All Opinion articles – Page 221
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Festival spirit
Allies & Morrison would have been well prepared for its moment of glory had it won on Saturday night.
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Doom street
“Pot calling the kettle black” is the phrase that springs to mind when Iain Tuckett, group director of Coin Street Community Builders, levels criticism at the willingness of English Heritage to consider legal action over Doon Street (News October 3) and the expense this necessarily involves.
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Make it clear
I was disturbed to read about another supposed eco-house (News October 3) which seems to disregard environmental considerations with a totally clear four-storey glazed facade.
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OpinionA bright side to dark times
Rather than give in to the economic gloom, architects can shape up for the future
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OpinionWhat now – the bunker or the bike?
Never mind weeping and wailing — how are you going to get through the meltdown?
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OpinionRing my bell
Zaha Hadid has wisely stopped turning up to the Stirling Prize having lost out twice, but had a presence of sorts on Saturday night when she rang her friend and judge Eva Jiricna to find out if it was third time lucky.
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Standard bearer
I qualified in 1956 and ever since I can remember, architects have been in despair over the standards of design of our housing stock.
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Back to honesty
Now we all know that we’ve been living a dream as opposed to living the dream since the turn of the century, maybe it’s an opportune time for architecture to exorcise its own ghosts of the recent past?
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After fort
Finally, big congratulations to Ken Shuttleworth and Clare Dexter, the ever-helpful press officer at HOK International, on the occasion of their marriage.
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OpinionCan Accordia really be a blueprint for housing?
Yes, says Keith Bradley one of the Stirling-Prize-winning development’s architects; but Alan Cherry, of the scheme’s developer Countryside Properties, disagrees
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OpinionDot to dot results: October 10
The winner of last week’s competition was Amanda de Lussey of Faulkner Browns’ Newcastle office, who identified Fumihiko Maki’s Spiral House in Tokyo.
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OpinionTowers as old as building itself
Towers have been around for thousands of years. Which means we can certainly critique the current batch
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Victorian values
Your survey of the legacy of past periods of housing (Front page October 3) provides some important lessons.
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OpinionToast of the town
Boots was delighted to see Future Systems’ Selfridges in Birmingham has a starring role in a series of ads for north of England baker Warburton’s.
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Tangled web
Boots hopes Deborah Saunt’s burgeoning celebrity status hasn’t gone to her head.
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Talk the walk
Architects who ran over time at this week’s Cityscape conference in Dubai met their match in Ken Livingstone.
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OpinionTough times need ingenuity
The housing and architecture ministers are taking the reins at a testing moment
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Not so grim
Speaking of which, Grimshaw’s US office in Manhattan is also shrugging off the extraordinary financial meltdown in nearby Wall Street.
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OpinionExpensive & dull
If a brief were given to design the most boring and expensive public square, the recent proposal for Parliament Square would surely have been the result.