All Opinion articles – Page 213
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OpinionGlimmers of hope in the gloom
In uncertain times everyone has a prediction, but between the bad and the mad are some positive signs for architects
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Let’s get together
How disappointing that concerns over the RIBA fees increase led to calls for a break with the RIBA. (Letters December 19).
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OpinionFuture transport
Is it a toy? Is it the Olympic Village transport system? No, it’s the B-Bus, or Boris Bus, Future Systems’ proposed new London routemaster, which was beaten by Fosters’ entry in the mayor’s competition for a design to replace Ken Livingstone’s bendy buses.
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The F factor
When not handling Multiplex’s immense claim over Wembley Stadium, top City law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is focusing on other ways to combat the recession.
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OpinionGive Bush’s era the order of the boot
As the boom bursts, how best to commemorate the president who let this happen?
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Best laid plans...
Carolyn Steel’s Opinion piece (5 December) elucidated much of why local communities are often at odds with the planning process and feel marginalised by so-called regeneration schemes.
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Mote and beam
Michael Rasmussen (Letters December 19) uses such words as “disturbed”, “ill timed and insensitive”, “great offence”, “offensive”, “wave of resignations”, “cutting the common bond”. What dreadful act might justify such language?
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OpinionThe audacity of open architecture
Under the Bush presidency, the US has been erecting bunker-like embassy designs worldwide. With the inauguration of Obama, will the new US embassy in south London take a different tack?
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Women’s world
Good to see that former culture minister Margaret Hodge’s efforts to put more women in high-profile public cultural roles in beginning to bear fruit, with Liz Forgan named this week as the new — and first-ever female — chair of Arts Council England.
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Time to think
Carolyn Steel (Opinion December 5) raises an important question ignored for the past decade: how to improve derelict real estate and retain the community hub within it.
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Spec saver
Your front page coverage of the Good Homes Alliance’s critique of the Green Guide to Specification (News December 5) is not an accurate reflection of the development of the guide.
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OpinionNew year, new uncertainties
The problems of the economy may be making the government more responsive to its critics in other areas
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OpinionMore Thames than Mersey
Liverpool ought to have dominated the cultural year. As European City of Culture, it hosted its fair share of architectural events, chief among them the Stirling Prize. Biq’s Bluecoat arts centre opened its doors (it reopened them last week after a fire abruptly closed them in May).
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Never married
I am intrigued to know how a body which has been wholly independent for almost 100 years can be accused of “breaking away” and “separatism”?
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OpinionOffence will lose RIBA members
Last week I received a letter from the president of the RIAS outlining the RIBA’s intention to increase subscriptions by 3% and asking for the views of the profession in Scotland. I am not in favour.
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OpinionLegend of Utzon sails into the sunset
The saga of Jørn Utzon’s greatest legacy is part myth, part Bergman epic
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OpinionMobile homes we could live with
Harvard and BMW are collaborating on an innovative housing project to use the principles of car design — just in time for Christmas
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On good terms
Your article, “RIBA fees hike sparks threat of RIAS divorce” (December 12), could bear some clarification.
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OpinionShould London’s Olympic stadium be an iconic design?
Yes, says Will Alsop, the stadium is the image of the Olympics that millions will see, but Graham Morrison and Bob Allies believe this design fulfills a wider and more complex legacy role