All Opinion articles – Page 65
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OpinionFixing the regeneration game
The London Plan should adopt measures to stop regeneration failing the very people it is intended to help
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Time off studies for good behaviour?
The imminent spending review will force architecture course providers to get creative.
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OpinionDon’t monkee with South Bank
The new generation of MPs could do with a solid grounding in architectural principles
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Redesigning Stuttgart with vuvuzelas
Noisy protests over its railway station scheme are helping to redefine a changing city
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OpinionGames failure is symbolic
The New Delhi bridge collapse reminds rising economic powers of the global imagery of architecture
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Who do we think we are kidding?
The trend for invoking the Blitz spirit reveals the hollowness of the new architecture of austerity
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OpinionOne supersize doesn’t fit all
Bigger isn’t necessarily better when it comes to urban design.
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OpinionDon’t ditch Dewsbury plans
If Cabe is to be relevant it needs to learn that architecture can no longer be treated in isolation
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Lead by example
Prince Charles’s Natural House is now expected to complete in early 2011 (News September 10).
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Schoolboy error
The problem with Michael Gove’s “wise men” who are reviewing the Department for Education’s capital spending programme is they are not construction professionals.
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Clean streets
Daniel Moylan is right about the need to reduce street clutter. (Debate September 3)
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OpinionDon’t pooh-pooh this change
Even before it’s finished, Barbican residents are debating a possible sobriquet for One New Change – the Jean Nouvel shopping complex in the City.
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OpinionHas Cabe got the teeth to tackle poor design?
No, says Rowan Moore, the watchdog is too close to the professionals it assesses; but Richard Simmons feels Cabe goes as far as it can without statutory powers.
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OpinionCastles in the air
The winning dinosaur entry for your 1975 Natural History Museum competition (Archive August 13) reminded me of my own submission, which illustrated an entirely flexible floor mega-structure surrounding the lodge. What was I thinking?
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Correction: 17 September 2010
Ferguson Mann’s proposal to redevelop the Tropicana centre in Weston-super-Mare (News September 10) is a collaboration with S&P and not Faulkner Brown as we were originally told.
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Manchester wins
I doubt anyone in Leeds would question John Thorp’s endeavour as civic architect, and he has been a rare sane voice at Plans Panel, where design knowledge is scarce to say the least
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Try real localism
Seeing as Michael Gove and the coalition government are allegedly so keen on decentralisation and giving power back to local authorities, he should allow each local authority the autonomy to decide how best to procure a new school building.
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No inspiration
Those of us who objected to Argent’s slash and burn “regeneration” of the King’s Cross site knew there was a major risk that the land between the grade I stations would become a no-place, devoid of character
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OpinionWelcome to the future of education
Michael Gove’s architect-free pledge leaves Tesco and Curry’s to guide us on school-building
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OpinionThree meals a day with Foster
A profile of artist and chair of the Architecture Foundation Brian Clarke appeared in the Daily Telegraph this week under the perhaps fractionally over-egged headline “Brian Clarke: Rock Star of Stained Glass”.