All Opinion articles – Page 227
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OpinionManhattan receives a special delivery
Five suburban houses in a New York parking lot can show us the future of prefabrication
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OpinionClosed memorial
It is rather surprising that the Royal Parks, which ran the design team competition for the 7/7 memorial, has accepted a design which one can “wander through” (News August 8).
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OpinionBathing machine
Swimming hats off to Ian Dungavell, whose epic swim in every listed Edwardian and Victorian pool in Britain — one length for each year they’ve been open — is to end today at Dulwich Leisure Centre.
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OpinionDon’t judge the RIBA awards
The RIBA awards are the most robust and rigorously judged in architecture.
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Trellick 2012
Still with the Olympics, fans of postwar British housing were given a treat during the London 2012 handover film at Beijing’s closing ceremony, with the surprise appearance of Erno Goldfinger’s Trellick Tower.
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OpinionDot to dot results: August 15
The winner of last issue’s competition was Malcolm Hay of Worcestershire County Council Property Services, who identified Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion House in Wichita, Kansas.
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OpinionShould Saarinen’s American Embassy building be listed?
Yes, says Docomomo’s Dennis Sharp, it’s well scaled and well weathered; no, says Westminster’s Robert Davis, it’s a mess inside, mediocre on the outside, and not historically important
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OpinionSilly season
Are the idle August days going to architects’ heads? First Boots hears reports that 5th Studio has been hanging about at Walthamstow dog track, scoffing chips and trying to win a bob or two.
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OpinionAn Olympic-sized mistake
Policy Exchange’s ideas on northern decline have a lot to say about prospects, but not a lot about people
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Knives are out
Meanwhile, Alsop’s latest designs in the Far East — a sales office for Raffles City and a shopping mall in Beijing — are causing a stir, and not in a good way.
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Web of intrigue
Is a chink appearing in the corporate armour of Swiss architect Herzog & de Meuron?
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Max happy
In response to last week’s story on Hab (News August 8), Max Fordham Consulting Engineers would like to state that we remain wholeheartedly committed to the Hab project and its ongoing effort to deliver innovative and sustainable designs to improve the quality of housebuilding in the UK.
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Eating disorder
From Carolyn Steel’s opinion piece on August 1, it sounds as if she and housing minister Caroline Flint would strike a few sparks.
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Social contract
Saul Metzstein is spot on about the corrosive effects of the media casually linking postwar architecture and crime (Opinion August 8).
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Poor class
It’s all very well for BD to rave about the “pigeon fanciers’ hangout in Sheffield” (Class of 2008, August 8), but you won’t have to clear up the crap.
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Chipping in
CZWG Architects has joined jelly-mould specialist Bompass & Parr on its latest design-led food caper.
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OpinionMcCloud: No chaos at Hab
I am writing to correct some of the points made in your news article and editorial about Hab Oakus LLP (News August 8).
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Brains trust
How very sad that architecture’s own Eeyore has encountered construction (“Kevin McCloud’s own ‘grand design’ in chaos”, News August 8).