All Opinion articles – Page 346
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In perspective
I get nervous when “gender equality” is equated with making accommodations for women’s supposed desire for a life/work balance.
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We need women
In response to BD’s “Who’s in our sights” listing (News January 7), Stephen George & Partners would like to employ more female architects, but the 50/50 campaign seems somewhat flawed, simply because only 14.6% of architects are female.
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Modern manners
Wells Coates’s Isokon may deserve a small place in history, but Embassy Court certainly does not (Works January 21) .
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Ian Martin
This year all the big clients are more interested in getting into the Guinness Book of Records than winning the Stirling
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Is high-rise really such a tall order?
At the Sustainable Communities Summit next week, John Prescott will push his vision for high-density, low-rise solutions to the housing crisis. But this single-minded, traditional approach has limitations.
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A critical debate
Are we losing architecture? Foster, it seems, is suffering from the same affliction as indie rockers and rappers once they become rich and successful.
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Take it on the chin
Alsop’s letter only helped to confirm the public’s impression that architects are arrogant egomaniacs.
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Brits must grasp Gateway nettle
If the 2002 Urban Summit was anything to go by, the 2,000 delegates at next week’s second leg in Manchester will witness a smoothly executed exercise in New Labour propaganda.
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OpinionConcrete Boots
Cabe to the rescueCabe left no stone unturned when writing its report on design codes. The commission held a series of “code-busting workshops” with planning officers, designers and developers to put its findings to the test. All together now — who you gonna call? Code-busters.Risky jumpersThere may be many strange ...
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Hes only just begun
How bitter is Clifford Bannister’s letter (January 7). Adjaye has got a phenomenal amount of good PR and press.
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Arrogance of the would-be radical
A feeble attempt at humour scarcely disguises the petulance of Will Alsop’s response to criticism (Letters January 21) by questioning the credentials of your excellent buildings editor in daring to comment on his Goldsmiths building.
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Flash alternative
Has it not occurred to have-it-all architect fathers who love long hours that it’s perfectly possible to have a “blinding flash of inspiration” on the bus to the nursery?Catherine Brownell, London
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We can all benefit
A feminist campaign to promote the interests of women? There is nothing in the 50/50 Charter that would not benefit men as well as women.
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With regret
I would like to extend my deepest sympathies to the Architecture Foundation on the result of its competition.Sam Jacob, London
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We must do more
As one of the architects featured on your cover (News January 7), I would like to congratulate you on your campaign.
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Stone-age man
Whatever else your admirable 50/50 campaign achieves, it has exposed some chauvinistic attitudes among your male readers.
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Ian Martin
Prescott calls our bluff. He’s called in some young mudflat regeneration crew called Urban Plop
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Succumbing to the hard sell
We have finally succumbed to the death of any sort of utopian goals in architecture by simply allowing products to be presented as cultural icons without attempting to attach a level of critical reflection.