All Letters to the editor articles – Page 32
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OpinionBSF fee claims are unjust
We believe BD’s story last week “The architects who billed £1m in BSF consultancy fees” to be unfair, disingenuous and misleading. The signatories of this letter represent most of the practices who are designing schools within the Birmingham BSF programme
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Blame game
In response to Tom Cordell’s comments on my review of his documentary Utopia London (Letters December 3) I’d like to reassert that there remains an awkward chronology in one section of his film
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Qualified success
I’m getting fed up with unqualified part II architects harping on about equivalence (News November 26)
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A new utopia
Otto Saumarez Smith’s review of Utopia London gives the impression that it is mainly about the LCC architects’ department
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Charge for Cabe
Regarding your front page this week (“Cabe set to be rescued by communities dept” News November 26) Cabe should spurn the opportunity of a taxpayer-funded resurrection and set itself up as a commercial operation, funded by the design service it sees itself as offering
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OpinionPhoto ban in ‘public’ spaces
I applaud BD drawing attention to the privatisation of London’s public space (“Mayor warned: London is being privatised” News November 26)
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Winning ways
Wouldn’t it be easier to describe all CIAT, Riba degree-level candidates as apprentice architects?
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OpinionLocal planning
Cabe chairman Paul Finch is on shaky ground in arguing that “anything in the built environment we admire had nothing to do with local communities putting in their ideas on design” (bdonline November 15)
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Memory lane
I enjoyed Owen Hatherley’s urban trawl (November 12) and look forward to the rest
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OpinionSurveying Robin Hood’s riches
As a member of the Twentieth Century Society, I deplore the statement on last week’s front page by its spokesman, condemning architects bidding for the Robin Hood Gardens site
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Fuelling debate
The Twentieth Century Society’s primary issue with the new proposals for Robin Hood Gardens, is rooted in questioning the client objectives and the brief, not the architects involved
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Seven year itch
Abolishing the final year of professional practice and absorbing part III examinations into part II seems on the cards if the EU/McGrath issue is to be resolved
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OpinionWhat’s wrong with part III?
So Paul McGrath would like to use the title of architect because he sees it as appropriate recognition for five years of study (News November 5)
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Housing vision
I read with interest Ed Hollis’s diatribe on the sad demise of council housing (November 12)
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Planning ahead
Your leader and Derek Abbott’s letter (November 12) made me recall my father, Roy Kantorowich, who is surely spinning in his grave, shouting “told you so” whether you like it or not
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The space age
William Fawcett (Letters, November 12) could not be more wrong in supposing that architects working in the public sector in the sixties were not supported by a body of research. At that time there was a constant stream of Building Bulletins from the Ministry of Housing & Local Government.In 1961 ...