All Opinion articles – Page 230
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Party politics
Boots is putting on her dancing shoes next Saturday and heading for Birmingham’s Botanical Gardens to join staff and students, past and present, from the city’s architecture school in celebrating its centenary year
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OpinionOut on the town
The Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment has been asked to advise on the design of an eco-town near Nottingham, but is chief exec Hank Dittmar fully on-message?
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OpinionWhy nothing’s as simple as it seems
What do the US gun lobby and Buckminster Fuller have in common?
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Marathon man
The Victorian Society hopes to make a splash with its campaign to highlight the remaining 13 working and listed Victorian and Edwardian swimming pools in England.
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OpinionDid the festival miss a trick?
This year’s London Festival of Architecture was great fun and a huge achievement, but it could have had a clearer message
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Cunning plan
In the light of the RIBA report on planning, is it time to run a regular feature on planning nightmares — nominate your worst local planning authority and so on.
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OpinionIdentity crisis
Jacques Herzog may be one of the world’s most famous architects, but Tate Modern press officers are struggling to recognise him.
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Concrete division
Anne Power (Opinion July 4) gives a clear, intelligent summary of the issues surrounding post-war public housing — thought-provoking and so relevant!
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OpinionDo we care who wins this year’s Stirling Prize?
Of course, it’s important, says double winner and Wilkinson Eyre director Chris Wilkinson, but Mantownhuman’s Alistair Donald laments the conformism the prize represents
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OpinionSkills for BSF schools are here
“Architects blamed for unsustainable schools” shouts your headline (News July 18)
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Brutal truth
Lurking beneath Celia Clarke’s plea to reuse buildings (Letters July 18) was yet another cry for more respect for sixties buildings by exponents such as Gillespie Kidd & Coia, Owen Luder, Chalk Herron and others whose raw concrete aesthetic set up a public distaste for we architects.
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Broken greens
While it is encouraging to see the industry delivering more sustainable buildings, confusion exists over how green building credentials are rated.
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Us and them
Abe Hayeem (Letters July 11) would have liked the UIA to “censure” the Israel Institute of Architects at Turin, drawing odious comparisons with Mugabe.
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Terse verse
Following BD’s front page exclusive last week, diners at a fundraiser on Tuesday for the Save Shoreditch campaign were treated to a rip-roaring rallying cry of a ditty by East End bard Patrick Hughes.
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Protest singer
The summer seems to have barely begun but already the silly season has arrived for national newspaper stories about architecture.
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PM’s questions
News that Boris Johnson is to reinstate Parker Morris housing space standards in London (News July 4) is welcome.
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OpinionUnfit objection
In 2004 English Heritage failed to list to list the much missed Tricorn Centre in Portsmouth, designed in 1962 by the Owen Luder Partnership, using the same “not fit for purpose” argument as it employed on Robin Hood Gardens (News July 4).
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OpinionThings to ponder on the sun lounger
HMSO can offer some different holiday reading, but its plot lines and endings will let you down
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No taste of honey
Did anyone catch the London Architecture Festival’s so-called “Royal Festival Hive” last weekend, Boots wonders?