All Opinion articles – Page 242
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Windsor abuses
Marcus Fairs’ experience (Opinion April 11) is nothing! The problem with unapproved developments being built is becoming endemic and the failure to enforce unpalatable conditions is rife.
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OpinionDot to Dot results: April 11
The winner of last week’s competition was Mark Exon, who works at Wilkinson Eyre in London.
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Stone timebomb
We in Liverpool now await the battle for the exterior finish on what was supposed to be the flagship icon of Liverpool’s Capital of Culture 2008, the Museum of Liverpool (Solutions April 4).
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OpinionHi-tech by name, inefficient by nature
The Terminal 5 meltdown adds to evidence that hi-tech is not an appropriate style for airports
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Flawed space
I want to defend Hackney Council’s planning authority from Marcus Fair’s unprecedented attack.
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Olympic flat
Such are the spiralling costs of the planned 2012 Olympics, it’s no wonder, perhaps, that there’s no spare cash for a visitors centre and a site model which would help explain to the public what all its money is actually being spent on —currently visitors to the site are entertained ...
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OpinionEmpty promise
The seven architects shortlisted for the Birmingham library/theatre project in Centenary Square (News April 4) would be well advised to take the grand promises of the the city council’s leader, Mike Whitby, with a pinch of salt.
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Hackney defence
Marcus Fairs (Opinion April 4) shows a worrying lack of understanding of planning or planning enforcement.
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OpinionDesert dasher
Trainee architect and marathon man James Quigley, who last week ran the toughest race on the world — a 156-mile, week-long dash across the Sahara — was the 181st runner out of 891 to cross the finish line, raising £2,748.01 for the Maggie’s Centre charity in the process.
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OpinionA concrete proposal
After attending Rick Mather’s Concrete Elegance talk on his work at Eastbourne at the Building Centre in London, I couldn’t help but feel that the Concrete Centre may be barking up the wrong tree, because events like this are pitched to architects, not contractors — who are arguably the main ...
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Fee circus
Further to Boots’ disclosure last month of Anish Kapoor’s plans to build an OMA-designed holiday house in the Bahamas, word reaches us of Rem Koolhaas’s novel fee proposal.
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Broad church
Readers unacquainted with the life of famed gay DJ Tallulah, who died last month, would do well to investigate the lengthy interview with him at www.djhistory.com .
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OpinionBadge of honour
Just arrived at BD Towers is this season’s must-have accessory, the limited edition Rescue Robin Hood Gardens badge.
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OpinionAn adviser Brown won’t want
Given Labour’s track record on architecture, why would they create a chief adviser?
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OpinionDoes government need a chief architect to advise it?
Yes, says shadow culture minister Ed Vaizey; no, says Robert Adam, who thinks it an undemocratic and dangerous idea
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OpinionDot to Dot results: April 4
Last week’s competition winner is Lise Rose of Wiles & Maguire in York, who identified the Guggenheim in Bilbao by Frank Gehry.
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Olympic gold
Verdicts from the joint Cabe and Design for London panel on the first five major Olympic projects (News March 28) demonstrate how far the architecture of the 2012 games has come in a year.
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OpinionGive it some jelly
Leading architects including Rogers Stirk Harbour, Grimshaw and Make are limbering up for their toughest (or should that be softest?) contest yet.
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Point the finger
At what stage of the design process for Heathrow Terminal 5 did Rogers Stirk Harbour and its client consider that fingerprinting the travelling public was an acceptable solution to a design problem?
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Fight not flight
A building itself might not be political, but surely organising our cities and public urban spaces is a social act and therefore political.