All Opinion articles – Page 343
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Misinformation
I would like to make a point relating to your article, “Salisbury quits Arb board” (News February 18).
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Start listening to the kids
Sometimes it’s difficult to know how much responsibility to give children. Let them set their own school lunch menus and society’s efforts to combat obesity would sink quickly in a sea of fizzy drink and chips. Besides, that’s a job for Jamie Oliver,
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Ian Martin
Mr Farquear’say faces a further civil charge of lying unconscious in a plaza. We argue that this subverts the ‘Tyranny of the Vertical’
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Solid example
Congratulations to Ken Shuttleworth for attacking the tired cliche of “glass box” buildings, which are as boring as they are inefficient.
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Deeplish revisited
The government has aired proposals to demolish thousands of houses in the North-west (News February 11).
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Shaky concept
You’re having a right laugh this week, aren’t you (How we did IT February 18)? “Mathew Emmett’s aim is to integrate physical environments with ‘psycho-archi-ventions’.”
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Charles frets over health
Prince Charles spoke at the Royal College of Physicians this week on the environment’s impact on health. Here is an edited version of his speech:It is imperative that we apply the notion of healing not only to ourselves, but also to our built and natural environments that have been so ...
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OpinionConcrete Boots
Good vibrationsLast week, we learnt that architects are highly desirable as dates. So perhaps it should come as no surprise that an architecture student has built a model of an orgasm.Ronnie Gensler, from Columbia University in the US, “studied, subdivided and finally modelled an orgasm” in the form of an ...
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OpinionSeeing through the glass argument
Ken Shuttleworth’s view (Soapbox February 18) that office buildings can be more energy efficient by reducing the glazed areas to 50% is absurdly simplistic.
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OpinionSizing up the Supercity
In a video playing at his Supercities exhibition in Manchester, Will Alsop says he is “interested in the city we don’t know”. But is the visiting public interested in what he has conjured up for a city of 15 million stretching from Liverpool to Hull?
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What policy?
In response to Robert Booth’s piece on new urbanism (Editorial February 4), I hate to disappoint your readership. If the UK is to adopt a “US-style urban policy”, then welcome to the desert. The US has no urban policy.
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In need of support
I am a female sole practitioner having worked for many years in local authorities. Men are not usually very supportive of women in the office or on the site, and many women struggle to be one of the boys. It took me many years to realise that builders didn't think ...
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Model potential
Andy Feculak’s letter (February 11) regarding the unsustainability of PRP’s Summit House was based on the incorrect assumption that it would be detached. The example on show at the Sustainable Communities Summit was an end-of-terrace designed to be adaptable to different sites. In a three-storey terraced layout, a typical density ...
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Missing role model
Your article featuring 12 of the best women architects (Role models February 11) was a good idea, and having worked with Lynne Sullivan at ECD, I agree with her inclusion.However, any such list should include Diana Jowsey at YRM: I doubt whether there are many who know more about healthcare ...
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OpinionTalkbox: Riccardo Marini
Mackintosh-trained architect Marini is Edinburgh’s design leader. He has been working with Terry Farrell to police the design quality of the city’s development, including the 18,000-home Leith Docks given the green light this week.
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The young need a land of opportunity
The nervousness in official circles about the chance of a successful roll-out for John Prescott’s Sustainable Communities Plan just won’t go away.
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Just for the Record
Thank you for publishing the Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland’s concerns regarding refurbishment of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Daily Record building (News February 11). It is in everyone’s interest to see it back in use, but that doesn't mean accepting something insensitive. Part of the proposal involved the insertion of a ...
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Ian Martin
I look forward to a remake of The Wild One, with Johnny and his gang on a trail of latte-fuelled rudeness through Godalming