All Opinion articles – Page 304
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Ian Martin
There’s a clever centrefold featuring skyscrapers arranged like The Usual Suspects
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Graduates need technical skills now
In your editorial about the latest crop of graduates (Comment, July 28), you say that “the complex technical requirements of putting a building together can come later” meaning students don’t have to acquire these skills at their schools of architecture.
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Ken needs to deliver on his green pledges
A year on and the Olympics remains a mirage: it’s as if we can imagine the best of every games — Sydney’s weather, Barcelona’s buildings, Athens fireworks — recreated in the gritty urban wastelands of east London. But the mirage is starting to fade.
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Direct action
So the RIBA is to launch “the biggest ever survey of architects’ thoughts on the profession” (News August 4).
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So why did it win?
One profoundly agrees with Frank Duffy’s reported comments on the Architecture Foundation redesign that quotes “the main thing is that it works and is a good place to be”.
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Silly season
It may be the hot weather or the illustrations may be misleading but I think the design for the extension to the Tate Modern (News July 28) is just silly and anyway too big.
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Politics are private
What exactly does Chris Nasah, chairman of the Society of Black Architects, think he will achieve by his attitude towards those who have a different opinion to himself?
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Not so liberal
I was more than disappointed to learn that Peter Phillips polled as high as 19% in the recent presidential election. I have always liked to think that the architectural profession is very largely made up of people from the left-of-centre/liberal-thinking fraternity. I thought that was one of the things that ...
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Ian Martin
I wanted to email Frank Gehry but pressed the wrong button and converted it into an exploding 3D masterpiece
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Shaky Foundation
Apart from radically altering: the design (the radical angled entrance block struck off); the materials (from concrete to steel); the brief (to make it work, says trustee); the timescale (adding two more years); and the cost (doubling the budget), the Architecture Foundation’s “new and revised” competition-winning scheme (News July 28)... ...
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Flying in the face
I can’t believe there’s any doubt about a face in the Herzog & de Meuron Tate Modern extension (Concrete Boots July 28).
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Disheartening vote
As a newly qualified Asian architect in Scotland and an RIBA member, I was somewhat disheartened to see a BNP member accumulating such a high percentage of the vote.
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Turnout concern
Instead of worrying about who voted for who in its presidential elections, should the RIBA not be concerned or draw its own conclusions as to why 73% of the membership considered it not worthwhile to vote at all.
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Did boredom inspire the Tate extension?
When I saw the drawings of Herzog & de Meuron’s new project for Tate Modern, my first thought was: what happened to these guys? Did they just get bored? I have to say, I found their earlier work for Tate Modern terribly dour and po-faced. It took a real pleasure ...
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Never seen before
When the shortlist was announced for the new Architecture Foundation HQ, its director, Rowan Moore, said, “Whoever wins, London will have a building of a kind that it hasn’t seen before”.