All Letters to the editor articles – Page 38
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Opinion
Terry's not urban
Charles should not meddle in the democratic process, using deceitful and secret letters and emails to other country’s royals.
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Slaying monsters
Thank you Prince Charles for helping to stop such monsters from blighting this great city with such faceless banality
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Out of touch elite
Three cheers for Prince Charles! He has become the people’s champion on so many issues.
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Lost delicacy
As much as Richard Rogers’ oeuvre is to be admired, no one seems to have discussed the design of the Chelsea Barracks scheme itself – nothwithstanding Prince Charles’s predictable but injudicious and unconstitutional opposition to it, and Quinlan Terry’s indigestible neo-gothic courtyard alternative
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OpinionDon't run scared of Prince Charles
If the RIBA and the rest had had the balls to let Rogers’ Chelsea Barracks design go to planning, and welcome HRH’s views alongside the rest of the interested parties, this whole thing could have been thrashed out in the open, and perhaps we could have had a sensible debate ...
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Opinion
Corrections: 02 July 2010
Our story “Market garden plans for Chelsea Barracks” (News June 11) said that the new scheme would include a 44-storey tower
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OpinionBe prepared
The rejigging of regulations regarding water use has switched me into my Meldrew mode. Now, along with the Low Energy, Shut the Windows and Be Quieter Police come the more voyeuristic Bathwater Police
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Language lesson
As a teacher in a BSF school and someone who trained as an architect, I feel fairly well qualified to comment on the debate (“Has money been wasted on school design work?” Debate June 11)
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Duty of care
Thank you for the article about the renaming of the practice (New practice emerges as Buschow Henley relaunches, News June 11). My quote was, nevertheless, taken somewhat out of context
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OpinionA vision of virtual bliss
The obituary of Bill Mitchell and the iPad review were interestingly juxtaposed in last week’s BD
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Battle lines
Congratulations to Stephen Taylor/Brockmann Stierlin on their competition success for a Zurich housing project (News June 18) but surely no points for presentation.
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Seen it all before
I had to smile at the article on Save Britain’s Heritage’s report on transforming empty Victorian terraces into sustainable housing
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FeaturesDot to dot results: June 18 2010
The winner of last week’s competition was Nina Oortman of FAP Architects in London, who identified Le Corbusier’s Swiss Pavilion in Paris
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Learning process
The question of whether money has been wasted on school design work (Debate June 11) is not so clear cut. The Building Schools for the Future process has its pros and its cons.
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A head of steam
Owen Hatherley is right to bemoan the basic, utilitarian character of the new structures on the revived East London Line (Works June 11), but, although he tells us he lives in south-east London, he writes with all the myopia of the north Londoner who thinks that civilisation only exists where ...
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Let’s focus on improvement
As the Treasury anticipates efficiency measures which will inevitably impact on capital expenditure in construction, it may like to have a mind to the effect Building Schools for the Future (Debate June 11) has had on maintenance regimes within the secondary school sector.
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Opinion
Garden of Edam
Terry Brown’s comment (Letters June 11) on my article about Dutch-style intensive farming (Opinion June 4) misunderstands my point, which is that if we insist on cheap food and start to grow more of it in Britain, our countryside could become a hi-tech dystopia similar to that of the Netherlands.
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Hidden agenda
RIBA chief executive Harry Rich (Letters June 4) attempts to refute the reasons why Azar Djamali says she resigned as chairman at the start of the London Regional Council meeting on April 29. He says this meeting was “called and entirely administered properly”.