All Opinion articles – Page 186
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OpinionShould we question green orthodoxy?
Readers are split in their responses to last week’s leader calling for a debate on climate change
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OpinionPlane Stupid’s flight of fancy
Pressure group Plane Stupid lived up to its name at BD’s Architect of the Year Awards, after it emerged its satirical attack on Heathrow’s third runway architect had been directed at, er, the wrong firm
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Data error
As a professional meteorologist and hydrologist, may I congratulate you on approaching this thorny topic with the proper scientific rigour, which even whilst I was at school, I was taught should provide considered conclusions, which can only be supported by fact
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OpinionThe climate debate isn’t over
Attacking the media for raising questions about global warning only exemplifies how green orthodoxy is stifling legitimate discussion
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Climate debate has moved on
Responding to your leader last week,“Is global warming hot air?”, it is worth reflecting on how the climate change debate has developed
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Good chances
So the London Development Agency is “championing” good design by only employing “good” architects (News November 6)
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OpinionHome is where the bullying is
Locally and nationally, decisions are being based on ideology not common sense
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RIBA box ticking
I fail to understand why the RIBA makes it compulsory for practices who want to be chartered to have to have an environmental policy
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OpinionWhere is the Ice Cube of architecture?
Today the idea of an angry architecture is all but inconceivable
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OpinionIs the new policy statement PPS 15 a threat to heritage?
Yes, by assuming heritage stands in the way of economic recovery, says the RTPI’s Martin Willey; while English Heritage’s Duncan McCallum counters that it maintains protection for the historic environment
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OpinionChipperfield's lucky escape
I can empathise with David Chipperfield’s disappointment for not being asked to develop his competition-winning Film Centre design for the BFI (News October 30). My 1995 design for it, for the south side of Tate Modern, was similarly superseded
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OpinionThe writing is on the walls
Twenty years after the Berlin wall came crashing down a new breed of barrier appears to be growing
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Wider tradition
If we follow Jonathan Glancey’s argument (October 30), we can’t win. If our survey on public taste in architecture compares similar things we’re superficial, but if we’d compared unlike things we’d be biased
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Movie puzzler
A lot of things puzzle me. One is sometimes why clients change architects. Chipperfield wins a competition. Eight years later the promoters get some extra money, decide that they have to hold a fresh competition and look for another architect when they had one of proven excellence. Why?
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Spurn this invite
Your readers may be aware of an invitation for expressions of interest for a sustainable housing scheme in Islington. The first stage submission asks “suppliers” to provide an AO board of conceptual design ideas for the site
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Structural flaw
Has any self-respecting architect ever disassociated structure and architecture?
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OpinionEdinburgh: time to take off the mask
Hiding behind a fictional heritage will leave this city stuck in the past
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Correction
Formtexx’s double-curvature panels (Solutions October 30) will cost £650 per sq m, a 10th of the cost of the steel plates in Chicago’s Millennium Park rather than half the cost, as reported.