All Opinion articles – Page 236
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OpinionOn thin ice
The Architecture Foundation is to leave trendy Clerkenwell for the more establishment surroundings of Somerset House, whose courtyard boasts a popular open-air ice rink in winter and fountains in summer.
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Get out of town
Amanda Baillieu misses the point (Leader May 30). Ruth Reed’s comments on the regions reflect her time as RIBA vice president, membership, trudging around the UK listening to members.
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OpinionDesign wobble
Update from Boots’ Jelly Watch team: an eclectic shortlist has been unveiled in the great Architectural Jelly Design Competition, part of the London Festival of Architecture.
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Life and death
RIBA prez Sunand Prasad was involved in a pretty serious debate last week on whether “design really can save your life”.
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Correction
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands designed Harvey Nichols’ restaurants and food halls in Manchester and Edinburgh, not at its Leeds and Edinburgh branches as stated in “Dramatic overheads” (BD Magazine Retail May 2008).
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OpinionAre developers ignoring the threat of climate change?
Of course they are, says Cabe campaigns director Matt Bell, but Andrew Teacher from the British Property Federation sees a rapidly growing commitment to sustainable design
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Easily bought
Hundreds have marched, and more than a 1,500 signed a petition against Lyons Sleeman Hoare’s proposed new Tesco development in Hadleigh, Suffolk.
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Blind spot
I was going to launch a staunch defence of Neil Spiller (Letters May 30) and the work of the Avatar group.
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OpinionGet off the couch and fight this blight
An insidious force is stalking the built environment in an effort to undermine architects
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Pathetic award
The South Bank Centre stuck a plinth of glass-fronted shops onto a very special grade I modernist London landmark, the Royal Festival Hall, and got a special RIBA public space award (News May 30).
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OpinionLondon agenda still dominates
Recent articles and viewpoints in BD on the centralisation of the RIBA raise a very important issue which has been disappointingly covered so far.
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Principled stand
Good to see that Arb isn’t shying away from the big issues of the day. On the agenda at last week’s board meeting: should Arb continue its historical policy of not using the RIBA’s headquarters for meetings?
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OpinionStaying power
Perhaps the question raised in your news story should be not so much: “Why are the Australians going home and leaving us in the lurch?” but rather: “Why are we reliant on Australians in the first place, and what can we do to encourage them to stay?”
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Out of this world
I knew architectural education was bad but I didn’t really appreciate how far down the plughole it had gone until I read the barely intelligible cyberbabble nonsense by Neil Spiller (IT May 16).
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OpinionAn Obama win is a monumental need
Chicago’s unsung Hyde Park area has an interest in seeing a president Obama
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Local heroes
Of course Amanda Baillieu in her leader (May 23) is right to take apart the pitiful mess the planning system is in. However, she oversteps the mark when she pillories all local politicians.
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OpinionProvincial power does exist
Ruth Reed’s regional moan is out of date: government devolution and technology have bestowed a different power outside London
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Kindest cuts
In his column on architects’ autobiographies (May 16), Jonathan Glancey suggests that George Gilbert Scott Jr “edited out what must have been all the really good bits” from Sir Gilbert’s Personal and Professional Recollections.