All Opinion articles – Page 193
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OpinionDo Prince Charles's views represent the people?
About as much as Louis XIV’s did, argues Kate Macintosh; while Robert Bargery counters that he echoes the voice of Middle England
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Rich pickings at the RIBA
Leafing through the RIBA’s report and accounts for 2008, Boots’ eye was drawn to a section marked “staff costs”
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Past and present
I am of course sorry that the British Museum has been frustrated in its expansion plans, which may well be badly needed (News July 31)
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OpinionLiverpool views
Liverpool One may not have impressed Hans van der Heijden (Boots July 31) but, unlike his work for a puerile housing scheme in Birkenhead and indeed the immensely disappointing Bluecoat Chambers scheme, the “masterplan” is very popular here in Liverpool
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Working holiday
I loved the little bit in your leader (July 24) advising architects to resolve the company’s problems before going on holiday
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Glut of standards
The main problem with the size of new homes (bdonline June 11) is the range of standards being applied
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Data processing
Your article on the number of black teachers in architecture schools (News July 31) presents a misleading picture of diversity in architecture as both a career and an academic discipline
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OpinionRogers failed to put the case
In his letter on Chelsea Barracks (July 17) Richard Rogers says: “There has been a steady flow of misinformation about Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners’ approach to the design”
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OpinionDubai? I can’t do Stevenage
I can’t help feeling that cities that grow all too quickly out of imperial decrees, government diktats, or desert sands are rarely successful
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OpinionA second bite at the cherry
Chelsea Barracks’ developer seems determined not to repeat the mistakes of the ill-fated Rogers Stirk Harbour masterplan
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OpinionModernism sells better with frocks
Coco Before Chanel reminds us why we rarely see architecture on the big screen
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OpinionShould bad architecture be named and shamed?
Fat’s Sean Griffiths says that by denouncing bad buildings quality will improve, but Anna Liu argues this is a dangerous vehicle for biased criticism
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OpinionTrue vision
David Nixon’s article (News Analysis July 17) is not only well informed and relevant, but inserts a recent and precious vision of the future by Jan Kaplicky
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Tipping point
The contrast between BD articles “Adjaye brought to brink of insolvency” and “Gimme shelter” (News & Works July 24) could hardly have illustrated better the tipping point between the old world and the new order at which architecture finds itself
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Oakus pocus
So what exactly is so transformatory about Kevin McCloud’s new development (News July 24)?
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OpinionMasterplan for the future
Stirling has already swayed from its origins, so why not include masterplans?
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OpinionShould a masterplan be eligible for the Stirling?
David Page says academics need to open their eyes and look at the bigger picture, while Will Alsop is adamant that the Stirling Prize should be for a building