All Letters to the editor articles – Page 48
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OpinionPhoto call
Who’s that next to Herman Hertzberger (Archive, November 20)? Is it the ever-youthful John Worthington, or just a lookalike?
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OpinionRome wasn’t built in a day
Ellis Woodman’s article on Zaha Hadid’s Maxxi building in Rome (Works November 20) applies conventional critical analysis to unconventional contexts
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Ask an architect
While Stuart Lipton, John Sorrell, Paul Finch and Nicholas Serota are all fine people and by and large know something about good architecture, they do represent government’s reluctance in England to put architects in the top adviser jobs (News November 20)
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Solid evidence
Your editorial “Is global warming hot air?” (November 6) does a great disservice to our profession. To claim a “growing wealth of scientific evidence” that climate change is not predominantly man made, without citing this supposed evidence, either suggests that BD knows something the rest of us don’t, or BD ...
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Don’t talk rubbish
Jonathan Glancey’s article, “Home is where the bullying is” (November 13) is unnecessarily unkind to those who have the unpleasant task of dealing with our recycling and waste at “town dumps”
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Keep a cool head
Our profession has a key role in adapting for the consequences of the 10-century-long trend of global warming, but this does not mean we have to dumbly accept the assertions of the “greenhouse gas” proponents. Many of the same climate campaigners were frightening us with a new ice age, as ...
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OpinionClimate change beyond ‘belief’
I am amazed that many usually rational people — including architects — have turned into evangelical, fanatical bigots when it comes to the question of climate and energy
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United approach
The construction industry cannot afford to waste any more time debating which scientific data it prefers to believe. There is a “good enough” consensus among climate scientists that humans can affect climate
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Can’t win ’em all
It is sad to read of the suspension of the scheme to extend Asplund’s Stockholm City Library (News November 13), but predictable. The difficulty with competitions that rely on a winning design, which is then implemented, is the lack of opportunity for reflection and consultation
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Corrections - 20 November 2009
The image used with last week’s news story “Stockholm axes plan for library extension” was not the winning entry by Heike Hanada as stated, but Jonathan Woolf’s design, which came seventh.The photograph of Caruso St John’s Nottingham Contemporary on page 12 last week should have been credited to Hélène Binet.
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Talent show
In these gloomy times it is nice to see that the likes of Atkins and Capita are “poaching” talent from design-oriented firms
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Data error
As a professional meteorologist and hydrologist, may I congratulate you on approaching this thorny topic with the proper scientific rigour, which even whilst I was at school, I was taught should provide considered conclusions, which can only be supported by fact
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Climate debate has moved on
Responding to your leader last week,“Is global warming hot air?”, it is worth reflecting on how the climate change debate has developed
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Good chances
So the London Development Agency is “championing” good design by only employing “good” architects (News November 6)
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RIBA box ticking
I fail to understand why the RIBA makes it compulsory for practices who want to be chartered to have to have an environmental policy
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OpinionChipperfield's lucky escape
I can empathise with David Chipperfield’s disappointment for not being asked to develop his competition-winning Film Centre design for the BFI (News October 30). My 1995 design for it, for the south side of Tate Modern, was similarly superseded
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Wider tradition
If we follow Jonathan Glancey’s argument (October 30), we can’t win. If our survey on public taste in architecture compares similar things we’re superficial, but if we’d compared unlike things we’d be biased
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Movie puzzler
A lot of things puzzle me. One is sometimes why clients change architects. Chipperfield wins a competition. Eight years later the promoters get some extra money, decide that they have to hold a fresh competition and look for another architect when they had one of proven excellence. Why?
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Spurn this invite
Your readers may be aware of an invitation for expressions of interest for a sustainable housing scheme in Islington. The first stage submission asks “suppliers” to provide an AO board of conceptual design ideas for the site