All Opinion articles – Page 261
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OpinionExploring Beansy’s multiverse: Part One
Ian Martin finds out what life is like in a selection of parallel universes
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OpinionWhat’s afoot?
Zaha Hadid is to join Jordan, Coleen McLoughlin and Jade Goody in being the latest celeb to launch her own perfume range.
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OpinionNot-so-Koolhaas
If, like Boots, you are a keen reader of the glamorous quarterly, Fantastic Man, you will have been particularly struck by the latest issue where Rem Koolhaas is profiled in one of the most hair-raisingly candid interviews with an architect ever committed to print.
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OpinionStyle counsel
It was disappointing to hear the presenter of this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize cite Nazi architecture when describing David Chipperfield Architects’ winning Museum of Modern Literature at Marbach am Neckar, Germany.
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OpinionNew housing choices lacking
I endorse Margaret Hodge’s concerns that new housing is awful (News September 28).
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Carbuncle Cup comments
Our Carbuncle Cup award drew a huge response. Here is a selection of your letters and comments
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Busy busy busy
You may think that Design for London’s high-powered advisory group had vital issues like the capital’s future direction to discuss, but it seems not.
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OpinionBuildings are not just a pretty face
Architecture is about more than what a building looks like. Has anyone told our heritage bodies?
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OpinionIs a vertiplex the right way to regenerate Birmingham?
It will be a unique visitor attraction, says Charles Pettifer; it is ugly, ungainly and unsustainable, argues Joe Holyoak
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Bar starved
Someone should tell the RIBA that, when arranging a party, it’s always a good idea to ensure your guests can get a drink.
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OpinionContractors hold the aces
The strength of contractors is starting to control the building industry, and architects need to take note.
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Absent friends
The RIBA president Sunand Prasad felt he had to explain why some guests were missing on Saturday night including Tessa Blackstone, head of the RIBA Trust, which, as Boots has reported, was at the wedding of her son, Ben Evans, to Amanda Levete.
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Under the skin
It appears that visitors to Zaha Hadid’s Maggie’s Centre in Kirkcaldy have been so startled by its arresting appearance that they’ve reversed into it, causing unsightly damage.
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Social security
What is most horrific about this new architectural trend of artificial islands is the line of thinking it advocates.
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Noises off
The launch party for David Chipperfield’s new BBC HQ on Glasgow’s Clydeside was riotous — as anyone watching BBC1 in Scotland that night will tell you.
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Loss leaders
Googling Stephen George & Partners, winners of BD’s prestigious Carbuncle Cup 2007, produces the following search result: “Stephen George & Partners are the leading Architects in the UK, successful in masterplanning, urban regeneration, commercial, retail, leisure...”.
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OpinionRubbish is good for Tutti Frutti
Matching the spirit of the Tutti Frutti competition (September 28), Chance de Silva’s submission was both playful and serious in that it intends to build the house from reused materials sourced locally.