All Opinion articles – Page 81
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Opinion
RIBA box ticking
I fail to understand why the RIBA makes it compulsory for practices who want to be chartered to have to have an environmental policy
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OpinionChipperfield's lucky escape
I can empathise with David Chipperfield’s disappointment for not being asked to develop his competition-winning Film Centre design for the BFI (News October 30). My 1995 design for it, for the south side of Tate Modern, was similarly superseded
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Wider tradition
If we follow Jonathan Glancey’s argument (October 30), we can’t win. If our survey on public taste in architecture compares similar things we’re superficial, but if we’d compared unlike things we’d be biased
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Movie puzzler
A lot of things puzzle me. One is sometimes why clients change architects. Chipperfield wins a competition. Eight years later the promoters get some extra money, decide that they have to hold a fresh competition and look for another architect when they had one of proven excellence. Why?
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Spurn this invite
Your readers may be aware of an invitation for expressions of interest for a sustainable housing scheme in Islington. The first stage submission asks “suppliers” to provide an AO board of conceptual design ideas for the site
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Structural flaw
Has any self-respecting architect ever disassociated structure and architecture?
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Solid structures
Not only was structural engineering (Letters October 16) part of the AA’s syllabus in the 1940s and 1950s, back in the 1960s (and of course before and after that golden age) it comprised an important part of the architecture syllabus at Edinburgh College of Art
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Some key points
Your report on designs for the new Tottenham Court Road station (News October 16) calls it “the first of three key interchange stations in the Crossrail project”. Three?
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OpinionCorrection
Last week’s news item on Project Orange’s forthcoming extension to the Moran Hotel in Chiswick was unfortunately accompanied by an image of the existing building.
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Goodbye to Berlin
“Welcome to Germany”... “Berlin Boost” (Letters October 23) — the navel-gazers put one in mind of the incomparable Mort Sahl, when contemplating the build quality of the VW Beetle: “How did they lose?”
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Still badly paid
The RIBA needs to be doing more to get a standard fee level agreed between architectural practices. This process should not involve clients at all
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OpinionGraphs belong to another era
I must admit I was surprised to learn that some practices still use the fee survey graph to calculate fees. Removing this from the RIBA A Client’s Guide to Engaging an Architect will surely be beneficial to architects and clients alike
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OpinionAD addendum
For the record, Monica Pidgeon (News: obituary September 25) didn’t publish Rem Koolhaas: that was Haig Beck in 1977, after she had left Architectural Design
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OpinionWelcome to Germany
I recently attended a splendid dinner in Berlin to celebrate the completion of David Chipperfield’s renovation of the Neues Museum.
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Food for thought
Having just returned from the Rotterdam Biennale, I can’t help but feel Oliver Wainwright’s write-up was a little harsh (Culture October 9)
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FO credentials
Your piece “Foreign Office U-turn over embassy costs” (News October 16) does not ring true in our experience
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Cockerell & bull
In the final episode of Kevin McCloud’s Grand Tour, earlier this month on Channel 4, I was distressed to hear McCloud attribute the design of St George’s Hall, in Liverpool, to Charles R Cockerell
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Berlin boost
I was passing through Berlin last week with three hours to spare and walked over to see the Neues Museum.