All Opinion articles – Page 292
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Schools project needs total shake-up
It was only a question of time before the government twigged that its school building programme was in deep trouble. But for anyone involved in Gordon Brown’s flagship project, news that the first targets had been missed came as no surprise.
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Ian Martin
You have to pound the Taj Mahal to bits while fending off Unesco drone-monkeys armed with machetes
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Gazprom tower is right for the site
Recent articles in BD covering the Gazprom City HQ competition in St Petersburg miss the point and risk misleading your readers.
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Following fashions
Simon Jenkins’ call for a “reconciliation commission” to apologize for 1960s modernism is a complete waste of time.
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Housing deja vu
Poor 1960s estates were primarily the result of central government legislation and the housing cost yardstick.
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Competitions out
The correspondence (Letters January 12) on competitions fails to appreciate that they are in nobody’s interest. Frank Duffy is right (Soapbox) — they should be abolished.
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Blame misplaced
An RIBA commission to look at the 1960s would not solve the problem. Those in charge then are in charge now — politicians. Central government controlled what was built.
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How to get invited back to the top table
Last year I re-established the RIBA Housing Group and my prediction for 2007 was that housing would be at the top of our agenda, because it is where climate change meets poor design and chronic undersupply.
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Architects in front
I agree with your editorial (January 12), that architects are ahead of the game and do not need to be lectured by the housing minister, let alone the housebuilders, on zero carbon housing.
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An apology please
On the subject of apologies (News January 12), when is Simon Jenkins going to apologise for his commanding role in initiating and implementing the Millennium Dome scandal?
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Sink or swim
As an architect and a resident of Hove I am strongly in favour of the King Alfred development and find “spoiler” campaigns such as the one mentioned in last week’s BD not only very annoying, but believe that this diversion has the potential to waste a huge amount time and ...
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Salutary tale
The big stick: Once upon a time there was a hardworking Cinderella organisation that had a big stick which helped specify, control and lead the building industry in producing good works. It was the local authority.
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OpinionPulling power
I was most interested to read in your “Top 50 most powerful” list, that the most influential woman in architecture, Yvette Cooper, is married to someone who might possibly at some future point become chancellor.
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OpinionStar Rem’s whine misses the point
Knowing of Rem Koolhaas’ provocatively radical pronouncements, I assumed your headline (News January 5) referred to some appeal for a boycott by super-starchitects of rapacious multi-national clients and their demands for gas-guzzling symbols of power across the globe. Or perhaps of architects’ willing co-operation with nasty regimes in places ...
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Making a stand
Your impressive list of the top 50 most powerful figures in British architecture (BD January 5) was selected by your expert panel on the basis of quite a broad criteria of social, political and economic responsibilities, among other duties.
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Ian Martin
Personally, I intend to stay in the closet. Or ‘nano-live-space’ as the estate agents say
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RIBA should take a more critical stand
Why wasn’t an architect present at this week’s widely publicised meeting between the construction industry and housing minister Yvette Cooper?
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Competitions stifle the vital relationship
It’s hard to tell who suffers most from architectural competitions — the clients or the architects.
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Comforting point
BD purely in electronic format (Letters January 5)? I spend far too much time in front of a computer screen as it is.