All Opinion articles – Page 250
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OpinionJust stop stating the bleeding obvious
Clichés, Saul? Tell me about it. I’m literally sick of them.
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OpinionDo you welcome Prince Charles’s latest blast?
It’s good to see the prince embracing sustainbility, says Rab Bennetts; while Michael Manser laments that Charles still doesn’t understand how architects work
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OpinionOnce bitten...
We note with interest your Archive story (February 1) relating to our design for a lion’s cage.
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It’s a belly flop...
From the way the ODA organised the Aquatics Centre project, there was a terrible inevitability about the dire final design (News February 1).
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OpinionLofty opinions or tall stories
We asked industry experts whether they agreed with Prince Charles’s latest comments
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OpinionPointing out
Boots was interested to see the ODA’s Inclusive Access Statement, published this week, which decreed that “none of the WCs or urinals [should] face Mecca, which is deemed to be 115 degrees east of North”.
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Network news
Boots went to help Make Architects celebrate its fourth birthday with a packed-to-the-gunnels party in its half-finished 55 Baker Street office redevelopment last week.
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Stop this neglect
I first visited Stirling & Gowan’s Leicester engineering building around the same time as John Tuomey (Letters January 25).
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Made for walking
Daniel Libeskind and his wife Nina have revealed more about their penchant for “ranch chic”, including the rather off-putting fact that for the past five years Danny has worn nothing on his feet except a single pair of cowboy boots.
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Israel is muddier
Designing buildings in the “disputed territories” in Palestine-Israel is much further along the scale of muddied water of architectural ethics than an airport in China (Leader, January 25).
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OpinionWhy I’ll be voting Smurf this year
The Smurfs are celebrating their 50th birthday and in a US election year are really coming to life
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Start at home
Your sub-heading, Life and times of a communist despot, was unfair to Zaha Hadid (News January 25), but it is nice to see communists putting up such an extravagant building.
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History man
Well done to Saul Metzstein. It is a long time since anyone corrected the clichés about Le Corbusier and the modern movement (Opinion, January 18).
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Own goal
There might have been a swift resolution to Liverpool FC’s indecision over its flagship stadium (Boots January 18) had it accepted Liverpool School of Architecture’s invitation to debate the merits or demerits of the HKS design — previously decried as a dog, then hailed as a mongrel in BD’s ...
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Force of the law
In the 21st century, international human rights legislation has to be observed by architects and their clients — just as much as by everyone else.
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OpinionDownsizing
If small is beautiful, Willard Wigan’s micro-sculpture of Richard Rogers’ Lloyds building (pictured) must be the most dazzling structure ever.
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OpinionEuropan: the debate goes on
I agree with David Birkbeck (Debate January 25) that volume housebuilders and the architectural profession don’t have much to do with each other, bar occasional sniping.