All Opinion articles – Page 222
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OpinionA green New Deal can tackle depression
Looming financial disaster might have unexpected social and environmental benefits
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Critical eye
It was a pleasure to read that William Curtis (Letters September 26) regards Oscar Niemeyer as “a major figure of Latin American and world architecture”.
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Cracked record
I have been an architect for about 20 years (feels like more) and the debate about Arb, its purpose and its value for money remains unchanged.
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Correction
Last week’s Carbuncle Cup story wrongly named Tektus Architects as the designer of Walton Street car park.
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OpinionCruise control
Tom Cruise, below, is hiring Dubai’s newest aqua hotel, Atlantis on the Palm Jumeirah, for New Year’s Eve, Boots hears.
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Class struggle
Yasmin Shariff should ask herself why the ratio of women in law and medicine is at 50% (Debate October 3).
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OpinionOur carbuncles are too common
Amanda Baillieu observes that the architecture most people still get in their towns is, to paraphrase her inelegantly, crap (Leader October 3).
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Is the UK’s house-building model bust beyond repair?
Yes, says Tim Williams, the model was not producing enough homes even before the credit crunch; while John Slaughter argues that it was on a trajectory to deliver more
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Overthrow Arb
Architects have fallen under the heel and dictatorship of Arb, which is a government quango, the majority of its members being non-architects.
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No style
With reference to your web video “Adam hails start of a classical revolution — traditional architecture prospers as New Palladians exhibition launches”, and several other recent articles in the architectural and national press, I would like to register my objection to the way the modern classical stylists have started appropriating ...
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Sensible savings
Jack Pringle and Amanda Baillieu are critical of Arb for having substantial reserves in the bank.
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Playing politics
I was horrified to read in BD last week of Arb’s plans to examine the replacement of elected architect members with those appointed by the government.
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OpinionSlice of life
Forget GLA scrutiny, the litmus test for Boris’s first five months came with a gastronomic show-down with his predecessor.
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On the job
Thanks for the half-term report (News Analysis September 19) and the headteacher’s note in the leader. I quite agree that it is among UK architects that perception of the RIBA is hard to shift.
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OpinionStirling masks the real issues
The Stirling Prize is great... but the man in the street wants quality public buildings, and architects must take responsibility
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Going west
Never let it be said that shadow culture minister Ed Vaizey is afraid of upsetting developers.
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Waste free
It is right to raise the retention fee increase as a matter of concern but wrong to suggest that Arb is on a spending spree.
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OpinionJoin the transition from fear to hope
As peak oil and climate change threaten our way of life, transition towns look to the future
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It's in the fabric
Renzo Piano’s San Francisco California Academy of Sciences has given a new meaning to rooting design in the environment.