more competitions and more clients like the US government, not fewer
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OpinionVery wound up
News that the practice headed by Richard Seifert’s son John has been wound up by the tax- man might come as a relief to news editors everywhere
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OpinionUnreconstructed
When my beautiful Mark VII Jaguar sustained an ugly crumple to the offside wing, I took it to the garage for repairs with the express instructions that they ignore the mildly patinated and seductively curved bottle-green original coachwork but rather patch the offending area with some functional construction in angled ...