All Opinion articles – Page 226
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OpinionUnesco is right to be worried
I am delighted that Koïchiro Matsuura has visited Edinburgh and put brakes on the Caltongate project (News August 29).
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Public private
Boots has been keeping watch on the Public, the arts centre in West Bromwich designed by Will Alsop which has yet to receive a paying visitor!
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The secrets out
Well, blow me down! Now that English Heritage has to look again at its decision over Robin Hood Gardens, evidence has emerged that its boss, Simon Thurley, has never liked the building.
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Much to learn
Both Robert McGinnes (Letters August 8) and A Marsden (Letters 29) are slightly missing the point.
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Great Lakes
The Wordsworth Trust Centre may be the only modern building in Cumbria to grace your pages, (Works August 29) but it isn’t unique.
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OpinionThe real truth is: you are where you eat
Last week’s ‘fat map’ of Britain set a challenge for architects and planners
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OpinionDog dinner
Calling all hot dog lovers! Architects at CZWG are limbering up for a hot dog eating championship, happening during the interval of a drive-in screening of Pulp Fiction at Abergavenny Food Festival.
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Planning bypass
The planning process has become so lengthy, complicated and bureaucratic that unscrupulous developers have found an effective method of obtaining planning permissions. They simply ignore the planning system.
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OpinionTakes the biscuit
Do you have a Pedants’ Corner? The red double-decker bus in the Olympics closing ceremony was not a “trusty Routemaster” (Leader August 29) — if only! It was one of that latter-day variety classifiable as “biscuit tin”.
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OpinionAre architecture schools turning into factory farms?
The uniform teaching programme of many schools will create “tasteless chickens”, says Tim Ronalds; while Richard Hayward argues that schools remain almost entirely free-range
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OpinionDot to dot results: August 29
Last week’s competition winner was John G Ellis of Urban Design Solomon ETC in San Francisco, who identified Louis Kahn's Kimbell Art Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas.
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OpinionPlease ditch the mudslinging
Don’t let this autumn’s Le Corbusier and Palladio shows be used to settle old scores
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OpinionSo, who do we think we are?
London’s contribution to Beijing’s closing ceremony gave a confusing message
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Model students
Interesting to see Robert Aish migrating to Autodesk from Bentley, where he started GC parametric modelling, I believe (Practice: IT August 15).
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An open mind
Robert McGinnes (Letters August 8), you are correct — in only some of what you say.
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Language lesson
The Welsh School of Architecture is puffing out its chest after former student Bryony Shaw, who has put her degree on hold to concentrate on the sport, scooped a bronze medal in windsurfing at the Beijing Olympics last week.
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A tip for Kevin
From BD’s front page (News August 8), we find the lure of television used as another way to get architects to work “at risk” (for free).
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Stony greeting
Those behind the UK’s new Supreme Court — the Middlesex Guildhall on Parliament Square — are grappling with the question of public art.
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Feeling the pain
More than 5,000 experts congregated at Glasgow's Scottish Exhibition & Conference Centre last week for an event that can hardly have been the most cheerful in town.