All Opinion articles – Page 337
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Green dream begins at home
I was delighted to read Kate Macintosh’s imaginative ideas for generating electricity from coastal defence systems (Letters April 22).The other area we have to look at is how to conserve more energy in existing buildings, particularly housing. It is essential that they are thermally upgraded, and this is not something ...
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In the beginning
Mike Nightingale seems to suggest that it is acceptable for contractors to compete for PFI projects after the architect has been appointed (Talkbox April 22). Has he read anything about Constructing Excellence? There should be one contractor, one architect and one of everything else working on the project from the ...
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Lattice beef
Last week’s BD featured two lattice or lace-related buildings: the completed Le Bon Infant in Paris and the proposed Nottingham Centre for Visual & Live Art. The former applied a complex laser-cut, stainless-steel lattice cladding to externally unify a grouping of existing and new buildings; the latter will incorporate external ...
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Off to a bad start
The introduction to your article on St Paul’s, Deptford (Works April 15) was a misleading and depressing start to what was otherwise a decent and balanced article. The impression conveyed is that no one at the church wanted the project to go ahead; that no one was pleased when it ...
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Too much ‘wow’, too little action
John Prescott has been known to punch voters. Now he should prepare to be punched right back, and by the most unlikely of constituents — you, the architects.
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Time for Tea
How reassuring that design issues are to be placed “centre stage” in Liverpool (News April 8). The initiatives outlined are very welcome, if not a little overdue.
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No to Nuclear
It comes as a shock that David King advocates a new generation of nuclear power generators (Solutions April 15).
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OpinionMike Nightingale
Mike Nightingale of Nightingale Associates has seen bidding for two major PFI projects collapse in the past five months.
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Northern light
I refer to the East of England Regional Assembly’s drive to realise the housing ambitions of the the deputy prime minister, regardless of the wishes of local councils and communities.
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OpinionLessons for Longbridge
The imminent closure of MG Rover’s Longbridge plant will create a huge challenge for those working on the regeneration of the area, writes Christoph Elsaesser.
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Ian Martin
Strict vagrancy bylaws mean that poor Dorothy can’t stay overnight in the gated community of Munchkinland…
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Housing hope
Nothing but truth in your heartfelt lament about the quality of new housing developments (News Analysis April 15).
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Green Ken trumps the government
London mayor Ken Livingstone’s dream of transforming the capital’s buildings into a model of sustainability is tantalising.
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Fools rush in
Grave disappointment awaited Le Tatlin when, on unveiling his plan for the “Monument to Third International”, he realised there wasn’t enough steel in Russia to build it.
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Tale of two firms
Your article credits my practice as designer of the Dickens theme park (Spotcheck April 15).
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Soapbox: Endless contests wont solve housing
It should be a dream position for specialist housing architects.
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OpinionConcrete Boots
Mad for windowsOne of the great things about democracy, besides the riveting general election, is the fact that anyone is entitled write to planning committees to comment on any scheme. One letter of complaint to West Dorset planners about a new scheme in Prince Charles’s Poundbury village is a fantastic ...
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Labour blameless
As I read your interesting article, I imagined that those who approved the Trinity Mead housing scheme, which you rightly lambasted, were all Labour councillors.
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Asbo on Alsop
The flashy attention-grabbing exploits of Will Alsop’s office contrast sharply with the powerful simplicity of the London Eye, to which the Shanghai Kiss was compared.
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Taking a stand against PII cheats
I support Arb’s stand against the architects who blatantly decided that they did not require professional indemnity insurance or could not afford it (News April 15. They do the profession no service.