All Letters to the editor articles – Page 2
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OpinionSpitalfields site belongs to us all
One of the campaigners against Scabal’s new building in the shadow of Hawksmoor’s Christ Church states the case for demolition
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OpinionDo it to the letter or not at all
Do words mean more than letters when it comes to an architect’s status?
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OpinionSerpentine should know better... and so should Peter Cook
Jean-Paul Jaccaud enters the debate over BD’s review of the new Sackler Gallery by Zaha Hadid
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OpinionNo defence for Hadid's Sackler design
Alan Power responds to Peter Cook’s attack on BD’s review of the Serpentine Sackler Gallery by Zaha Hadid
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OpinionA whip-round for the Stirling Prize winner?
It’s great that one of the younger generation of less established architects has won the Stirling Prize. Well done Witherford Watson Mann
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OpinionEU system would be a backward step for architecture schools
The central point of Patrick Lynch’s argument is: “Until we follow the EU and ditch the RIBA visiting boards, we don’t know what UK qualifications mean any more.” What a bizarre argument.
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OpinionFarrell's attack is far too brutal
Readers respond to the “vigorous attack” on post-war architecture
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OpinionNon-EU students want to qualify
A great component of UK architecture education is acquired in practice.
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OpinionPart III needs to be maintained
What is the problem with part III? (“ RIBA and Arb to reform education ” News September 20) If you can reliably carry out the role of an architect, it should pose no issue.
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OpinionLet's learn a new civic language
Ellis Woodman touches on something very important in his review of Peter Barber’s extension to ET Hall’s Poor Law Guardians’ Office ( Buildings September 20 ), when he talks about its “sense of civic decorum”.
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OpinionLand and money still conquer all
Although I would love to agree with Sarah Wigglesworth ( Polemic September 20 ), my problem with her argument is that her modern examples of spatial occupation are all very transient.
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OpinionLibrary lacks right references
Your piece on John Madin’s Redditch library ( Archive August 30 ) was very interesting.
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OpinionKeep skating options open
We believe that the best solution to the South Bank skate area is that skateboarding be kept at the undercroft, either as it is or in some kind of modified or even, ideally, expanded manner ( News September 13 ).
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OpinionWe must keep up our standards
We should be far more worried about the real risk of no space standards at all than about the slim chance of a cross-tenure, three-tier standard ( Letters September 13 ).
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OpinionHatherley's not listening enough
Owen Hatherley’s critique of GCHQ ( Opinion September 13 ) was as superficially vacuous as the apparently empty centre of the doughnut he chose to relieve his thinly veiled political prejudices on.
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OpinionViñoly shaped his own destiny
Rafael Viñoly could have dropped out of the Walkie-Talkie project if he is unhappy about the conditions of working in the UK ( News September 13 ).
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OpinionIt's a depressing outlook for UCL
In view of the fact that some of UCL’s student flats are windowless and some look out on a wall just one metre away ( Carbuncle Cup August 30 ) …
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OpinionFraenkel seems frankly confused
Last week, in response to Stephen Hodder’s views on the need for evidence proving the worth of architecture, you published a short admonitory letter ( Letters September 13 ) with plenty of impact: “huge amount of evidence on design impacting on human behaviour… quality of design and environment impacts on ...
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Space standards need simplifying
I notice ( Debate August 30 ) that Andrew Beharrell sees the possible three-tier system of space standards outlined in the Housing Review as being too complex and perhaps intended to kick the problem into the long grass.