All Letters to the editor articles – Page 43
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Getting the hump
Last week’s BD featured a large photograph of a Children’s Centre in Barnes (Works March 12)
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Ease planning
Last week’s leader berates developers for not getting on with developing derelict brownfield sites
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OpinionDevaluing the profession
In the summer I had an interview with James Parritt, who claimed Parritt Leng had plenty of work and was not feeling the recession like other practices, contrary to partner Kuan Leng’s comments (News March 12)
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Correction
A review of Farshid Moussavi’s book The Function of Form (Culture March 5) incorrectly described Moussavi as a former partner in Foreign Office Architects
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Cheap labour
During the last major downturn I applied for a job advertised for a part II architect. During the interview I was told that my role would involve mostly dealing with the public on the telephone
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OpinionShoal patch
I would like to clarify that the Shoal at Stratford (News February 19) is not intended to hide the Stratford Centre but — together with the less talked about public realm improvements across the wider town centre — to set a confident tone for the current and dynamic regeneration of ...
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Out of the picture
As an archivist I find you bring a very salutary element of architectural reality into a very large architectural archive where “modern” mainly refers to the 1930s-1960s
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Object lessons
Re “Cabe told assessors to destroy scores” (News February 26), I have experienced a similar practice of being required to return sheets with scores and notes at meetings called to consider submissions for public art projects
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OpinionNo entrance?
With reference to your article on Sanaa’s Rolex Learning Centre in Lausanne (Works March 5), the bottom left photograph on page 28 is subtitled “A freestanding canopy marks the entrance at the centre of the plan”
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OpinionLet’s draw a veil over this idea
Much like Jonathan Glancey (March 5) I was shocked when made aware of the proposals to partly transform the RIBA into a “wedding venue” (News February 26)
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Correction
Alan Short (“Glass buildings are set to become pariahs” News March 5) is professor of architecture at Cambridge University, not head of architecture as stated.
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Classic error
In case BD readers think I have gone mad, I most certainly did not write “Paternoster Square never goes away, it has the longest pedigree of all the styles” in your 40th anniversary celebration
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No to Battersea
Your story “Cabe backing fuels Viñoly Battersea application” (News March 26) quotes Cabe director of design Diane Haigh saying: “we have reviewed [the proposals] six times… this has resulted in a strong scheme which Cabe is confident will be a success”!
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Out of sight
Charles Bain Smith makes a very good point (Letters February 19). Would we accept anything but “invisible mending” for a torn tweed jacket or an oil painting or for personal cosmetic surgery?
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OpinionNothing to hide
BD’s “come clean” campaign felt like good investigative journalism until last week. Now it’s getting a bit cheap, and a tad personal
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OpinionHaile laughable
Your report that titanium leaves costing £3 million are to hide the poverty of London’s East End from the eyes of Olympic visitors (News February 19) reminds me of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie
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Function not fun
Piers Gough argues against pleasing the public (Debate February 19), saying “forwarding the art of architecture is the point of having architects”
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Top ambassadors
Your article on embassy overruns (News February 19) highlights the problems of the Foreign Office’s selection system
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Critical acclaim
I would disagree with some of the points made by Ellis Woodman in his Works article on February 19 about the Museum Folkwang