All Opinion articles – Page 350
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Freedom suit split
Concerning the lawsuit filed by a Yale architecture student (News November 12), who claims his design was used as the basis for the design of the Freedom Towers, it separates Daniel Libeskind’s contributions (the height, the shape of the spire to echo the the Statue of Liberty’s torch) from David ...
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Lie detector
In your article (News November 19) concerning Arb’s accusation that BT is wrongly listing individuals as architects, you quote a BT spokesman as saying that “it is up to the architects not to lie to us”. He is describing the people concerned as architects, which if they are lying they ...
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Yearning for the old school days
Zoë Blackler’s editorial (November 19) misses the point, which is that architectural education, as we have known it since the 1958 Oxford Conference, and the universities’ research assessment exercise are incompatible.
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Crate waste
I was discouraged to find another potential worry for those who care about timber.
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Bravo Cabe
Croydon councillor Adrian Dennis (Letters November 12) calls for a “root-and-branch shake-up” of Cabe and criticises it for being “cliquey” and a “gentleman’s club”.
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OpinionConcrete Boots
Comic inspirationThe headquarters of the Prince’s Foundation in London’s fashionable Hoxton is well stocked with books, but a closer look at the collection reveals some surprising titles. For example, the foundation is the last place one would expect to see graphic novels by controversial and often lewd comic-book artist Robert ...
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Raising the bar
There have been continuing controversial issues relating to the Temple Bar, one of which is whether or not it is Wren’s work (News Analysis November 19).
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Wrong Trousers
We have been instructed by our esteemed client, Mr Fred Trousers, to take action against BD for misleading impersonation. The clear impression was given that Mr Trousers had written the cunningly conceived “inverted pyramid of piffle” on the back page of last week’s issue. This, together with the digitally enhanced ...
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Teaching should be schools’ priority
When the news first broke that the Cambridge architecture school was in crisis, it seemed only a matter of time before the rest suffered a similar fate. Now other schools in the prestigious Russell Group are under pressure to improve their research performance, at the expense of their traditional emphasis ...
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Plenty of time
Poor old Christoph Egret. According to Zoë Blackler (News Analysis November 12), “at 45 he is running out of time to build his own independently authored body of work”. Let’s hope not. He is half the age of Anthony Swain (Soapbox October 22), who gave up climbing scaffolding last ...
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Penguin palace
What do you get if you take an igloo, a train, an airplane, a fishing trawler and a very cute-looking penguin. Well, according to Richard Rogers Partnership, a new research station for the British Antarctic Survey in Antarctica. Rogers’ shortlisted submission for the RIBA-run competition is a triumph of simple ...
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In need of a leader
Kevin Rhowbotham is clearly annoyed by his treatment at the Architectural Association and its failure to renew his contract (News November 5).He talks of a terminal situation, but, perversely, it is crisis and internal conflict that keeps the AA alive. I would suggest that, more importantly, the AA ...
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Jacob Kinderegg
I am here to discuss the future of the extension I have designed, the ‘Radical Corkscrew’
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Fee hike hits the most vulnerable
Here we go again. The most vulnerable are the ones to suffer in the so-called drive to improve efficiency (“Crackdown on foreign architects”, News November 5).What is the justification for an almost 500% increase by Arb in the cost for getting non-EU part I and part II equivalent qualifications recognised?The ...
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Go the extra mile
I believe the RIBA is being unnecessarily harsh on Arb (News November 5) with regards to the 500% increase in fees to recognise non-EU part I and II equivalent degrees.The new fee of £1,996 I am to pay merely covers the expense of one return flight to New ...
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Egged on
Massimiliano Fuksas has reason to celebrate this week after winning the commission to regenerate Salford — his first project on British soil. How he plans to toast this success is anyone’s guess, but the world-famous architect does have a liking for an extremely expensive substance — caviar.Interviewed by BD this ...
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Fame drain
Our practice, along with 200 others, entered the Architecture Foundation’s design competition for its new headquarters. Like other small, “unknown” practices, we were encouraged to read that the AF “have no prejudices as to the fame or experience of the eventual winner”. But we were disappointed by the shortlist.Although there ...
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Fashion darlings
It’s official: DRMM has arrived in fashionable circles, having just made it on to Vogue magazine’s “must-know who, what, where, how and why of the moment list”. Alongside pictures of Scarlett Johansson, Sienna Miller, Kirsten Dunst, José Antonio Reyes and Sam Taylor Wood are Philip Marsh, Sadie Morgan and Alex ...