All Opinion articles – Page 308
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Living in the past
In Soapbox, June 16, Nick Johnson nearly makes a valid point, but he obviously has not been in this business long enough!
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Harlow promises
In Harlow North (News June 9), Ropemaker Properties has no specific target for self-comissioned housing - the calculation of 4,000 is entirely speculative.
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Generation game
I have just visited Poundbury for the first time and let me assure Bryan Perry (Letters June 9) that I tried to look at it with an unprejudiced eye.
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Music expresses the soul of Sheffield
So BD and Architecture Foundation's Architecture Rocks competition approaches its climax. It is an event in the long tradition of relating architecture to music. From Wittkower's treatise on Renaissance architecture, harmony and proportion, to Libeskind's use of Schoenberg to inform the Jewish Museum, people have tried to forge links between ...
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OpinionNorman Conquest
I expect every stout-hearted architectural yeoman now flying the flag of St George to vote for me
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Commonwealth: a duty to demolish
There is no viable future for the Commonwealth Institute. It should be demolished. Armchair aesthetes seem unaware of the raison-d'etre of the Commonwealth.
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Business as usual
You report (News June 9) that an unnamed DoH source and the man who is actually no longer responsible for the schools programme have "rejected" the RIBA's Smart PFI initiative. Small earthquake, not many dead, then.
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Best is yet to come
Peter Carolin's arguments in favour of the demolition of the Commonwealth Institute (Opinion June 16) evade the issue which is upsetting conservationists and ought to alarm even those neutral about the building.
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Phillips' BNP links are toxic, but no bar
Should political affiliation be a bar to becoming president of the RIBA? This is the only question that is worth asking a week after it emerged that Peter Phillips, one of three candidates for the presidency, is a member of the British National Party.
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OpinionBaah-baric stunt
Judging by my excitement and others' at the Rogers/Piano spectacle of herding sheep across the "wobbly" bridge, it was clear that we were "townies" and hadn't seen sheep alive at close quarters before. However, when I noticed the protestors, I started to think about the whole concept.
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What's in a name?
Phillip Seaward (Letters June 2) apparently wants the Arb to prosecute people outside the construction industry who use the title "architect".
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Listing laws
In your story on the Commonwealth Institute (News June 2), learned professionals, though not heritage experts, proclaimed the problems and defects with the institute building.
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Ian Martin
LAB 06: The prospect of a metrosexual mardi-gras has Darcy reaching for the smelling salts
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Harlow, I love you
Harlow is not such an unlikely place to kick-start a housing revolution. It has a strong history of innovative housing and, indeed, town planning. It has to be acknowledged that not all of it has worked, but also that a great deal of it has, and still does!
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Good, but not first
I was pleased to see that BD is continuing its interest in the international humanitarian agenda (News June 2).
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Mediocrity is just not good enough
It seems churlish, I know, in this week of celebrating all things worthy - architecture, bikes and saving the planet - to come across all maudlin, but I am a Manc after all. And heaven knows, I'm miserable now.
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Corrections
Gareth Pearce has never worked for Rem Koolhaas or his practice OMA, as our report "Olympic Copyright Claim", (News May 19), stated.
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Silly season campaign isn't the answer
Cabe's campaign focusing on bad design looks suspiciously like one of those ideas dreamt up to fill the airwaves between the health of Rooney's metatarsal and the Cameron charm offensive.