All Opinion articles – Page 380
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Opinion
Halo slipping
Will Alsop’s vision to project a halo of light over Barnsley looks like being doused by storm clouds in the face of local opposition. The £500,000 halo idea, which is part of Alsop’s much-vaunted masterplan for the Yorkshire town, could be activated as early as next year. But some plain-speaking ...
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The show must go on
BD had trouble contacting Zaha Hadid to ask her about the Pritzker Prize this week. Her assistant said she wasn’t feeling well as she was too overwhelmed by all the media attention after the award was announced on Sunday. But Hadid managed to overcome her stage fright and fitted BD ...
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The full story
Your report, “Cabe chairman under scrutiny” (News March 19), suggests that “claims relate to glowing design reviews given by Cabe for a Stanhope scheme” and that “a rival scheme on the site… was given a poor review”. In this regard, you extract two highly selective quotes that do not ...
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Price fight
Still with Hadid. Right-wing US magazine The New Republic heralded her as “an awful choice for the Pritzker” this week. In a controversial editorial, The New Republic says the choice is a “fatal debasement of an award purportedly about rewarding excellence, not political correctness or trendiness”. Well, you can’t please ...
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A cool sum
More evidence has come to light of the lavish fittings of the new Scottish Parliament building at Holyrood this week after the revelation that the 92 toilets in the building cost more than £30,000 a piece, a total of £2.9 million. The latest luxury to emerge in the building, which ...
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Changing rooms
Do you live in a crummy run-down semi-detached house in central London? If you do and can leave the house completely empty for six months, you could play host to famous sculptor Gregor Schneider. The Venice Biennale prize-winning sculptor is looking for two identical, vacant suburban homes to take over ...
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Cabe: no mystery
I would like to correct two misrepresentations in your coverage of the forthcoming audit of Cabe’s procedures for dealing with conflicts of interest (BD March 19). First, your leader referred to Cabe’s design review process as “mysterious”. Since Cabe started work in 1999, we have reviewed several hundred projects ...
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OpinionWhy don't these Brits win YAYA?
It's the fourth year in a row a non-UK architect has won the Young Architect of the Year Award. Why are our bright young things losing out? Karen Glaser interviews young practices and some YAYA judges for answers
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The big conversation begins
John Prescott often says he is fed up of planners and architects failing to work together to deliver his beloved "wow factor" in Britain's buildings.
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Back to basics
In response to your article (News March 12), I have always considered Arb an irrelevance. Now it is just an expensive one.The Architects Act, which protects the term "architect", should be repealed. Some of the best architects I have worked with do not have any architectural qualifications. Some of the ...