All Letters to the editor articles – Page 23
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OpinionGive us more info about embassies
All very sad for those that failed to make the Foreign Office’s new framework agreement (“Embassy architects axed from Foreign Office work” News September 9), but there are lots of “award-winning” practices out there? Do we know who did make it?
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An inside view of Leicester's gem
Twenty-odd years ago, I was shown round the Leicester Engineering Building (Inspiration, September 2) by the then professor of engineering.
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Finance is the key to planning
Regarding proposed changes to planning rules, what’s needed is for the government to allow local authorities greater freedom to borrow money to finance infrastructure, acquire land and assemble development sites.
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RIBA’s attempts to be 'cool' make it irrelevant
In a week when the front pages of the right-wing national press have been filled with stories about planning legislation, is the RIBA lobbying a hostile government for a greater role for architects in delivering this “sustainable development”? No?
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Photographers need perspective
Photographers behave as if the imposition of their particular agenda is some God-given right (“Don’t photograph our building, say private security guards caught on film” bdonline August 19).
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Greenwich University must change course
Neil Spiller’s actions at Greenwich University come as no real surprise (“Spiller wields axe” News August 26).
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Traditionalist architects are blocked every time
Paul Finch has thrown down a challenge (Letters August 26) to prove bias in Cabe and says that the Traditional Architecture Group protesters don’t have direct experience.
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Getting the Nord story straight
I write in response to the piece in Boots (August 12) regarding Wexford County Council Headquarters. The project was designed by the practice Nord LLP, which was renamed Robin Lee Architecture in 2011.
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OpinionGive architects a role in investing in communities
The riots are a direct consequence of policies which alienate architects, pander to big business and line the pockets of bankers, developers, PFI companies, and other private organisations at the expense of the public purse.
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Cabe has no bias against tradition
It was cheering to read Francis Terry’s comment on Design Council Cabe (Debate August 12), since he has had direct experience of how we work, unlike Ptolemy Dean, Jonathan Glancey or Maritz Vandenberg in the same issue.
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Why do we need so many sheds?
Francis Maude is not the only minister to favour sheds (“Minister favours ’sheds’ for hospitals” News July 22).
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OpinionSainsbury faults not just stylistic
Richard Pain dismisses criticism of the National Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing as “petty stylistic squabbling” (Letters July 29), but the building’s faults are not due to its rather silly po-mo styling alone.
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OpinionCabe needs a peaceable chairman, not Paul Finch
When a public servant who has responsibility for running an impartial organisation, trusted by the public to make even-handed decisions on deeply controversial matters, has himself become part of the controversy, he can no longer do his job.
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Holes in Swiss school argument
Fees to study architecture in Switzerland might be cheaper, but I reckon that when you factor in the cost of living, you’re going to probably break even.
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Planning to fail in Southwark?
Last summer, New London Architecture hosted a debate that opposed the tower block and proposed the square as the appropriate building type for development in the capital.
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OpinionPraise where praise is due
How refreshing to read the words of an architect who so sublimely and fully understands her craft, who simply offers the work she and Robert Venturi did as a background for the lives of us all (“In defence of the Sainsbury Wing” Buildings July 22).
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The constraints of flexibility
The concept of “smartie-tube” buildings for flexibility strikes again (“Minister favours ’sheds’ for hospitals” News July 22) – a building envelope into which you can put anything!
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Community is key to Vauxhall
Some simple facts regarding Vauxhall Cross (Leader July 15): Vauxhall was identified as a site for tall buildings in 2002, but nothing was done about this until developers started working up schemes in 2006, when Lambeth commissioned some analysis from BDP.
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Clients need to recognise procurement potential
It is a shame that some clients overlook the flexibility that procurement based on points awarded to quality over price can offer (“c” News July 22).
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OpinionHadid's Riverside transport museum fails to tell the heroic story of Glasgow
Ten years ago I produced the masterplan for Glasgow’s transport museum.