All Opinion articles – Page 255
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Penny drops
Fears over Norman Foster’s “penny whistle” tower, planned for the leafy London suburb of Ealing, are getting rather out of control, it seems.
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OpinionFinally, the correct version of Tamworth
In his final hop round the multiverses, Ian Martin briefly visits a Midlands utopia
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City limits
With great respect for both author Gavin Stamp and his reviewer Kenneth Powell, and admitting personal involvement, may I claim Coventry as an exception to that angry tale of post-1945 disasters and disgrace in Britain’s Lost Cities (Culture November 23).
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OpinionCabe reviews can mislead
We welcome Cabe's structured involvement in the schools sector (November 30)
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Bare necessities
Hackney Council may have laid blame for many of the problems at Clissold Leisure Centre at the door of architect Stephen Hodder, but there are some things for which he just can’t take the rap.
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Rock on, Arnold
International banker Luqman Arnold is going head-to-head with Richard Branson in a bid to save Northern Rock.
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OpinionAre poor relations between architects and housebuilders a key cause of bad housing design?
Yes, both sides should value each other more, says Cabe chief executive Richard Simmons, while Simon Hudspith of Panter Hudspith Architects believes the real problem is value and the profit imperative
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It's all just nuts
Architects had better stop carping about low pay if the latest data from trade union GMB are to be believed.
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Still on track
Piers Gough has raised a long-standing question about the roles of English Heritage and Cabe (News November 16).
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Number puzzle
When I resigned in May 2007 as English Heritage’s chief conseration architect and head of profession, I was able to identify 28 architects working for EH in various capacities of a total of 1,937 full-time equivalent employees (EH annual report 2006/07).
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OpinionScots missed
Just to put the record right, Deyan Sudjic, Ricky Burdett and myself, the only architects on the jury for the BBC Scotland HQ (BD Magazine, Offices, November), soon came to the conclusion that the proposal by David Chipperfield was the best.
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Poor illumination
Bill Mitchell quotes Leon Botstein on leaks at MIT’s Stata Center (Opinion November 16) as saying: “hiring Gehry to design a building was no more risky than hiring Albert Einstein to teach physics”.
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OpinionIconic Pimlico must be saved
As a former governor of Pimlico School, I was interested to read about its impending demolition (News November 23).
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OpinionAre you revered as a global visionary genius?
Ian Martin discovers how an obscure architect in our reality might be a superstar in a parallel world
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Fear of flying
A non-scientific survey of the world’s worst airports by The Independent paper’s foreign correspondents features none other than Richard Rogers’ Madrid Barajas building — “a huge shopping mall where you feel you could get lost, possibly for years”.
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Facing the music
Daniel Libeskind’s latest non-architectural creation — a 5.2m-long grand piano — took as long to make as some of his buildings.