All Opinion articles – Page 237
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Hue and cry
Writing about postwar housing in last week’s Regeneration & Renewal magazine, Urban Splash’s Nick Johnson said he “remained unmoved by the recent furore in architectural circles over Robin Hood Gardens”...
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Yo, cobber
Strewth, mates, the blinkin’ Poms have only gone and sprung Canberra’s plans to make their country even more crook!
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OpinionClassic case
Boots hears that next month’s spanking new London Architecture Festival will be opened by mayor Boris Johnson. Bozza is certainly a catch but he will surely have to tone down his message.
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OpinionThis building has world value
I have written to Leicester University’s senior building surveyor Jim Whait to add my voice to those of my colleagues around the world who are deeply concerned about the threat to the Leicester Engineering Building designed by James Stirling and James Gowan.
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OpinionDoes the RIBA do enough for regional architects?
Former RIBA president George Ferguson is convinced that it does, but presidential hopeful Ruth Reed feels it fails to do enough
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OpinionCast adrift
Tuesday’s private view of Psycho Buildings at the Hayward was notable for one thing: queues.
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Stranger abroad
Foster & Partners’ Berlin office received an unexpected call recently from a confused English gentleman on a cycling holiday in southern Germany.
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Dot to dot results: 23 May 2008
The winner of last week’s competition was Eike Danz from Foster & Partners, who correctly identified the history faculty at Cambridge University by James Stirling.
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Reference points
Three points in Ellis Woodman’s review of Corpus Christi’s new Taylor Library (Works May 16) need clarification.
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Place in the sun
Despite BD's revelation that Norman Foster has moved to Switzerland, the architect and peer has been honoured at the patriotic Sun newspaper’s Britain’s Best 2008 awards, for “his ground-breaking designs around the world”.
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Master’s voice
Like Richard Rogers, I was “critted” by Peter Smithson at the AA in the fifties.
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OpinionParty lines
Boots was surprised not to see Terence Conran’s business partner Des Gunewardena at the Conran summer party last week, although the two are now moving in opposite directions.
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Labour pain
Richard Rogers’ increasingly political role is not to everyone’s liking if a recent profile in the New Statesman is anything to go by.
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Word in his ear
While rumours continue about who will get the job of advising mayor Boris on architecture, Boots reckons that informal tips may already be winging their way to Bozza from that master of minimalism John Pawson, who lives next door to the mayor’s sister Rachel!
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OpinionCreativity is part of sustainability
Pooran Desai’s excellent contribution to your debate on sustainability (May 9) was concise and clear. Designing a building that requires minimum energy, water, and damage to the environment while giving maximum comfort and a more “natural” ambience is obviously creative. If journo-miserablist Austin Williams wants to attack the factors ...
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OpinionCounter culture
Margaret Hodge has listed two branches of Kennedy’s, the 140-year-old chain of butcher shops in south London, where she grew up, for their fashionable art deco features such as polished glass signs, granite stallrisers, sunburst transom lights, and original green and yellow tiled walls with marble counters, wooden cabinets and ...
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Contracts cost
Your coverage of the RIBA and ACA row over forms of contract (News May 9), makes some excellent points but fails to note the issue of cost.
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OpinionWe must break out of this prison cycle
Prisons don’t work — it’s been shown time and again. So why do we keep building them?
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OpinionHas EH bowed to political pressure on Robin Hood?
Commissioners feared the reaction if they supported listing says Catherine Croft, director of the Twentieth Century Society; no, this building just doesn’t make the grade, argues EH chairman Sandy Bruce-Lockhart