All Opinion articles – Page 329
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Fallen gem
It was perhaps thought-provoking that in the issue that was justifiably filled with triumphant anticipation for the spectacular architecture of the Olympics;
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Dont hang on every word
What are we to make of the headline “The Lying Game” (News - July 15)? That architects are liars? And what does that mean?
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Number crunching
In response to Stan Beanland (Letters July 15), staff costs are not the same as salaries.
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Happy campers
What is Bill Gething on about? Center Parcs is at best only a model for itself and at worst traffic segregation at its most extreme; the very thing he argues against.
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Concrete Boots
Turner surpriseAt the Core Cities Summit in Leeds last week Dermot Finch, director of the IPPR’s Centre for Cities, revealed how John Prescott likes to try to boost morale at the ODPM. According to Finch, Prescott arrived on stage at an event in London to the strains of Tina Turner’s ...
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The best medicine for hospital
A huge amount of discussion, debate and anguish has been lavished on “design quality” in public procurement. Just last week, BD reported on Cabe’s latest concerns about the Lift (Local Investment Finance Trust) initiative.
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Bath is bubbling
I was distinctly unimpressed by Thom Gorst’s review of the sixth-year work at the University of Bath (Culture July 8).
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OpinionCan we resist an icon Olympics?
The contest to design venues for 2012 must be intellectually curious as well as commercially competitive. Koolhaas, Chipperfield and Zaera Polo have set the pace
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Ian Martin
Activists dressed as millworkers will lobby to protect historic houses, having left their children at home dosed with laudanum
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Level playing field
It is disturbing to read in BD of suggestions that deals are already being done between Stuart Lipton and the London Development Agency for building Olympic homes (News July 1 and July 8).
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Lost cause
I felt that I was witnessing an architectural crit circa 1970 at the Cabe public design review of Levitt Bernstein’s NEV theatre in Shrewsbury at the Royal College of Surgeons (News Analysis July 8).
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OpinionConcrete Boots
Pushy femaleMeeting UIA presidential candidate Louise Cox, Boots was keen to confirm reports that the feisty Australian was the only woman ever to have been thrown off a building site for swearing. “It’s not true,” she says disappointingly, before saving the day by adding: “But I was nearly pushed off ...
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OpinionA bigger idea
I admire the way Adam Caruso nailed the current unsustainable “ideas deficit” in his essay (Analysis June 17).
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2012 race is the golden opportunity
It already seems a world away, but the euphoria of last week’s decision to hand London the right to host the 2012 Olympics, will resonate through architecture in this country and beyond for the next decade.
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OpinionNow let the young compete in 2012
The Olympics are a fantastic opportunity for architecture. The benefits to young athletes were specifically mentioned in the bid — but what about the emerging generation of young architects?