All Opinion articles – Page 251
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OpinionFearing risk is dangerous
The diminished 2012 Aquatic Centre and The Public are sorry tales of our times, but the danger is that clients will stop commissioning brave architecture
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Corrections
Our news story “Murray and Dunlop scoop Glasgow hotel” last week stated that the practice beat RMJM and Make to win the work. In fact, RMJM did not enter a bid for the scheme. Apologies.
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OpinionShould we change historic buildings rules to allow for climate change?
Yes it’s the lesser of two evils, says Sarah Staniforth, historic properties director at the National Trust, but Duncan McCallum of English Heritage says the rules are flexible enough already
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OpinionWhat’s at stake as SMC’s new master takes the reins?
Ironshield will be looking for high returns as a reward for the risk it has taken on
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OpinionWhat a sauce
Boots' attention was drawn to an amazing piece of PR, sorry, journalism, about Foster's latest "zero-carbon city" in last Monday's Guardian.
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OpinionWe must save Leicester
I first visited Leicester University’s Engineering Building in 1974 with some friends when we were students.
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Safe in our hands
Shepheard Epstein Hunter is preparing Leicester University’s development framework plan due to be published this year, a masterplan that will allow it to grow significantly. We have spent many hours in conversation with people at all levels of the university, and with many external stakeholders.
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Tate grates
May I add my support to Ivor Hall (Letters January 11) since I agree with all he says about this illogical and pretentious design for the Tate Modern extension.
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OpinionSharks lurk in ethical waters
Artistic freedom, at a profit, can be a powerful pull over principles on human rights. Where do you draw the line?
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Correction
Our news item last week on Headingly pavilion referred to the involvement of SMC Gower Archtects.
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Bonus claims
The battle for Foster & Partners’ proposed “penny whistle” tower in the London suburb of Ealing moved to the local paper, the Ealing & Acton Gazette, last week, with a claim on its front page that the 40-storey skyscraper will cast a “TV broadcast shadow across a huge swathe of ...
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OpinionDrawn a blank
I leave it for others to judge how extraordinarily Benson & Forsyth’s The Pod in Nottingham has been “shaped in response to the world around it” (Works, January 18).
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Bad counsel
I am appalled at the thought that planning appeals for smaller applications could be given to local councillors to decide (News January 18).
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Home and away
First on the list of architecture’s luvvies who signed a letter to the Guardian lamenting cuts to the British Council, funder of the biennale’s British pavilion, was ex-Design Museum boss Alice Rawsthorn, now on the board of the Arts Council — which has almost entirely dropped its architecture programme, and ...
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OpinionThe art of making a quality judgment
If quality is to be judged rather than measured, the government must be ready to step beyond public opinion
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OpinionIs Europan a real opportunity for architects in the UK?
Patently no, since no Europan entries have been built in England, says David Birkbeck; while Nick Johnson is confident that the tide is turning
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Ken and the AA
It’s not been a good week for Ken Livingstone, with probes into the LDA funding of projects, and Channel 4’s The Court of Ken on Monday.
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OpinionTransfer window
It’s well known that Liverpool football club’s US owners have doubts about manager Rafael Benítez, but now they seem to be having second thoughts about the flagship new stadium by HKS too.