All Opinion articles – Page 283
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OpinionYou say: BD readers comment on the future of the Arch
Does Network rail have a duty to restore the Great Arch and will the latest station redevelopment plans be any improvement? Add your voice to the debate
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OpinionWe say: Great Arch is still a potent symbol
It's time to accept the battle for Euston Arch has been lost, argues Zoë Blackler
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OpinionTouched up
Iconic London buildings appear as you’ve never seen them before on the Londonist website, which invites users to digitally alter classic capital scenes.
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NY uncharmed
Will Alsop may have thoroughly charmed the Observer’s normally ruthless interviewer, Lynn Barber, in her profile of him in last week’s edition, but the maverick architect is having a tougher time of it on the other side of the Pond.
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Listening skills
David Chipperfield endured a torrid time last week while defending his luxury De Vere Gardens apartment scheme to the planning committee and the mostly hostile residents of Kensington & Chelsea.
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OpinionRouse’s invaluable legacy
The Housing Corporation’s new design strategy demonstrates impressive ambition
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Customer service
Since I became a member of the RIBA in the 1970s, I have been hearing the same call for the institute to “promote” architects more. And I have seen the esteem in which architects are held and the power they have steadily decline.
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OpinionShould the RIBA drop its chartered practice scheme?
Jane Duncan defends the institute's controversial new membership scheme, while Tom Jestico fears small practices will suffer
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Small is beautiful
I read with interest your March 23 front page where the ODA’s Jerome Frost and Ricky Burdett are quoted as expressing concern that the procurement of designs for venues for the 2012 games will be a “mad rush”.
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OpinionBBC needs to reinstate design
Your front page article and leader on Cabe’s accusation of dumbing down the final phase of the BBC redevelopment (March 30) highlights the fact that for many multiheaded corporate clients, “architecture” is at most skin-deep, one reason why the trend to meaning-lessly shaped “iconic” buildings is the fashion.
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OpinionBack to basics is the way forward
Management is increasingly driven by process, not purpose. The remedy is to put the client first
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Auctioned off
Boots’ mouth is watering after catching a sneak preview of the catalogue for the Architects’ Benevolent Society’s Big Auction, to be held on June 7.
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OpinionAppraisals work
It is inspiring to read about those who have recognised the crucial link between the “two-way street” of staff appraisals and practices developing as happy, learning and continuously improving organisations. (Practice March 16).
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Arbs legal advice
I echo Paul Hyett’s comments regarding Arb’s appalling performance based upon incompetent and inaccurate legal advice (Letters March 23).
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Pull the other one
Come on BD! Your Solutions page (March 30) repeated an awful lot of green mumbo-jumbo when describing projects being built in the United Arab Emirates.
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Olympic rethink
I enjoyed Sean Griffiths’ observations on Mipim 2007 (Opinion March 23); the decadence, the vulgarity, the male testosterone and the leggy blondes.
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