All Opinion articles – Page 204
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A new start for conservation
Your invited columnists debating a new conservation register (Debate April 3) should have delved a little deeper, on two grounds.
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OpinionChanging gear
How busted am I? I knew that photograph (Archive April 3) would come back to haunt me.
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Brought to book
Clive Dutton (News April 3) is clearly delighted that the councillors who employ him have “given” him £200 million to gamble on his pet property-led regeneration scheme.
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OpinionBattle lines draw at the Bartlett
Both the Bartlett and the RIBA are in the hunt to fill top posts, while could Mecanoo’s Birmingham Library proposals prove as controversial as Jan Kaplicky’s for Prague?
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OpinionMake more of the year out
The latest call from the Association of Consultant Architects to “relax work experience rules” (News March 20) came as no surprise. As a part I student myself, I strongly feel that what needs to be altered is not the necessity of a year out, which to my mind is indubitably ...
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Ode to joy
Thank you, Jonathan Glancey, for bringing up a worthwhile but neglected issue (Whatever happened to craft? March 27)
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Suburb hubbub
I am an architect, and a resident of Hampstead Garden Suburb. Boots (March 27) might like to know that there was a presentation by Hopkins on March 24, some nine months too late, without a single three-dimensional drawing to show the new blocks from Central Square or the flanking roads ...
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OpinionThe shining: a modern horror story
The new wave of energy-efficient lightbulbs is enough to bring out the axeman in anyone
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RIBA: get real
I have followed your raging debate about Arb and the RIBA. I even wrote to the minister two years ago, imploring her to resist the RIBA’s efforts to take over Arb’s functions, and I made sure that I didn’t vote for a Reform Group candidate
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Fount of wisdom
Last Sunday, I cycled past Centre Point and was saddened to see the pool and fountains dry and hoarded-off, ready for demolition
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Correction
In last week’s front page story (“Lifeline for arts projects”) Haworth Tompkins and director Steve Tompkins were incorrectly spelt as Tomkins
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Computer craft
Like it or not, computers are here to stay (Whatever happened to craft? March 27), so the issue is how computing-based design can achieve a more sensual quality rather than a default abandonment of how architecture has been practiced for the past two decades or so.
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OpinionSeventies wallpaper makes a comeback in Birmingham
Why bother hiring a world-class architect to design your new library when you can simply cover a few very large boxes with a classic wallpaper design from the seventies?
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OpinionPrince is back for seconds
Sustainability is likely to be the target of Prince Charles’s RIBA speech next month, but architects can’t expect an easy ride
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OpinionWren's template for austerity
Tough times don’t necessarily mean inferior architecture. Just look at what Wren produced for the City of London on a shoestring
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OpinionShould the RIBA introduce a register for conservation architects?
Yes, says Purcell Miller Tritton’s Jeremy Blake, because architects need professional benchmarks as much as any other group; no, says Stirling Prize winner Stephen Hodder, we need communities of knowledge, not individual registrations
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OpinionThe third way
It has occurred to me that architects visiting London might be mildly surprised to see Palladio and Le Corbusier’s names writ large on the side of buses and in the passages of the Underground
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Survey the scene
The recent healthy debate about the regulation of the profession (Letters passim) poses difficulties in moving forward where none need exist