All Opinion articles – Page 367
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Ian Martin
Practitioners who continue to 'sport' bow ties and cravats put other team members at risk
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Groomed for role
Meanwhile, Lib Dem candidate Simon Hughes couldn’t come to the phone at first because he was having his hair cut. But once he was finished, Hughes dutifully fulfilled his role as a candidate by slagging off incumbent Ken Livingstone. Still, at least he will look dapper on the campaign trail.
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OpinionEva Jiricna
The government has invited the cream of young eastern European architectural talent to workshops on practising in the UK. Jiricna, who hails from the Czech Republic, will talk at the V&A next week about the emerging talent
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Other dimension
From one international superstar architect on a different planet to another. Daniel Libeskind waxes lyrical about his Danish Jewish Museum in a description of the scheme on his website. One particularly impenetrable sentence reads: “One of its internal planes, Exodus, is here turned to an urban space in which water ...
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Ripe for details
While not wishing to cast aspersions on the laudable aims of the recent study of race (News May 21), it is worth noting that there is a broad spectrum of socio-economic, geographical and temperamental characteristics covered by the term “white male”. At the risk of appearing flippant, a fruit and ...
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Crossrail towers
We would like to correct an error in BD’s recent story, “Foster’s tower power” (News April 23). Crossrail is not recruiting commercial architects to work up ideas for three new towers as part of the development of Tottenham Court Road station. No such towers are planned.
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OpinionDeciphering the code
Championed by the Prince of Wales, are design codes our salvation or defeat? An expansion of Northampton by Edaw will be an early test, writes Ellis Woodman; while Will Alsop and Paul Murrain argue the broader case
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Fees need to fund better planning
Should you or your client be made to pay for pre-planning discussions?
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Square bashing
Eva Jiricna joined the chorus of criticism of the new Paternoster Square this week. Branding the scheme “just rubbish”, Jiricna didn’t mince her words. She added: “It has got external promise, which disappears when you get inside. It’s deep, badly lit and uninteresting.”
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Money bags
International superstar architect Frank Gehry is not short of a bob or two. An obvious statement perhaps, but proof came this week when it emerged that Gehry took six months to cash his $60,000 Pritzker Prize cheque in 1989. Gehry said it led to a friendship with Jay Pritzker, who ...
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Safety in numbers
Your article “Architects ‘blithe’ on safety” (News May 14) quotes a RIBA statement I do not recognise. The Health & Safety Executive and practice department at the RIBA are in talks to increase the clarity of guidance to designers. Most of the issues flow from specification of materials, coupled with ...
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Missing the point
I fear Alexander Thompson may have missed the point (Letters May 7). It is the profession that is demanding universities change tack and teach the basic skills of practice, not the students. I completely agree that university is the place for stretching the mind and I am happy to learn ...
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Minority support
You arrive at university to take the first step to an exciting career as an architect. But you feel alone because there is no one else with your background. You find it harder than most to make ends meet. You discover that you are four times less likely than the ...
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Ian Martin
Every architecture critic in the world is gathered. It's like the Teddy Bears' Picnic, with the same sewn-in expressions
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Home from home
Opposition to the government’s plans to build 200,000 homes in the South-east has a new social strata of shock troops. The posh activists, including billionaire venture capitalist Ben Goldsmith, son of the legendary tycoon James, and Lady Tracy, Marchioness of Worcester, have formed the Manuka club to fight Prescott’s plan. ...
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Into the lions’ den
A public inquiry being held in a zoo? Wilkinson Eyre Architects’ scheme for a visitor centre at the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol is being challenged by local residents on road safety grounds, and, apparently, nearby Bristol Zoo really is the most convenient location for the two-day hearing.The other explanation, ...
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Delft long overdue
I believe the Delft Declaration is long overdue (News and Editorial May 14). It is significant that Schosa chose Delft for the launch of this manifesto as the TU Delft has a long tradition of teaching carried out by the profession itself. Indeed, following a brief visit to the new ...
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Power crazy?
I get to the special report (BD May 14) — Zaha Hadid in the top five? — and wonder what exactly is going on. What is a "power broker"? Who are these judges, and what is this bizarre mix of businessmen, politicians, contractors, a retailer, a footballer and some living ...
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Call the doctor
Architecture student and Dr Who fan Jake Theunissen has built a life-size Tardis in his back garden. The 28-year-old, who lives near Wrexham, built the plywood tribute to the Time Lord after downloading plans from the Internet. The model Tardis, which does not travel through time and is no bigger ...