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Are Boris Johnson’s priorities right when protecting London viewing corridors?

February 27th, 2009 The Sheet No comments

Amanda Baillieu:

Just as green belt land is often ordinary farmland with no special claim to preservation, we need to ask why we are protecting particular views that — with some notable exceptions — are no more special than others. Of course no one can not enjoy seeing St Paul's from the top of Primrose Hill or Richmond Park, but why is this more special than the view from the terrace of the National Theatre?

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Chipperfield’s Berlin Neues Museum (video)

February 27th, 2009 The Sheet No comments

Work has completed on David Chipperfield Architects’ dramatic remodelling of the Neues Museum. Take a sneak peak at the renovation work

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Grimshaw filters New York water

February 27th, 2009 The Sheet No comments

Grimshaw has unveiled its $95 million (£65 million) design for New York’s first water filtration plant

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Boris Johnson criticises Foster and partners when giving them award

February 27th, 2009 The Sheet No comments

At Building, Michael Willoughby:

Mayor Boris Johnson attacked his workplace, the 2002 Greater London Authority (GLA) building, as one of the worst in London shortly before handing its developer a planning award.

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More than enough for Boris

February 27th, 2009 The Sheet No comments

Mayor of London Boris Johnson was on top form at the London Planning Awards on Tuesday night in Foster & Partners’ City Hall, part of the More London development

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Steven Holl’s 4 in1 Shenzhen tower

February 26th, 2009 The Sheet No comments

Steven Holl Architects has won a competition to design the masterplan of the 4 in 1 tower in Shenzhen.

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Pritzker winner Sverre Fehn dies

February 26th, 2009 The Sheet No comments

Norwegian Priztker Prize winner Sverre Fehn died on Monday at the age of 84.

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Vinoly’s Battersea eco-tower scrapped

February 26th, 2009 The Sheet No comments

Back to the drawing board for power station developer after mayor signals his opposition

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3XN wins competition for Danish arts museum

February 25th, 2009 The Sheet No comments

3XN has won an architecture competition to design the new Randers Museum of Art in Denmark, beating a shortlist that included Zaha Hadid and Coop Himmelb(l)au

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Boris Johnson has broken pledge on tall buildings says Simon Jenkins

February 25th, 2009 The Sheet No comments

Simon Jenkins in the Standard:

Boris Johnson swore that he would rescind Livingstone's towers. He told all comers that he would "stop the madness". Yet no sooner was he in "the testicle" than he craved a phallus. The developer lobbyists got to him and undermined his self-confidence.

The Mayor, of course, doesn't see it quite that way. Whatever, Jenkins might reflect that several boroughs have lobbied for towers too and that he, like Boris, spoke during the election campaign in favour of boroughs being free from bossy mayors. You can't have it both ways.

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