All Columnists articles – Page 47
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Opinion
Entrance to Hades
Ellis Woodhead calls Zaha Hadid’s Maggie’s Centre in Fife “architecture of a very high order”.
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Too much detail
BD seems to be following much of the rest of the magazine industry in its reliance on large images to fill pages when a smaller one with more informative and quality text would be far preferable.
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Housing renewal needs quality control
Anyone who has struggled in assembling a Billy bookcase from their local Ikea may wonder what challenges await those brave enough to buy one of their prefabricated homes.
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Inside view
I am lost in admiration for the wonderful sculptural building Hadid has created in Kirkcaldy and for the fact that she and others designing for the same trust have given their services for free. I hope the Maggie’s Centres will find the finance to develop and build the further four ...
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Fit for purpose?
The new cancer centre by Zaha Hadid certainly seems a most imaginative piece of sculpture, but I wonder whether, as a building for restorative care, it will it be up to the job?
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Stress factors
Am I alone in wondering if the sycophantic admiration for Zaha’s new creation is missing some vital points?
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Going up not down
There is no truth in the implied quote — MacCormac: practice “in freefall” (News October 20).
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Don’t be invisible — shout louder
Last week I was lucky enough to be invited to Venice as part of the RIBA annual conference, looking at architecture’s broader impact on both the environment and society.
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North south divide
I much appreciate the way BD tries to promote the interests of women in architecture.
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OpinionCancer is challenge enough, Zaha
Like, I am sure, all too many of BD’s readers I have had several family members and friends who have faced life-threatening cancer. In dealing with this disease members of my family have benefited enormously from the level of care, compassion, useful information and good cheer offered at Richard Murphy’s ...
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Not black or white
Regarding your report on diversity in the profession (News October 27), to me, the true position lies across both points of view, that of Richard Rogers and Sunand Prasad.
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Jowell ducks 2012 design responsibility
From Nervi’s stadium for the Rome games to Isosaki’s for Barcelona, it’s hard to think of an Olympics where the architecture has not been commissioned by the host nation as a work of civic stature with international status.
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FeaturesWhy do we create grand spaces
I am, not surprisingly, interested in the design of public buildings, sitting as I do in an office in the National Gallery overlooking the new public space of Trafalgar Square now transformed from a torrent of double-decker buses into an open, more continental plaza.
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FeaturesWhy can’t our buildings look as good inside as out?
I last visited 30 St Mary Axe before the latest round of security hysteria, and even then the experience was more like proceeding through a small airport than a high-spec office building.