All Opinion articles – Page 76
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OpinionAxe BSF and save us £2.3bn
When the Building Schools for the Future programme was launched in 2004, ministers promised it would result in every state secondary school in England being rebuilt or refurbished by 2020
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Refrain, please
I find myself equally affronted by both protagonists in your debate “Should architects try harder to please the public?” (February 19)
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OpinionCan we be frank?
David Chipperfield writes of the need for “sympathetic clients, open-minded planning committees and an informed public” in the context of “an atmosphere that does not encourage good design”
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Northern delights
Carolyn Steel (Opinion February 5) concentrates on just one of Asplund’s works but, in my view, his greatest achievement was his woodland cemetery, for its unique attention to detail and landscapeWhen I visited Asplund’s Gothenburg Law Courts extension as a student over 60 years ago it was the wonderful interior ...
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OpinionPoundbury’s public deceit
Malcolm Millais (Debate February 19) accuses architects of living in their own narcissistic ghetto and ignoring public opinion. He cites Poundbury as a prime example of what people really want but, if this is the apogee of public taste, god help us all
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Kick for Cabe
It is regrettable that the Homes & Communities Agency (HCA) has decided to reduce the involvement of the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (Cabe) in Round 2 of Kickstart
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OpinionCompetition not cronyism
Britain needs more competitions and more clients like the US government, not fewer
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OpinionUnreconstructed
When my beautiful Mark VII Jaguar sustained an ugly crumple to the offside wing, I took it to the garage for repairs with the express instructions that they ignore the mildly patinated and seductively curved bottle-green original coachwork but rather patch the offending area with some functional construction in angled ...
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Do the sums
We must have great sympathy with Paul Dinsdale (Letters February 12) about the lack of work but when are fellow architects going to realise that in a career of 50 years there will be four or five recessions and there is nothing the RIBA can do about it
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Starting point
There has been a great deal of coverage recently on the schemes funded under the first round of Kickstart
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OpinionChipping in on the debate
How arrogant of me to be frustrated that the architecture correspondent of our most respected newspaper refused to comment on a project that took 11 years and was the subject of intense debate and criticism in every other European newspaper
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Icing on the cake
I was pleasantly surprised to be contacted for cake orders when my photograph appeared in BD last Friday (Letters February 12)
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FeaturesDot to dot results: February 12 2010
Last week’s winner was Alistair Fair of Cambridge University architecture department, who identified Peter Moro’s Nottingham Playhouse
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Swede and sour
I was left rather puzzled and bemused by Carolyn Steel’s article (Opinion February 5)
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OpinionPositively wrong
Your front page (February 5) asks: “Where have all the architects gone?” and reports that the RIBA “doesn’t know where the 2,500 architects who haven’t signed up for Jobseekers Allowance have gone”
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OpinionFame and misfortune
Clarity, I often think, is overrated. As Burke knew, a clear idea is another name for a little idea. But I’d nonetheless like to clarify a small item in last week’s Boots
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Power failure
If the London mayor is “confident about Viñoly Battersea plan” (News February 5) then he has not understood it, like so many who are taken in by the highly sophisticated illustrations, he believes the pretty pictures
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Quality at a cost
Carolyn Steel’s article on Swedish architectural quality (Opinion February 5) brought to mind my visit to Stockholm about 16 years ago, from which I have two vivid memories