All Opinion articles – Page 203
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OpinionChelsea Barracks row picked up stateside
Time magazine’s take on the royal row, plus Learning from Bob and Denise, Robin Hood Gardens, love and hate with Valerio Olgiati
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OpinionSage of Shepperton slips away
JG Ballard, who died earlier this week, took on modern architecture in his stories more than once — and the power of his work was such that his fictions have become our reality
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OpinionAbsolution ain’t a modern solution
Consultants can no longer rely on papal mercy when projects bust their budgets big time
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OpinionSurface tension
Your recent article on Nottingham (Urban Trawl April 3) seeks to judge the city in terms of design. As usual, the emphasis is solely on visual quality and interest
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Selective views
Your correspondent has misquoted me in his article about Southwark towers (News April 9)
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Internal logic
I read Peter Wilson’s description of Malcolm Fraser’s work in Berwick-upon-Tweed (Works April 9) and noted his assertion that “Clearly a great deal of thought has gone into the internal planning”
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Hardest route
Regarding the debate on professional status, registration, title etc, whatever one’s view, it seems particularly unfair on those architects who qualified the “hard” way
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OpinionWould a Tory government be good for housing?
Yes, if it abolished the current planning system, says the RIBA’s Jan Maciag; no says Peter Barber, the Tories’ green paper is too ideologically cautious
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OpinionDon't make museums for morons
Pringle Richards Sharratt Architects’ refurbishment of Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum evades the vogue for dumbing down our cultural wonders
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No need to delist
The delisting of Colin St John Wilson’s Hereford house (Letters 27 March) leads me to the conclusion that in any future listed building legislation, delisting should cease or be much more restricted
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Conserving skills
As every architect who has some experience of practice will acknowledge, RIBA membership, Arb registration, and the membership of any professional institute by no means guarantees design ability. Neither of course does AABC membership ensure that an accredited conservation architect has design ability
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No platform for Prince Charles
Why has the RIBA decided to invite the Prince of Wales back to deliver the RIBA Trust lecture (Debate April 9), trailed as though this is some major RIBA coup?
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OpinionChanging with the times
BD must now become a paid-for title to continue to offer the standards of journalism you expect
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OpinionTime to face up to the brutalist truth
Channel 4’s Red Riding trilogy suggested a different way of looking at the post-war city
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OpinionPutting the boot in at Chelsea
The fallout continues over HRH’s intervention on Roger’s Barracks scheme, plus novel career moves for the unemployed architect: private eye, Gladiator...
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Into the light
Maybe Bill Mitchell (Opinion April 3) needs to get his compact fluorescent lightbulbs from somewhere other than his local supermarket?
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OpinionThe wrong skills for the job
Restricting conservation work to those on a specialist register could stop buildings having the best viable future
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OpinionHigh society and low taste
As the Prince of Wales gears up for a rematch with the RIBA, what kind of architectural delights came to fruit after his Hampton Court speech 25 years ago?
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OpinionMetal gurus
Mecanoo claims on its website that the facade of the proposed Birmingham Library (News April 3) is a “delicate metal filigree, inspired by the rich and proud history of this former industrial city with a tradition of craftsmanship”.
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OpinionWe have strayed too far from the flock
Our reactions to the G20 and ambivalence to rural life are symptoms of a wider dislocation