All Opinion articles – Page 264
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OpinionCan supermarkets ever really be sustainable?
We are regenerating brownfield sites and cutting carbon emissions, says Asda’s Bob Simpson; it’s just greenwash, counters Bob Hayes
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OpinionGlory be to Gehry for dappled things
Hurrah for Frank Gehry’s IAC tower, which brings texture and variety to Manhattan’s rigid pattern
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It’s cool
In your article on the reinstatement of St Pancras Station’s splendid glass roof (Solutions September 7), you quoted Alison Peterson Smith of Pascall & Watson as saying, “this amount of glazing far exceeds that allowed in new structures by modern regulations governing heat loss and energy efficiency”.
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OpinionBSF: smart PFI is a distraction
Your piece on the Building Schools for the Future programme following the opening of the Bristol Brunel Academy (News analysis September 7) raises important issues about PFI and procurement.
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OpinionCan architects help Sarkozy?
Sarkozy wants a built legacy, but are architects best placed to advise on what are often really political issues?
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OpinionAn issue that is not black and white
There are some very sound reasons why students should spend time studying the richness, diversity and ingenuity of non-western, non-white architecture, but to encourage more people from ethnic minorities to become architects is surely not one of them. Hopefully, people study architecture because, among other things, they want to learn ...
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Russian roulette
The Scots have always gone down well in St Petersburg — mainly thanks to architect Charles Cameron, the wandering Jock who designed several buildings for Catherine the Great in the city’s 18th century heyday.
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Second rate
Arb will no doubt be mulling over its future this week in the wake of confirmation that the Tories’ Quality of Life group is calling for it to be scrapped.
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Spaced out
Will Hurst suggests the RIBA should focus its attention on housing and climate change as the key issues of the day (Leader August 31), but there is little point in doing so if it continues to ignore the fundamental cause of the housing crisis, namely mass immigration.
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OpinionThe Office view
Imagine Slough and you imagine the long-suffering staff at Wernham Hogg, subjected daily to the antics of their boss David Brent in BBC sitcom The Office.
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My rug hell
Followers of the saga of Studio Bednarski’s Persian rug will be relieved to know it is finally here.
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Great minds?
We were interested to see Clash Associates’ proposal for a hotel at Lower Marsh near Waterloo (First Look September 7).
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Regional demand
It must be galling for the RIBA to see the scale of government funding paid to Cabe to perform a function which should have been kept in-house (News August 31).
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Credit control
It was disingenuous of Pascall & Watson and the Ingram Consultancy to attempt to steal the limelight on St Pancras International (Solutions September 7). Their joint role in the project has been much less significant than they might wish others to believe.
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OpinionShow some respect: cut the clichés
Meaningless archispeak is a lazy way to avoid a proper analysis of architecture
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Prize chumps
There was jubilation at the offices of Charlotte Skene-Catling when she was told her exquisite Dairy House was on the shortlist for the Stephen Lawrence Prize.
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OpinionShould masterplans be made legally binding?
Masterplans prevent developments from being hijacked, says David Page; no they don’t and we have enough legislation in this country, retorts Ben Derbyshire
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OpinionTowards a carbon-intolerant architecture
Ian Martin presents a zero-carbon roundup of carbon
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OpinionTories seize the green agenda
The Tories are trying hard to grab the green initiative, but the public remains unconvinced it is being heard