All Opinion articles – Page 262
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Flushed out
In its unwavering support for Plastik Architects’ first public building (Works September 28), Gravesham Borough Council pursued an ambitious design and played a significant part in promoting strong architectural ideas, realised within tight fiscal constraints.
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OpinionWhat on Earth?
While the armies and navies of the world have never been fans of Google Earth, the US Navy has further reason to curse its revealing satellite maps, which show that its California barracks resemble a giant swastika.
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Off colour
Sunand Prasad (“Architecture schools too white in focus” News September 21) is correct, and your readers need look no further than your front cover rendering of Grimshaw’s Leningrad airport.
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Cold turkey
Philip Johnson’s seminal Glass House in Connecticut has finally opened its doors to the public. But visitors to the 1948 scheme may be surprised by some recent additions to the grounds.
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Too buttoned up
I was interested to read your editorial comment on Sunand Prasad’s view that “ethnic minority students feel shut out”.
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OpinionIs your business really solid as a rock?
We would all be well advised to ponder the implications of Northern Rock’s recent crisis
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OpinionHas the call for eco-towns been thought through?
While they depend on external infrastructure, these towns are little more than a marketing strategy, says Nick Rosen; but Bill Dunster thinks they could have wide holistic benefits
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OpinionTossing ideas about on urban morphology
Ian Martin reports from a conference ‘Be The Climate Change’, and looks at ways of surgically enhancing our metropolitan built environment.
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OpinionIt’s still not easy being young
BD launched Yaya 10 years ago to showcase the work of gifted young architects, but we also keep watch over the carbuncles
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Tip for the top
The ambitions of energetic deputy chairman of Urban Splash Nick Johnson to become the next Stuart Lipton are gaining momentum.
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Never mind the...
It seems that Tessa Jowell is more than a little exasperated with the jargon spewing from the ODA.
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Late lament
Staff and patients at Alder Hey hospital in Liverpool will soon have an all-too-clear reminder of the green oasis that it is about to obliterate.
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Justice served
As the Bovis Lend Lease design manager for Manchester Civil Justice Centre from October 2002 to August 2004, I find it very disappointing that for such a spectacular building you do not give adequate credit to the primary structure and make no mention at all of the primary facade works.
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Hitting the roof
It was intriguing to compare the measured elegance of the roof at St Pancras (Solutions, September 7) with, on the following pages, the contrived “architecture” of the Riverside Museum in Glasgow.
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HIPs out of joint
Richard Brindley (Practice September 21) gives an accurate account of how the HIPs are now fractured!
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Trees are green
I am concerned by the letter from Jun Huang (September 7) on timber as a construction material being less than “green”.
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OpinionHodge dodge
Boots’ attempts to track down the new architecture minister Margaret Hodge are proving almost as difficult as those to find her predecessor, David Lammy, who managed to escape BD’s clutches during his entire stint at the DCMS.
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OpinionDigging up some new relics of the past
Ian Martin is kept abreast of the latest archaeological finds
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OpinionOriginality rests on strong design
Ellis Woodman was, in my view, completely accurate in suggesting that Manchester’s new Civil Justice Centre “has all the makings of an icon” (September 14).