All Opinion articles – Page 315
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OpinionAn unqualified hit
I was dismayed to see an image of a major scheme entitled "Hemingway Houses" "designed by Broadway Malyan with Hemingway Design". It appears Wayne Hemingway has designed the scheme supported by that well-known firm of technicians Broadway Malyan.
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Old fashioned
Your caption for Benson Forsyth's Nottingham Scheme "the height of the scheme reflects the 19th century buildings" beggars belief! Am I missing something here ?
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Design codes: Yeah but no but... no
TV's Little Britain has given us a humourous tour of our landscape and the characters that inhabit it, with their social and cultural diversity. How do we respond to them when deciding how to develop new housing and townscapes? Can we accommodate our idiosyncrasies and celebrate our real little Britain?
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OpinionConcrete Boots
Money problemsMutterings have re-started over Will Alsop's chairmanship of the Architecture Foundation, which meets in a few weeks to discuss how to handle his latest career move. It's not simply that Alsop rarely shows up to trustees' meetings, it's the slightly awkward problem of having the foundation's public face fundraising ...
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Architecture falls from top of the class
It was only a matter of time before the government's ambitious city academy programme was dismantled.
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Alsop opportunity
Cecil Balmond, the late Tony Fitzpatrick, and Peter Rice are three among numerous outstanding design engineers who have developed their careers within an established large practice - in their case Ove Arup. And such is the norm in most other construction disciplines, but not so architecture.
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Part 1 graduates have little to offer
Foreign Office Architects denial of claims that they are exploiting students has raised questions about the conditions students experience when entering practice.
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Ian Martin
We all agree there'd be no harm in running events under the title Islamophilia, say, or Rockin' Mosques
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Quiet diplomacy grabs no headlines
It is the lot of advisory bodies, especially those funded by government, to be on the receiving end of accusations that they are either not toeing the line by slavishly praising the latest government policy initiative, or that they are supine recipients of taxpayer largesse, content to do the government's ...
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Let Archigram go abroad - and online
While you can't blame Archigram for wanting to cash in, there is something rather pathetic about the archives of one of the 20th century's most important English architects being hawked around town like an explorer's booty.
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Ian Martin
It's all very well for us, but whither the tell-tailed tit, the speckled mudpecker, the downy dunhead?
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Free regeneration from bureaucracy
Cynics claim English Partnerships is the organisation that John Prescott turns to when he's got an idea.
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Why Part L is set to empower architects
Building legislation in the UK is finally coming into step with what the scientists have been telling us since the 1970s: that global climate change is unavoidable and fossil fuel supplies are in demise.
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The eight-week rule hinders good design
Perhaps it isn't surprising that so many architects moan about the planning system. You can't legislate for good design.
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Virgin sacrifices young design talent
"Don't rock the system," pleaded one successful architect, worried that Building Design's story on the way a young practice has been treated by one of the UK's most successful companies will be a warning to other clients not to use young firms at all.
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Tub Haagendas
Monday I present some collected material in the form of a "decoy lecture" at the Institute of Cultural Ballistics.
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Now Cameron must take on planning
As a reporter on this paper I was sent to cover the unveiling of major new development. It was called King’s Cross.