All Opinion articles – Page 71
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OpinionHow the other half builds
The gap between low-cost housing and luxury developments grows ever wider.
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Correction: 11 June 2010
Contrary to our story on page 2 last week, there is no current threat of redundancies at Nightingale Associates following its sale to Canadian firm, IBI Group. BD would like to apologise for the error.
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Where now for Battersea Power Station?
Years ago I had the pleasure of spending an evening with Rafael Vinoly. It began with a certain amount of drama as he insisted on driving down a one way street on the way to the restaurant.
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Why do architects choose names that require a BBC pronunciation manual?
If Buschow Henley wasn’t bad enough, the practice has now rebranded and come up with Henley Halebrown Rorrison guaranteed to be as troublesome to BBC newsreaders as al-Qa’eda and J K Rowling.
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Another day, another reason to lay into Michael Gove
Gove’s gaffes aren’t quite up there with Tony Hayward, BP’s chief executive. On the other hand it takes quite a lot to stir RIBA and by yesterday it was sufficiently wound up by the education secretary’s latest comment to put out a press release.
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Going Dutch offers food for thought
Should the UK sacrifice its land to the intensive farming methods of the Netherlands?
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Architecture’s final frontier
The Pantheon and the International Space Station share the ability of great buildings to inspire wonder
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OpinionWhy I resigned as London chair
As the former chairman of London Region, I wish to make clear the circumstances that lead to my resignation on April 29 this year
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OpinionPiano hits a bum note
Central St Giles exemplifies how, in London, grossly over-scaled buildings can be nodded through if a ’good designer’ is attached
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Time to move on
While it is difficult to commend the lack of masterplanning of Surrey Quays in the 1980s, I find Owen Hatherley’s political rant about the Conservatives (Opinion May 21) a reactionary jab following, presumably, an election result that he finds difficult to stomach
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Members only
Owen Luder says it appears RIBA staff have been taking sides in a dispute between elected officers
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OpinionSee Venice Little-Britain style
Shades of Vicky Pollard dominate the Venice Architecture Biennale
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OpinionThings look set to get grim up north
This year’s RSA exhibition points to a crisis of confidence among Scottish architects
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No pain, no gain
Many years ago, architectural draughtsmen – who were doing the architect’s work for him, and felt they were in fact propping him up on the technical side – got the hump.
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Correction
In our report on the RIBA Awards (News May 21), Walter Hall Primary School should have been credited to Architecture MK, Milton Keynes Council.
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Beware of cads
I read with interest the debate about sketching versus computer-generated images (Debate May 21).
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One size fits all
Following my letter published in BD May 14, I would like to clarify that I intended a general comment in agreement with the request by RIBA Council for declarations of interest to include all memberships of associations, clubs, and professional memberships
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OpinionQuangos quiver under Osborne's axe
Today is the dry run for the pain ahead, but already squeals can be heard from Cabe, from English Heritage and from the Tate. All have lost 3% of their annual budget, which doesn’t sound so bad, but Cabe is facing cuts of up to £800,000 in its annual budget, ...
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OpinionSurrey Quays, the real Tory heartland
The Conservative non-planners of the eighties have never been held to account for their legacy
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OpinionWhat a difference a day makes
The new architecture and heritage minister is not, after all, Ed Vaizey but John Penrose, who until the election was shadow minister for business, enterprise and regulatory reform.