All Opinion articles – Page 197
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OpinionJudge not lest you be judged, learns Sharp
It wasn’t just the British establishment who didn’t make the opening of Bernard Tschumi’s New Acropolis Museum in Athens last weekend.
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It’s an imposition
The first two objections to the Rogers Stirk Harbour scheme put forward by the Chelsea Barracks Action Group are that the scheme is too high and too dense
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OpinionDoes the disabled lobby have too great a say in planning?
Yes, the ‘shouting down’ brigade can be harmful, says Simon Allford; no, everyone is entitled to be safe in public, argues Steve Winyard
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OpinionA deficiency of democracy
I disagree strongly with your Leader (June 19). Surely the Qataris bought the Chelsea Barracks site first, with a view to obtaining a planning permission, and then second making a lot of money selling off their prestigious apartments.
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Dead on the slab
Amidst the burgeoning hubris of an architect spurned, your leader was most welcome, pointing out that the Chelsea Barracks scheme was probably heading for rejection by due democratic process
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OpinionDon’t let them nail Crossrail
The chairman of London’s new rail line needs to realise that design is not just an expensive add-on
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OpinionDon’t Bury it yet
Having seen Studio MGM’s timber-framed and clad apartments rise from a particularly drab corner of the Bury St Edmunds ring road over the past couple of years, I was aghast at John Henry Kneller Eborn’s prejudiced and ill-informed letter (June 19)
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OpinionCan Britain grin and share it?
One of the reasons I so respect Frank Pick (1878-1941), the legendary chief executive of the London Passenger Transport Board, is that he made common places shine.
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OpinionBerlusconi’s historical precedents
Bare breasts and buttocks are par for the course at any Roman leader’s retreat
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Barrier grief
While I think that shared spaces offer an improvement on the cluttered streets we tolerate, the thought that they exclude blind and partially sighted people makes me uneasy
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Bad education
Tim Ward’s letter (June 19) raised only one aspect of the architectural students’ woes. The other is that they leave their schools with a woefully inadequate education
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OpinionMousavi the architect
The Western world is gripped by the pictures, video footage and twitter correspondence still flooding out of Iran despite the ruling party’s best efforts to stem the flow - and in almost all of the sympathetic coverage, opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi has been described as an artist and architect.
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Help us fight fees
In response to the mass email issued by Sunand Prasad (News page 6), if the RIBA wishes to help smaller firms of architects and sole practitioners deal with the perpetual expectancy to carry out work on spec and partake in fee bidding, it should do something a bit more robust ...
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Unfair advantage
Richard Rogers’ call for a national inquiry into the prince’s constitutional role should be welcomed
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Bonny prince
I work with communities where the planners, architects and corporations they represent are riding roughshod over livelihoods and treasured environments
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OpinionRally to Rogers
It’s with no surprise that we read the people’s architect Prince Charles is single-handedly able to alter the course of one of the most important projects in London this decade
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OpinionWe can’t all run back to daddy
Recently your magazine, to my despair, has highlighted the snobbery of the architectural world (News June 12)
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Stuck on style
The discussion about a suitable architectural form for the expansion of Oxford University (Leader June 5) steps once again into the modernism versus traditionalism debate, which springs up in all historic and conservation environments