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Bootleg bikers
Straight after performing live at Architecture Rocks at London’s Bloomsbury Ballroom tonight (Friday), two of the Bootleg Lilos will load up drum kit and guitars to set off for their next gig at the Wickerman Festival in Dumfries & Galloway, where they’ll be warming up for Gary Newman and KT ...
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OpinionIs Banksy a better role model?
RMJM’s offer of £1 million to help turn street graffiti artists into architects is well meant and generous, but is it really helpful?
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OpinionBlame it on the Arts Council
Ellis Woodman’s review of The Public in West Bromwich (Works July 4) fails to appreciate the main aspiration of the project: digital art and art in general as a catalyst for economic, urban and cultural regeneration.
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OpinionCalled to account
ODA chief executive David Higgins is rightly concerned with the bottom line, but surely his toast to the Worshipful Company of Chartered Architects’ dinner in the City of London last week went a little too far.
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OpinionShould the Skylon be rebuilt 60 years after the original?
Yes, it was an important and beautiful icon says Jack Pringle, but writer and blogger Owen Hatherley says the politics are all wrong
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In the swing
Your report (News July 4) on the RIBA Trust/Intelligence2 Debate event which proposed “modern architecture is still all glass stumps are carbuncles” did not record the real point in the voting.
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Tell your story
Since St Christopher’s Hospice opened in Sydenham in 1967, more than 250 others have been established. Some claim the modern hospice is a new building type.
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Out of touch
RIBA president Sunand Prasad and the architectural elite, including BD, have again shown themselves to be out of touch with a significant proportion of the RIBA and Arb membership, as well as an overwhelming majority of the British public, in their continuing campaign to have Robin Hood Gardens listed (News ...
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Slow motion
The failure of International Union of Architects’ (UIA) representatives to propose a motion to censure Israel for breaches of its professional and ethical charter, and the country’s well documented flouting of international law is like Africa’s reluctance to criticise Mugabe.
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OpinionParker Morris needs updating
Three cheers for “Boris pledges to reinstate Parker Morris standards” (News June 27).
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Jilted John
To Northumbria, where the National Trust is campaigning to restore Seaton Delaval Hall.
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Howe’s that?
Boots may in the past have suggested that Sunand Prasad was less than forthright in his views, but never underestimate the quiet man of Portland Place.
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OpinionFrank speaking
Boots hears that, freshly flown in from sunny California, Frank Gehry was in no mood to make life easy at the press unveiling of his Serpentine pavilion.
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Poor defence
BD’s increasingly frantic campaign to halt the demolition of Robin Hood Gardens does a disservice to the reputation of architects in the eyes of the public, which sees it as the archetypal 1960s ugly concrete monstrosity.
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OpinionDeath toll
The London Architecture Festival’s Greening Bays competition last week, organised by Ramboll Whitbybird, showcased 14 “intervention” designs for a parking space to provoke discussion on the space given up to motors in our cities.
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Social contract
In a 1974 article in Architectural Design entitled The violent consumer, Alison Smithson queried the wisdom of basing socialist ideals on the values of the English middle class. Do we have a choice?
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Chips is off
A new café developed by Jane Wood and Sophie Murray, respectively wife and daughter of LFA director Peter, opens in Littlehampton this month to much anticipation.
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OpinionIs BSF transforming the standard of school design?
Yes, if education authorities have vision, says Robert Firth; not while delivery is through the private sector, counters Dominic Cullinan
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OpinionTowers set the test for Boris
Mayor Johnson’s reaction to the proposed high-rise cluster of towers in Shoreditch will give an early indication of his real vision for London