All Opinion articles – Page 82
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Biting back
In Andrew Mead’s rather sour review of my new book, The Freedoms of Suburbia (Culture October 2), he seems to be still brooding — 40 years on — about the anarcho-libertarian Non-Plan special issue of New Society magazine, which I wrote with Reyner Banham, Peter Hall and Cedric Price in ...
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Alive and well
Please apprise Jonathan Glancey (October 16) of the fact that Civic Trust Awards are still going ahead and that there are a lot more this year
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OpinionBetter training, better decisions
It may well be that many councillors who sit on planning committees have no prior knowledge or training in any aspect of the built environment and are ill equipped to pass judgment on schemes that come before them
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OpinionVictim of success
It was sobering that the only attractive illustration in your article on the West Riding (Urban Trawl October 2) was Frank Matcham’s restored County Arcade in Leeds
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Failing to foster
For institutional and regulatory reasons, and with some important exceptions, the huge creative opportunity presented by the games has not been adequately used to harness and promote young and emerging design talent.
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CPD rules Europe
Paula Mendez (Letters October 2) is wrong to state that qualifying in Spain takes less time than in England.
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OpinionArched feat
Your coverage of the plan to rebuild the Euston Arch omits a key fact: the new arch is proposed in the wrong place (it was never in Euston Square but a couple of blocks to the north)
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Alsop sadness
You know you’ve hit rock bottom when your best option is to become part of the “world domination” team of RMJM (News October 2)
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Correction: 02 October 2009
Our review of Land Architecture People (Culture September 25) described co-curator Clare Melhuish as a critic
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OpinionDon't catch the British disease
Amanda Baillieu (Leader September 25) condemns Crossrail as a project “destined to go down as the bargain basement version of the hugely admired Jubilee Line extension”
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Why study here?
I completely agree with Jasmine Blood (Letters September 25). If EU students want to register as architects in the UK, they should go through part III as UK students do. By not doing so, Arb is not only failing to protect the public but this is also detrimental to our ...
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OpinionOne in the eye
Although it is fantastic to see a medical building evolving from the norm, I can’t help but think Toh Shimazaki’s eye surgery (Works September 25) looks pretty nasty as a piece
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Cross purposes
I disagree fundamentally with your assertion (Leader September 25) that Crossrail will not be a project the mayor will want to be remembered for and that there is a lack of architectural ambition on the project. Also the headline “Crossrail design disappoints Cabe” (News September 11) was misleading as it ...
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Challenge Arb
I share Jasmine Blood’s concern over the iniquity of the current system for registering architects, which seems to unfairly favour EU registrants at the expense of UK students (Letters September 25)
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We’ll do the math
I wish to clarify the situation regarding the authorship of the masterplan for the former Radcliffe Infirmary site in Oxford (News analysis September 18)
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OpinionCladding is not just skin deep
To answer Owen Hatherley’s rather naive question about over-cladding older residential tower blocks (Opinion September 18), most residential blocks have to be refurbished and upgraded with residents in place.
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OpinionUrban legend
The very first issue that I bought of Monica Pidgeon’s AD was January 1960 on Frank Lloyd Wright
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Undue influence
As one of the candidates that stood for election for the Arb, I was pleased to see the ruling by the Advertising Standards Authority (News September 11)
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Female drought
A full-page advertisement for the Thames Gateway Forum (BD September 18) lists speakers at a forthcoming meeting of the Forum in November
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Dress the part
As a part II student studying for the RIBA part III examinations in order to be registered as an architect, I was shocked to find out that an EU student can gain entry to the register by simply demonstrating four years of academic qualification and two years of professional experience