All Letters to the editor articles – Page 55
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OpinionDon’t Bury it yet
Having seen Studio MGM’s timber-framed and clad apartments rise from a particularly drab corner of the Bury St Edmunds ring road over the past couple of years, I was aghast at John Henry Kneller Eborn’s prejudiced and ill-informed letter (June 19)
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Barrier grief
While I think that shared spaces offer an improvement on the cluttered streets we tolerate, the thought that they exclude blind and partially sighted people makes me uneasy
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Bad education
Tim Ward’s letter (June 19) raised only one aspect of the architectural students’ woes. The other is that they leave their schools with a woefully inadequate education
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Help us fight fees
In response to the mass email issued by Sunand Prasad (News page 6), if the RIBA wishes to help smaller firms of architects and sole practitioners deal with the perpetual expectancy to carry out work on spec and partake in fee bidding, it should do something a bit more robust ...
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Unfair advantage
Richard Rogers’ call for a national inquiry into the prince’s constitutional role should be welcomed
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Bonny prince
I work with communities where the planners, architects and corporations they represent are riding roughshod over livelihoods and treasured environments
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OpinionRally to Rogers
It’s with no surprise that we read the people’s architect Prince Charles is single-handedly able to alter the course of one of the most important projects in London this decade
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OpinionWe can’t all run back to daddy
Recently your magazine, to my despair, has highlighted the snobbery of the architectural world (News June 12)
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Stuck on style
The discussion about a suitable architectural form for the expansion of Oxford University (Leader June 5) steps once again into the modernism versus traditionalism debate, which springs up in all historic and conservation environments
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Waking the dead
Owen Hatherley (Opinion June 22) notes that sobriety and abstraction are fashionable virtues for memorials but architects often seem to have problems distinguishing between the zeitgeist and a rather more holistic and historical attitude towards sculpture and memorials
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Trust is robust
I would like to make it clear that your leader on the unfortunate collapse of the Civic Trust (May 29) was referring to the “Southern English” Civic Trust
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Cul-de-sac cure
In her thought-stimulating article, Carolyn Steel (Opinion June 5) does not mention the basic general objection to massive development in the Thames Gateway
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OpinionBeware theme park pastiche
Oxford University has a great opportunity to make a significant addition to contemporary architectural culture (News June 5)
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OpinionBaffled by Bury
Emily Greeves’ review of Studio MGM’s housing scheme in Bury St Edmunds (Works May 29) says the “module of the frame describes the measure of the rooms inside” but it clearly does not if the floor plan is correct
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Bad rap for Wrap
I was surprised to read your article about Wrap (News June 5) which said that no architects had yet signed up to its call to reduce waste levels at design stage
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Correction: 12.06.2009
Last week’s news story “RIBA plans summit with shadow cabinet” incorrectly said that the RIBA’s European Election manifesto called for a reduction of the minimum duration of architectural studies from five years to four.
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Oversee this
The JCT standard building contract for a home owner/occupier 2005 proudly announces, for signature, that it is for ithe owner/occupier who has appointed a consultant to oversee the works