All Opinion articles – Page 276
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Frankly speaking
Looking for an outfit to turn heads at the office summer party? Boots may have found the answer to every young architect’s dilemma — a t-shirt from www.itsasickness.com, tastefully emblazoned with the logo FUCK FRANK GEHRY.
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Positive feedback
As a contribution to the debate about how to improve late 20th century modernist icons it is a shame Christopher Woodward’s feature on the Royal Festival Hall was not more positive about improvements to the RFH auditorium.
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Eminent power
Bad girl of Brit Art Tracey Emin, who represents Britain at the Venice Biennale opening next week, has moved quickly to renovate the British Pavilion, which was not to her liking.
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Depressing view
My stroll last Sunday along the riverside upper deck of the Royal Festival Hall in anticipation of its opening this Friday after the £92 million refit was depressing.
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OpinionExposing PFI’s dead hand
Manchester’s fantastic new civil justice centre is proof positive of the benefits of being liberated from PFI
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Complex issues
The petition against Israeli architects working in East Jerusalem organised by Abe Hayeem and Charles Jencks, although well intended, is simplistic and imbalanced. It ignores wider issues affecting the region such as the complex political background and the violence of the conflict, as well as the sustainable urban issues affecting ...
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Fifth columnist
Not content with stoking the war of words with Ken over skyscrapers, Westminster council is deploying a controversial press officer on the tall buildings beat.
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OpinionBoutique politics and boutique architecture
Outgoing premier Tony Bean gives you an opportunity to thank him for all he has done for architecture in the past decade
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OpinionShould housing associations use partnering agreements?
Cyril Sweett says give member architects more work, but Walter Menteth argues that they thwart the talented
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OpinionSixties add-ons not all bad
Congratulations to you and the architect Allies & Morrison on the superb refurbishment of the Royal Festival Hall (Works June 1).
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An email sent to bdonline (via Babel Fish perhaps?)
Dear Sir or MadameI please it around fast information to a meeting today, with which on an auction architectural drawings are to be auctioneered. I read an invitation in the entrance hall of the RIBA for the opening of the South African exhibition in addition times. Is this meeting today ...
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OpinionPublicity is vital
So Michael Peters of Identica (offices in Canada, UK, USA & China), whose mission statement is “discover, create, optimise the brand experience”, has reacted to our petition with the threat that we “are going to burn our bridges with a number of developers — Israeli, British and European”.
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Political points
The RIBA, led by Jack Pringle, continues its fight for political correctness. In a primarily white society, it is not surprising that this is reflected in the make-up of the profession. Most architects achieve middle-class status, and the relatively small percentage of women members arises from a complex social history.
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OpinionHuman league
Greatly though I respect Sam Webb’s persistence, I fear we overlook the one feature common to the succession of errors that led to condemnation of the Ronan Point system — personal responsibility.
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Even-handed
I was interested to read your front page urging Israeli architects to end works in disputed territories.
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OpinionThat’s enough trips to the movies
Architects in fictional form are a staple of ‘brick lit’, but on film they must be themselves
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OpinionElegant solutions in intergalactic design
Designing a beautiful solution for an inter-planetary internet is easy — because there isn’t a problem
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OpinionStuck in the old buffer zone
The Tories don’t seem to grasp that innovative architecture benefits our cities and culture
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No to BD politics
I do not think that articles carrying quotations on controversial political issues should be headline news in BD (May 25). Do we not have enough of that stuff in the general media? Have we run out of valuable architectural subjects?
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Area of conflict
While I applaud the government awarding grants to improve energy-inefficient homes (News April 27), it seems that giving grants to buyers of low-scoring properties would boost sales of these properties, albeit marginally, and so work against the principle of energy performance certificates, which aim to encourage buyers to purchase efficient ...