All Opinion articles – Page 323
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The wrong battle
After the Association of Consultation Architects (whose income must be a fraction of that extracted from the profession by Arb) took the initiative and brought BT to the table, Richard Coleman tries to convince us (Letters September 30) that “the board are proactive” in tackling abuse of title.
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Blot-bashing back
The infamous Carbuncle Award in Scotland has been relaunched after a four-year absence and is still unafraid of controversy.
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Rockin’ to BB71
There is a myth that lots of cheesy 1980s pop bands are still ekeing out a living in the music industry because they are, to quote the overused expression, “big in Japan”.
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OpinionThe Leaning Tower of Pisa and me
I’d been visiting friends in Pisa since the 1980s, and then I had a fling with an Italian architect who lived in Pisa, who introduced me to the engineers working to stabilise the leaning tower.
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Style is irrelevant
Regarding your article “Adam’s neo-classicism faces public style trial” (News September 16), I live very close to the proposed development and am opposed to it.Much of the aesthetics is a matter of taste, and so I make no comment on what is good design or on other work by Robert ...
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When in Milan, design for Milan
Italian architects protested this month at the proliferation of foreign architecture appearing in their own country. What they are saying should make an elite minority of British architects stop and think.
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Defending defence
Further to your article “group calls for boycott of design show” (News September 16), we feel it is important that there is a balanced debate and that any errors of fact are corrected. Reed Exhibitions would argue that defence and security sectors play a vital role in preserving peace and ...
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Bombing bridges
In the same week as a report for the RIBA warned that architects were introspective and liked to think of themselves as misunderstood artists, Tony Fretton did little to heal any perceived rift between the general public and the profession.
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Bill Portal
Neo-Classical network architecture, IMHO, rocks. Pleasing proportions, and the ethernet connection kicks ass
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Beyond our Ken
Ken Livingstone is used to fighting the Labour party, but this time he’s up against a much more intransigent foe.
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Aylesbury error
It is sad that your front page report in last week’s issue (News September 23) says that the Aylesbury estate was designed by Austrian architect Hans Trenton. This suggests that Southwark, which at the time had the largest housing programme in London, had brought in a private architect from abroad.For ...
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Archive protection
For your top story last week you chose to feature an accident to an important collection while in temporary storage at our headquarters, some three years ago.I very much regret the damage caused at the time (fortunately to prints, not originals) and naturally we have acted to improve the housing ...
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Arb is proactive
Richard Coleman, head of regulation, ArbFurther to Kate Macintosh’s letter (September 23), your readers should be aware that the Arb board is working hard to eliminate what is a national problem with BT directories and inaccurate architect classifications.We have, in fact, used the example in Clive Jones’s local directory in ...
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OpinionHadid and Alsop’s designs are tragic
On viewing the proposed schemes by Alsop and Hadid for a gallery in Edmonton, Canada (News September 23), I wasn’t sure whether to laugh or weep.
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OpinionAfter a fashion
English Heritage chief executive Simon Thurley has a reputation for being a bit of a dapper dresser.
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Adapt or die
Former BDP head Richard Saxon said this week that the profession needed to be more technically proficient, business savvy and team up to form “megafirms” to take on PFI work.
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Bad design abound
Robin Vaughan seems to be quite excited, if a little confused, about the potential for the further testing of architects and their patience by Arb (News September 9). He shouldn’t, however, worry too much that “there’s a world out there thinking architects are doing well”. A perusal ...
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Story of structure
With reference to Ellis Woodman (Soapbox, 16 September), it is study of structure that links architectural history to design, but neither is structure much taught in schools of architecture. Gropius’s “inner logic” did not always extend to his construction but the restored Bauhaus curtainwall lives on as his structural and ...