All Opinion articles – Page 246
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Snack happy
Perusing Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich’s plans turn the former Pakistan Embassy in Kensington into a palatial £150 million residence by classicist John Simpson Architects, Boots notes that as well as swimming pool, cinema, and eight bedrooms, it will have kitchenettes on the upper floors.
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Great teamwork
Peter Wilson (Letters April 25) quotes Lord Fraser in support of your claim that the Scottish Parliament Team was dysfunctional and that this added to costs and delays.
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Liverpool cares
In your front page story “EH acts to save historic buildings in Liverpool” (News March 20), you write that English Heritage has “toughened its stance in recent months”, and that Liverpool has been “shamed into action”.
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Star bucks
As BD went to press, the future of the mayoral architectural adviser Richard Rogers was unclear.
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OpinionRed mist over the Beijing Olympics
Attempts by politicians to bask in the glow of the Olympic flame always end in tears
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OpinionPrince asks questions of China
Prince Charles is trying positive engagement to influence China’s heritage, but will it help make up for snubbing the Games?
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OpinionAre today’s engineers the new architects?
Yes, says Peter Sharratt, director at WSP, if we want to meet the challenges of sustainability; no, says Sheppard Robson’s Alan Shingler, because one solves problems, the other adds beauty
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OpinionAfter Robin Hood Gardens: help Bishopsfield too
A letter to BD from Bishopsfield residents group highlights the threat to Neylan and Ungless's 1960's estate
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OpinionDot to dot results: April 25
The winner of last week’s competition was Silvanos Goyea of BDP, Sheffield, who identified Villa Tugendhat in the Czech Republic by Mies van der Rohe.
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Be transparent
Further to Renzo Piano’s comments on the RIBA/Home Office workshops (News April 18), it has been erroneously reported that these and guidance encourage the creation of no-go urban fortresses.
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OpinionSweat and tears
I was startled to see the photo used to illustrate the Debate on April 18. Captioned “Team working at Bennetts Associates”, it looked more like a call centre or dealing room.
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Word perfect
The rewriting of history is always interesting, but John Kinsley protests too much (Letters April 18) when seeking to chastise BD for describing the EMBT/RMJM joint venture on the Scottish Parliament building as dysfunctional.
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OpinionOut of the loop
“Good” can also come out of the dodgy wording of the General Permitted Developments Order (“Mockery of the planning system” Letters April 18).
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OpinionAre the mayor’s new planning powers good for London?
Definitely, says Brian Waters of the London Planning & Development Forum, but design and conservation consultant Richard Coleman thinks it is a power too far.
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OpinionSpeed freak
Congratulations to Ian Simpson who has become Britain’s first owner of the Alfa 8C Competition supercar, a beast of a motor which is “visually arresting from all angles”.
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OpinionParis sees RHG as a star exhibit
BD readers backing the Robin Hood Gardens campaign may be interested — but not surprised — to learn that while the minister for culture (sic) and Tower Hamlets’ Council are conspiring to demolish the Smithsons’ estate, in Paris it is now the star exhibit of a large retrospective show on ...
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Regal eagle
An intriguing job ad in this week’s Guardian for a PA to work for a “world re-knowned [sic] architect” left Boots wondering who this might be.
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Drawing a line
Richard Brindley’s response to the question “Plan drawers are undermining us” (Practice April 3) just shows how out of touch the RIBA has become.
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OpinionTime for contractors to come clean
The industry cannot pick and choose on integrity in the wake of the OFT report