All Opinion articles – Page 196
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Correction
Flacq was accidentally left out of the list of architects involved in the winning bid to regenerate Canning Town (News July 3).
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OpinionCrystal clear hypocrisy
While speaking sternly against fee cutting, the RIBA has picked a Stirling Prize sponsor that undercuts its own members
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OpinionNot so thrilled by car park
It is unfortunate that the undoubted aesthetic value of the “Get Carter” car park expounded by Owen Hatherley (Urban Trawl June 26) is not balanced by the also undoubted irrelevance to modern retail and the community who live and shop beneath its “dismally thrilling” concrete
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OpinionDoes the organisation of the Arts Council need a rethink?
No says former board member Elsie Owusus, there is nothing fundamentally wrong, yes says report author Marc Sidwell, a new arts settlement is needed.
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Recession aid
In response to your story on the RIBA’s services for members (News July 3) James Cooke and I provide the Managing in Recession service for RIBA
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OpinionA 4th plinth for architecture?
Could Trafalgar Square inspire us to experience the great buildings that never were?
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OpinionRIBA should look in, not out
The institute must decide whether its priority is empire-building or serving the needs of ordinary architects
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OpinionLove Liverpool
Barbara Follett must have had her mind on something else when she opined that “Liverpool was something of a culture-free zone before the European Capital of Culture 2008” (Boots June 19)
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Hang on in there
I graduated with my part II in 1991 during the last recession and after a desperate couple of years of unemployment found work as a cleaner in order to support my family and regain some dignity
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Outside edge
I was delighted to read about excluded student Aaron Collins going on to win a place on Kingston’s architecture degree course and then a major national award (News June 26)
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OpinionOlympics dissidents recant on video
Are the Beijing apparatchiks still pulling the Olympic strings? Boots wonders after a bevy of architectural bigwigs critical of Olympic design were frogmarched around the site last week and then allowed to repent for their dissident views by recording gushing messages for a London 2012 online video.
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Democracy myth
At the risk of prolonging the saga, I feel I have to respond to Stuart Heaton (Letters June 26)
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OpinionCrying out for local nourishment
New problems for dairy farmers highlight our failure to recognise the value of local economies
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OpinionEngineering is the real cost
If good architects are appointed early enough and can develop new station concepts with clever engineers, then there is always additional “value” in the design and very often significant cost savings
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Bury disinterred
Martin O’Shea’s reassurance (Letters June 26) that plants will grow all over the new Studio MGM building in Bury St Edmunds brings to mind that old dictum of Frank Lloyd Wright: “Doctors can bury their mistakes. Architects can only plant vines”
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OpinionDoes Crossrail have low design aspirations?
No, says Crossrail’s chairman Terry Morgan, we want to create a world-class railway; while Kenneth Powell argues that the scheme will suffer from lack of an architectural vision
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OpinionGothic is still alive — just
Will the addition to Westminster Abbey be a seamless part of the original fabric or a kitsch, whimsical flourish? Perhaps the last of the goths should lend a hand
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Corrections: 03 July 2009
Richard MacCormac reduced the length of Southwark station’s passenger tunnel by 16m, not 60m (News June 26), cutting the cost by £1.6 million.
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Shape shifter
Jonathan Glancey (June 19) seems to be perpetuating an urban myth. Does he really believe the plan of the NatWest Tower was based on the NatWest logo?