All Opinion articles – Page 219
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Alien world
For much of last Friday’s Poundbury Supercrit, Leon Krier gave a convincing impression of someone who lives in the real world.
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OpinionAdjaye must see this through
The Stephen Lawrence Centre is beset with problems, but with its architect’s help it can still be the inspiration it was intended to be
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OpinionWay-out Westfield is about cashing in
Glitzy Westfield, in contrastingly bleak Shepherd’s Bush, is a surreal monument to capitalism
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OpinionKitchens big enough to cook in – is it too much to ask?
From House to Home, a major conference for housebuilders, policymakers and sociologists is on November 20-21. Here, Prue Leith, cookery doyenne, discusses the bad effects poor design has on our lives
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Turned on...
A sleepy Saturday morning audience at the RIBA conference in Barcelona last weekend was suddenly jolted wide awake by Dutch legend Herman Hertzberger.
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OpinionTuned in...
Fresh from her recent fashion collaboration with Lacoste, for whom she is designing some shoes, Zaha Hadid is now turning her attention to Bach — or more precisely to a room for listening to Bach — for next year’s Manchester International Festival.
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OpinionRay of light
Madonna’s divorce from British film director Guy Ritchie may be splashed all over the papers but at least the queen of pop now has architecture to take her mind off it all.
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Late intervention
The Kensington & Chelsea Exhibition Road photo montage (Letters October 24) indicates wall-to-wall paving of an area equal to Parliament Square.
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OpinionGetting the hump
Following the selection of the winner of the Weston-super-Mare pier competition by the fashionably democratic X Factor, Strictly ad nauseum process (News October 24), I note the “plans” have to be approved by six assorted “authorities”. Only six?
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Empty prospects
With a downturn on new-builds, is it not time to start working on the empty properties around the UK? It would certainly provide employment for many of our smaller partnerships.
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Dropped out
BD’s Carbuncle Cup prides itself on stirring up debate about the quality of Britain’s built environment, but could it have more far-reaching effects?
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OpinionWe did have a big idea for China
Contrary to your front page report (October 24) that Casson Mann “failed to come up with a big idea”, together with Heatherwick’s, Casson Mann did have a big idea for the content of the pavilion. Together we pitched with it, won the pitch with it, and the client approved it.
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OpinionWill moving really be better?
The Design Museum may appear to be a white knight come to save the Commonwealth Institute building, but is it just a vanity project with no real purpose?
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OpinionCorporate educators are bad business
Designers love Westminster Academy, but is what’s going on inside really such a good idea?
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OpinionCan the public be trusted to choose the best architecture?
Yes, if it means it suits the purpose, says Grand Designs producer Charlie Bunce, but George Ferguson fears it sees too little of the whole concept to judge
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Act in haste...
Experience tells me the government should not speed up school building (Debate October 24).
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Step on it
Is it really acceptable to design a viewing platform (Solutions October 17) reached by stair with no lift access?