All Letters to the editor articles – Page 34
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End of the five-year course?
Schosa may well be right in thinking that the cost of tuition fees may become a more significant factor as students decide whether it is worth joining the architecture profession (News, October 15).
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Stirling work
I was surprised at your dissent last week about the Stirling Prize verdict (Leader October 8)
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Village politics
When the Community Right to Build scheme was originally announced, with the approval threshold set at 90%, it seemed highly unlikely that we’d hear much more about it, but Shapps’ recent announcement (News September 27) certainly suggests it will make it into the upcoming Localism Bill.If any CRTB projects do ...
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Work with us, not against us
Heads of schools of architecture do not want the future funding of architectural education to further limit the diversity of the profession
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Time will tell
Your report “Architects take heat for high cost of BSF” (News October 1) shows how incredibly weak the profession is. In other European countries, people with the views preached by Michael Gove and Toby Young are marginalised as raving lunatics.I simply refuse to believe there is no scientific material available ...
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OpinionRegaled/rejected
You might be interested to compare these images of the Stirling-winning Maxxi and the recently-rejected-for-listing South Bank Centre. If I was using the Private Eye format, I might switch the names.The RIBA website today calls the Maxxi “a building for the staging of art”. Don’t we have one of those ...
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Simple lessons
Toby Young and Jonathan Ellis-Miller (Debate October 1) are after the same things: a dignified, cultured environment where children feel safe, confident and happy in their surroundings, an environment that need not be over-designed or costly. What’s striking is the inability of the profession, and potential clients, to communicate what’s ...
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Learning from the past
As politicians and programme managers struggle with cutting investment in school buildings they should remember that we have been this way before, and learn from the mistakes of the past
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OpinionCareless talk
The idea that a school should have won this year’s Stirling Prize to send out “the right message” is wrong (just as Accordia winning was a message-sender). The social aspect of architectural practice is overplayed nowadays.Teachers know more about what makes a great school than architects ever will. When DRMM’s ...
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OpinionShaky principles
I can’t look at MVRDV’s Balancing Barn without humming that tune “This is the Self-Preservation Society” or, for that matter, wanting to blow a little more than the bloody doors off it
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Vintage harvest
John Pawson serving 2003 Chateau Margaux at his private view (Boots September 24)?
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OpinionWhere to draw the line?
Last week’s news that the King Abdullah Sports City project has been slashed may have been a calamity in terms of fees for the practices involved, but as someone who worked on the project (and resigned) it came as a relief
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Clocking off
I support all Tom Ball says on the 2012 countdown clock in Trafalgar Square (Letters September 24)
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Capital notion
I have often used the anecdote of Cedric Price at the 1978 ArtNet event (Archive September 24) as an illustration of how architecture can enable and assist human behaviour (for better or worse)
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Building blocks
In response to your report on Libya (“Author urges architects to reconsider Libya work” News September 17), I lived in Libya for most of 2005, working on Great Man-Made River pumping stations projects. I lived in Sirt, about halfway between Tripoli and Benghazi. I may have been the only UK ...
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Ranting at Raven
If the modern professional design student is no longer tied to the workspace (Ravensbourne College, Works September 17) why an eight-storey decorated shed stuck out in Greenwich?
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Follow Jamie
I am sure I am not the only architect that recalls the legacy of education in wretched temporary buildings; dispirited teachers trying to instil some form of education into uninterested and callow youth, closeted in drab green huts, propped up and mired in the mud, with buckets in strategic places ...
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OpinionCounted out
Westminster City Council Planning Committee gave planning consent to the 2012 countdown clock in Trafalgar Square (News September 17) because it is “temporary” and “exceptional”: hardly the Olympic spirit
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Cut the conflict
The Conservative MP quoted so prominently in last week’s BD (“Fears grow for Dewsbury regeneration masterplan” News September 17) has not seen the Dewsbury proposals and is now greatly embarrassed since the strategy has no pretty architectural pictures: it is economically driven and suggests a new local economy built on ...
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OpinionCentre is ageing healthily
As the original architects of Bethnal Green Health Centre we commend the internal refit Theis & Khan has carried out on our 1980s design