All Opinion articles – Page 214
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Crack force
Delicate repairs have been made this week to the glass roof of Norman Foster’s huge greenhouse, the National Botanic Garden of Wales, two and a half years after one of the 785 panes rather mysteriously cracked.
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Corrections
AOC teaches at London Metropolitan University, not Leeds, as stated in Debate, December 5.
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OpinionChipping in
Boots was delighted to be invited to Pringle Brandon’s Christmas “Champagne & Chips” party, but dismayed to find it was on December 23.
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OpinionCard sharps
A fine crop of Christmas cards has arrived at BD Towers over the past few weeks.
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Set for blast-off
Countless heritage and archaeology bodies have given their views on the location for the Stonehenge visitor centre, and the Council for British Archaeology for one isn’t letting boring old pragmatism get in the way.
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OpinionDid 2008 spell the end of gratuitous shape-making in architecture?
Yes, and good riddance, says Malcolm Fraser, but the Victorian Society’s David Garrard sees no sign of the artistry disappearing
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OpinionBeware the perils of merrymaking
Don’t let your Christmas party get out of hand. Lawyer Patrick Perry tells you how to avoid letting a seasonal bash become a legal minefield
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Walled off
Herzog & de Meuron’s Tenerife Arts Space (bdonline November 5) is a site plan/masterplan for a vast area turned into an axonometric.
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OpinionTunnel vision
Talking to Boots this week about the long-running saga of Stonehenge’s visitor facilities, inspiration struck Lib Dem Lembit Opik for a stunt designed to win support for the abandoned £500 million road tunnelling scheme.
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Whats the story?
While Cabe’s press team may be slightly more approachable, it doesn’t come cheap.
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No question
Your interview with Roger Hawkins does not seem to answer the fundamental question as to why London’s squares need pedestrianising at all.
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Home truths
Is architecture losing its edge? Boots eagerly scanned the 2009 edition of Who’s Who for architect entries to find out, among other things, what they list as their interests.
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OpinionLocal heroes
May I add my voice to that of Ealing Council’s Gavin Leonard (Letters December 5) in extolling the virtues of the local authority in-house architecture department
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Goodbye Lenin
The Olympic Delivery Authority publicity machine is never slow to counter negative stories or to allow even the tiniest piece of Olympic-related progress to pass without fanfare.
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Flexible friend
In my search for architectural work I followed the advice of David Gloster and others (Analysis October 24)
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Eastern promise
Architecture, landscape and urban design practice East continues to display an amazing knack of winning work from London government.
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No call for change
Parliament Square (Solutions December 5) is already a very fine pedestrian space, skilful in its design, masterplan and detailed elements
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OpinionTrapped between ego and blandness
Totalitarian architectural monuments or toadying to heritage? The choice is yours
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OpinionBad time for a nationalist split
The Scots’ desire to break away from centres of power in England could unleash multiple problems at a sensitive time