All Letters to the editor articles – Page 40
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Beware of cads
I read with interest the debate about sketching versus computer-generated images (Debate May 21).
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One size fits all
Following my letter published in BD May 14, I would like to clarify that I intended a general comment in agreement with the request by RIBA Council for declarations of interest to include all memberships of associations, clubs, and professional memberships
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OpinionSticking point
The problems raised by Charles Bain Smith (Letters May 7) appear to have been “resolved in part” by Theis & Khan, as shown in Works of your May 14 issue
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OpinionWho will pay for our memorials?
Despite there being a moratorium on memorials in London’s Royal Parks, and the recommendations by the planning officers of City of Westminster to refuse the application, Westminster’s planning committee has approved the Bomber Command Memorial for Green Park, an irrelevant and ridiculous 100m-long grand colonnade on Piccadilly – a colonnade ...
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Legislate now
As a long-in-the-tooth chartered architectural technologist, well versed in building regulations and providing clients with a good service I am bound by a code of conduct that states quite clearly that full members of the Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologist offering architectural services are required to carry professional indemnity insurance.If ...
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Please leave now
Architects spend their lives whining, blaming Conservative governments and playing the martyr, almost revelling in their tough education and massive redundancies in the bad times
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Sad slave labour
What a sad profession architecture really is - practices only kept economic by slave labour hours, by graduates who will be sacked the next day once whatever horrible, meritless building they are working on has moved on from documentation stage
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One step beyond
Your correspondents (Letters May 14) showed proper concern for child safety in the precise spacing of balusters
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Shoddy masonry
We need an RIBA with a spine that stands up for the profession rather than a “yes body”. We also need an institute that has a council with no conflicts of interest whatsoever, as the “fingers in pies” scenario on any panel is highly detrimental to it functioning properly
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Use your head
Charles Bain Smith (Letters May 7) seems to have a smattering of gynaecological knowledge which doesn’t seem all that applicable to staircases.
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The grisly truth
The question last week about the 100mm rule on staircases has a slightly grisly answer I think.
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OpinionGove must try harder, not us
As an architect who has been working on school projects, including BSF schemes for the last 15 years, I feel I have to respond to Michael Gove’s statement that architectural practices “have done so well out of the Building Schools for the Future programme by creaming off cash which should ...
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Correction
Contrary to our report last week, the Olympic Park wind turbines are not being developed by Atkins but by the firm Quiet Revolutions
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Time for change
In common with many others, I am beginning to despair of the RIBA. Its timid approach on the low pay issue, the disarray of RIBA London, and the council members who have not signed the declaration of interests form, thereby potentially making council decisions open to challenge, are all signs ...
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Going it alone
I much enjoyed the article “Orange is the only Fruit” on the Lakerlopen Housing Project by Biq (Works April 30).
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RIBA stands by as we lose work
Jane Duncan, RIBA practice vice-president, emailed members last week on low pay
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Learn from this
“Job losses are also expected at the Business Academy, Bexley, which has a £500,000 budget deficit brought about by expensive repairs to its £31 million Norman Foster building.” Times Educational Supplement reporting on teacher redundancies
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Don’t forget us
John Kellett (Letters April 23) says architects are the only professionals qualified to design buildings from conception to completion
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Baby steps?
Does anyone out there know why the building regulations say that a railing to a stairs must be constructed so a 100mm diameter sphere cannot pass through the railings at any point