All Opinion articles – Page 185
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Carbuncle too?
At first glance, the new National Museum in Rome looks just like the ferry terminal in Liverpool which won this year’s Carbuncle Cup (Features August 28)
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Capital qualities
Cardiff is not a capital “of some sort” (Urban Trawl November 6) it is the capital of Wales.
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OpinionPhoto call
Who’s that next to Herman Hertzberger (Archive, November 20)? Is it the ever-youthful John Worthington, or just a lookalike?
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OpinionRome wasn’t built in a day
Ellis Woodman’s article on Zaha Hadid’s Maxxi building in Rome (Works November 20) applies conventional critical analysis to unconventional contexts
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OpinionWe can’t design buildings on our own
Unless we can develop a sense of common purpose all collaboration is doomed to fail
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OpinionShould architects resign from bad projects?
Yes, says Peter Barber, we have responsibilities beyond our paymasters; while Mary Duggan counters that persevering is more of a statement than resigning
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Ask an architect
While Stuart Lipton, John Sorrell, Paul Finch and Nicholas Serota are all fine people and by and large know something about good architecture, they do represent government’s reluctance in England to put architects in the top adviser jobs (News November 20)
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OpinionLost in the name of sustainability
The demolition of an innovative 19th century steel girder bridge is entirely unnecessary
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OpinionWhen it's wrong to walk
Refusing to work for difficult clients is likely to result in worse buildings in the sectors that matter most
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OpinionWill the Glasgow Lighthouse thrive in public hands?
Peter Wilson says, no, it has long ceased to deliver any genuine national function, but Page Park founder David Page argues that it is time a national institution found a setting in Scotland’s biggest city
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Solid evidence
Your editorial “Is global warming hot air?” (November 6) does a great disservice to our profession. To claim a “growing wealth of scientific evidence” that climate change is not predominantly man made, without citing this supposed evidence, either suggests that BD knows something the rest of us don’t, or BD ...
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Don’t talk rubbish
Jonathan Glancey’s article, “Home is where the bullying is” (November 13) is unnecessarily unkind to those who have the unpleasant task of dealing with our recycling and waste at “town dumps”
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Keep a cool head
Our profession has a key role in adapting for the consequences of the 10-century-long trend of global warming, but this does not mean we have to dumbly accept the assertions of the “greenhouse gas” proponents. Many of the same climate campaigners were frightening us with a new ice age, as ...
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Do you have a better mousetrap?
Recession can be a good time to launch a business, but don’t bother if you’re offering nothing new.
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Skateboarders take on the Supreme Court (benches)
The elegant carved stone anti-car bomb benches outside Feilden & Mawson’s Supreme Court in Parliament Square are themselves protected by 6ft fences. It turns out a rogue skateboarder knocked a chunk out of one of them before the court was even open
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OpinionClimate change beyond ‘belief’
I am amazed that many usually rational people — including architects — have turned into evangelical, fanatical bigots when it comes to the question of climate and energy
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United approach
The construction industry cannot afford to waste any more time debating which scientific data it prefers to believe. There is a “good enough” consensus among climate scientists that humans can affect climate
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Can’t win ’em all
It is sad to read of the suspension of the scheme to extend Asplund’s Stockholm City Library (News November 13), but predictable. The difficulty with competitions that rely on a winning design, which is then implemented, is the lack of opportunity for reflection and consultation
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Corrections - 20 November 2009
The image used with last week’s news story “Stockholm axes plan for library extension” was not the winning entry by Heike Hanada as stated, but Jonathan Woolf’s design, which came seventh.The photograph of Caruso St John’s Nottingham Contemporary on page 12 last week should have been credited to Hélène Binet.
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Talent show
In these gloomy times it is nice to see that the likes of Atkins and Capita are “poaching” talent from design-oriented firms