All Opinion articles – Page 336
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OpinionConcrete Boots
Cheesy chipsDeveloper Urban Splash has gone the whole hog in a marketing push for Will Alsop’s chip-inspired flats in the New Islington scheme in Manchester. The promotional website, at www.chipsforsale.com, features an animation of Alsop with a white chip-shop hat lowering onto his head and the flats being doused in ...
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Wait for proof before judgment
We can only endorse George Ferguson’s proposal (News, May 6) to extend the period after completion that buildings can be entered for the Stirling Prize.
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OpinionFrancesco Bandarin
Francesco Bandarin, director of Unesco World Heritage Sites, this week hosted a conference in Vienna to discuss proposed guide-lines designed to protect heritage sites, such as Liverpool, from iconic, high-rise development.
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Toilet talk
The article by Christopher Woodward (Culture April 22) reminded me of my only encounter with Peter Smithson. I was a student at Birmingham School of Architecture in the 1950s and was responsible for organising visiting lecturers.
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Worthy of support
I question the outcome of BD’s election poll survey. Surely there is enough visual evidence around us to highlight an upward trend in the quality of architecture and the built environment?
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Name and shame jobsworth planners
It’s time for some post-election wishes. Less war, less poverty and, after about four months’ campaigning, how about less meaningless political bickering. Oh, and perhaps Her Majesty’s government could do the architecture profession a favour and finally get stuck into the planning system.
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Ian Martin
I spent an hour or so sharpening pencils and reassigning them to their proper positions in the HB spectrum
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A force for good
As someone who was often frustrated by the strange ways of Cabe’s predecessor, the Royal Fine Arts Commission, I find Cabe something of a revelation; a definite force for good.
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Camden clear-up
May I correct a few factual errors in your article, “Camden planner clings on” (News April 29)?
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Cloud of negativity ignores Cabe work
I applaud what Cabe has achieved in its short life and am surprised that two-thirds of the respondents to the BD readers’ poll think it has failed to make a significant impact on the quality of design (News April 29).
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Where are the cast lists for buildings?
One of the things that strikes you when wandering around Paris is that in a reasonably prominent part of nearly every building is a little cartouche carved into an appropriate piece of stonework telling you the name of M le Architect responsible.
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OpinionConcrete Boots
Air pressureDavid Marks and Julia Barfield of Marks Barfield Architects are official campaign champions for a pressure group that wants more power to be generated by wind turbines. The pair join prestigious champions Norman Foster, London mayor Ken Livingstone and TV presenter Chris Tarrant. The name of the pressure group? ...
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Ticket tout
I was interested to read Allan Murray talking about “stealth” in relation to the new visitor ticketing facilities he’s apparently been “asked to design” for Edinburgh Castle. Reading his article (Culture April 15), I began to wonder how there was going to be space for his stealth booth alongside our ...
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Ian Martin
Another chart shows the key marginal constituencies. Not just architects, but zookeepers, viola players and nuns
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Fast learner
It’s a nice reward to be regarded as an architect after three or four years’ hard labour getting a first degree, but is it actually possible to be registered in less than seven years, or is Matt Murphy a prodigy? (News Analysis April 22). l Our apologies. Matt Murphy is ...
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Meeting the code
Following your report that I was not allowed to attend the ODPM consultation about the Sustainable Buildings Code at CIRIA last Friday (News April 22), I managed to gain access to the meeting and stayed for an hour before going on to another meeting about sustainable housing.I raised the issue ...
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Caravan jam
So Peter Smith thinks Ken Livingstone is on another planet. Nothing new in that.But where is Green Ken going to source all his London building materials? John Prescott is covering the 35-mile radius in multi-storey caravans.
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Power trip building proves a bumpy ride
What started me writing about the edifice complex was a photograph published in the Scotsman midway between the two Iraq wars. It showed Saddam Hussein, in his British army surplus sweater and beret, surrounded by a cluster of henchmen with interchangeable moustaches, lost in wonder at the sight of a ...
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Concrete Boots
Little & Large showWhen you meet famous people in real life they are often a lot shorter than you expected. The camera lens seems to favour short people with large heads, like Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman. This picture of Grand Designs presenter Kevin McCloud with US landscape architect Martha ...