All Opinion articles – Page 270
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OpinionCreative thinking
Now that architects’ archives are commanding huge sums, those with something to sell are being urged to keep everything.
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Clapped out
Also at the town hall, though demonstrating rather less panache, was Stephan Reinke, managing partner of Woods Bagot, unsuccessfully trying to convince the meeting that his 100 West Cromwell Road tower development should get the green light.
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OpinionConfined by a design-community bug
Ian Martin fears a visit to an architectural launch party may be responsible for his mental illness
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Feeling blue
As the floodwaters recede from our river plains, I am reminded of the (paraphrased) words of Joni Mitchell: Oh, they paved paradise, put up an Olympic Park. They’re charging the people £9.2 billion just to see it though, not a dollar and a half.
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OpinionDoes the UK have too many schools of architecture?
New courses are eroding the value of the title ‘architect’ says Richard Weston; while David Gloster argues that the quality can be maintained
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OpinionLife begins for Milton Keynes
It’s the 40th anniversary of Milton Keynes, Britain’s best loved and most derided new town. To celebrate, next week is Milton Keynes week here on bdonline
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OpinionGive Liverpool best of both
I read the latest negative diatribe from Wayne Colquhoun of the Liverpool Preservation Trust (Letters July 20).
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Walking out
In my seven-and-a-half-year stint with Allies & Morrison I never witnessed the office “walking over” anybody, as Ali Mangera alleges (News July 13).
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Private lives
Anyone wanting to check which murky secret societies RIBA Council members belong to should hotfoot it to the library where, with a bit of arm twisting, a dossier of members’ interests is available.
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OpinionLiverpool really needs Unesco
I have just read the leader on London’s walkie talkie tower (July 13) and follow BD’s reports on Liverpool’s regeneration.
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Let judges judge
The riba Awards seem to satisfy nobody beyond those that have actually won one, and enrage and perplex almost everybody outside riba HQ.
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OpinionGrim news has a silver lining
Reports on the pressures of families, careers and homes, and the wealth gap, are making a wet summer worse. Are we losing the plot?
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Great and good
BD is always improving but surely it won’t get any better than this (“Grand masters” July 13)?
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High-rise future
In future I predict all UK high-rise buildings will include “cultavations”, that is, cultivated elevations on their south-facing sides.
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Figure it out
Russel Hayden’s mathematical skills are shaky when he writes that Truro Cathedral is 200 years old (I Wish I’d Done That July 13).
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Double fun
Boots was surprised to see that rather than take at face value Cabe’s comments on Woods Bagot’s 100 West Cromwell Road tower, Kensington & Chelsea council hired an external design consultant to conduct an independent review “in view of Cabe’s ongoing objection to the scheme’s design”.
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Crying shame
Arriving at Portcullis House, Westminster, for the launch of the RIBA’s Manifesto for Architecture last week, Boots was startled to find a group of performers of an advanced age, wearing only white bath towels, dancing to the music of South Pacific for an audience of civil servants.
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OpinionCracking up
Tony McIntyre’s review of the new house remodelling on Richmond Hill (Works July 6) was less than generous and bore no comparison to the house I visited earlier this year.
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OpinionAs Ratso knew, good experience costs
Richard Serra’s triumphant retrospective is a lesson in how to win over the crowd