All Opinion articles – Page 321
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The danger of Battersea’s collector’s club
Pigs flew over Battersea Power Station on the cover of Pink Floyd’s 1977 album Animals. Ever since, the odds of anyone successfully rehabilitating this incredible hulk have been the longest in the development business.
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Accepting help
I am somewhat bemused by your reporting of my company’s work in Princes Street, Edinburgh (News October 28).
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OpinionDick & Domme
Why do so many buildings look like genitalia? We’ve got a picture of one on the screen now...
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Good design is more than skin deep
What do commercial clients want most from their architects? Some useful accommodation, or a bit of magic?
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Ashford deal threatens local democracy
Who is going to pay to sort out our beleaguered planning system? Ashford planners believe they have found a novel solution.
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Man of the people
The prime-time television coverage of the Stirling Prize last week was very welcome.
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Perfect Saturday TV – heroes and villains
I approached Channel 4’s coverage of the 2005 Stirling Prize with trepidation. Firstly, a two-hour programme about architecture, although my pet interest, does not necessarily make great Saturday night television.
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Falling numbers
Architects refurbishing Lasdun’s famous ziggurats at the University of East Anglia have an interesting design challenge: how to stop drunken students falling off the roof balconies.
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Unkindest cut
It’s taken years for the RIBA to convince Channel 4 that the Stirling Prize should go out on live broadcast.
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What a crap idea
German architect Friedrich Lentze has invented a new type of cement that uses an unusual material: dog muck.
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... to Pseuds corner
Zaha’s press releases are always a joy to behold, but a nightmare to decipher.
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Clients, not public, benefit from PPPs
Do architects work for the public interest or for private enterprise? Before you answer “both, of course”, take a close look at the goings on down at the Elephant & Castle regeneration project in south London.
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Babs Windsor
Opened buildings all day with big scissors, in a hat. Waved to crowds, who waved back. Result.
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Toyo Taverso
Ian Martin is away. This week’s diarist is the influential designer and polemicist Toyo Taverso, winner of the 2005 RIPBA Real Gold Medal for Top-Quality Architecture.
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Turn off the style
It is very disturbing to hear that planners in the Lake District are taking a stylistic stance in promoting “bold modern design”, by which they mean “something that is recognisably of today” — the tired old mantra of modernism.
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The mistake of the mega-practice
I have developed a form of Tourette’s syndrome whereby the misuse of the words “innovation” and “creativity” results in convulsions and machine-gun obscenities. Life has got harder (and the office noisier) recently.
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Lost in translation
The conclusion to Rab Bennetts’ Soapbox column on 30 September was edited to reinforce his plea for more considered modern architecture from UK architects working abroad.