All Opinion articles – Page 210
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City limits
If wisdom comes with age, why are so many Brazilian architects up in arms over 101-year-old Oscar Niemeyer’s latest plans to alter Brasilia?
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OpinionBuilding with mud, glorious mud
Using mud to build may be an extreme example of giving preference to local materials, but if we don’t explore such options we are condemned to the banal
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Blind on bland
Steve Cooper says PFI projects might be rubbish or bland (Debate January 30), but that they are finished on time and within budget! Something of an own goal, I think.
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Don’t bank on it
At a time when we are all suffering from the effects of too little regulation, the public will wonder where the Arb Reform Group (Letters January 30) is coming from in wishing to follow the banking profession.
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ARG-umentative
The Arb Reform Group is not known to pull its punches in debates with appointed board members, but new recruit Ruth Brennan, who is standing for election to the board for the first time, managed to have a run-in with chief executive Alison Carr before the ballot papers were even ...
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Talking rubbish
How encouraging it was for us at the bottom of the architectural food chain to hear Richard Harrington, chairman of Nightingale Associates, describe ward refurbishments as “rubbish like that” (News January 16)
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Kudos is reward
Your headline “Stirling to drop prize money” (January 23) is misleading. The question of whether and how to fund a prize is being discussed — no decision has been made.
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OpinionIt’s potty
Word reaches Boots that DSDHA’s pavilion next to Tower Bridge is unlikely to survive the arrival of Squire & Partners’ Potters Fields development despite standing only a few months.
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OpinionThe house is a machine for learning
Architects’ quest to design mixed communities could benefit from looking at a group of Gallic militant lefties
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Is it time to scrap the Private Finance Initiative?
Definitely, says former RIBA president Jack Pringle, but Skanska director of education Steve Cooper believes architects have a great opportunity now.
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Title fight
It’s bad enough that there are so few jobs advertised for architects in the national, or any, press.
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Out for a duck
Determined to keep Test Match status, Warwickshire County Cricket Club is hoping to upgrade its Edgbaston ground.
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OpinionFlagged down
London mayor Boris Johnson and English Heritage have imposed a height restriction for the new US Embassy, to be sited in south-west London near Vauxhall.
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Untapped depths
Boots has been invited to some tenuous product launches in its time but not, until now, to the opening of a tap — even if it is designed by Zaha Hadid.
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Reform’s cool
Elections for the Arb board and executive are here again. In 2006, five of the 22 candidates seeking election to Arb’s seven architect places collected 70% of the profession’s votes
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Collecting can
Organisers of the charity Cycle to Cannes event have called for donations for this year’s 1,500km ride from London to Mipim as the recession has seen funding from commercial sponsorship halved.
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OpinionPFI chickens come home to roost
The unpopular procurement method is now proving an obstacle to the government’s plans to boost the economy