All Opinion articles – Page 268
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OpinionRally round to save the MK dream
It may be the butt of jokes, but Milton Keynes’ very existence champions the suburban ideal
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OpinionModernists are not democrats
The rejection of Eric Parry’s glass-and-ceramic box in Bath (News August 3) has upset supporters of the “modernism is the only way forward” view, and brought to the surface the usual nonsense used to support it.
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OpinionEgos need to be kept in check
The athletes’ village will be a closely watched drama, unlike its antithesis — the conventional mega-project at Stratford
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Bright idea?
Boots is nervous to learn that aspiring intellectuals at the Association of Consultant Architects are hoping to flex their grey matter and show the world what they know on University Challenge.
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Boots, I love you
BD’s Graham Bizley, of Prewett Bizley architects, was rather hoping that a recent article on his house in Stoke Newington in the Telegraph magazine might drum up some enquiries from potential clients. Instead, he received the following, from a reader called Colin.
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The big issue
During the recent flooding around the Ouse, Derwent, Severn, Avon and Thames, one government minister said: “It will not be possible for future housebuilding to avoid flood plains.”
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Bad sports
Strict IOC rules on the use of the word “Olympic” mean that Lend Lease, which is charged with building all the games’ accommodation, has had to rename it the Athletes’ Village.
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OpinionShould architects take the lead in bridge design?
The bridge collapse in Minneapolis is a warning that architecture must take second place to engineering, says Gordon Masterton, while Martin Knight argues that issues of connectivity and context must be undertood before even the most obvious engineering constraints.
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OpinionCampaign to prevent change of any kind
Ian Martin’s conservactionist friend Dusty Penhaligon runs into trouble for trying to relive the good old days of June 2007
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OpinionDebate: Should Milton Keynes go high density?
Rounding off our Milton Keynes special, Mike Macrae, a member of the original masterplanning team says new growth is true to the plan. But Theo Chalmers from residents group Urban Eden says development is ruining the city
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OpinionCoffee Hall, Springfield and Neath Hill
As part of our week-long special celebrating Milton Keynes at 40, Zoë Blackler and photographer Ed Tyler take a tour of the city. Here they visit schemes by Richard MacCormac and Wayland Tunley
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Protection racket
So determined was the RIBA that the Stirling shortlist should not leak out early that not only did it make those in the know sign confidentiality clauses, it apparently went as far as promising a visit from RIBA heavies.
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OpinionFamily favourites
A pat on the back to Rogers Stirk Harbour, which found itself in top place in a survey of family-friendly architecture and construction firms in the Guardian this week.
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OpinionLast night’s TV: the Ignorance Factor
Germaine Greer’s housing ‘solution’ for Cambridge just displays her ignorance. Has she no shame?
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OpinionPassionate designs are ravishing, ladies
Kevin McLouche takes us on a whistle-stop tour of the RIPBA’s Gurning Prize shortlist TV personality
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What crisis?
The London Olympic stadium might be running late but that hasn’t been enough to keep its architect HOK Sport’s designers Rod Sheard and Peter Cook in the country.
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OpinionClients are not the problem
As long as our planning system rejects schemes like Bath’s Holburne design, the UK’s role in the Stirling Prize will diminish
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Celebrity square
You might not put David Adjaye in the same company as singer Charlotte Church or TV presenter Lorraine Kelly, but Boots was amused to discover they were all wined and dined by former PM Tony Blair.
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Brits flooding in
Amid an invasion of Dutch architects working on the Thames Gateway, Boots was delighted to hear it’s not all one-way traffic.
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OpinionWas Bath right to reject the Holburne Museum scheme?
It would have been a dilution of Bath’s historic environment, argues Stephen Marks, while Peter Clegg calls it an exemplary piece of sculpted architecture which would have improved on what it replaced