All Letters to the editor articles – Page 60
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Plunder blunder
Pamela Buxton’s assertion that Corb “worked with Eileen Gray” on the design of E1027 at Roquebrune-Cap Martin (Culture March 13) is a commonly held fallacy.
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OpinionHorse sense
Further to Jonathan’s Glancey’s article (February 20) regarding the expense of Mark Wallinger’s White Horse at Ebbsfleet, there is a simple solution.
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Raise your game
In response to Andrew Black (Letters February 27) and his apparent concern for the work being done by architectural consultants/ designers, are we to believe that only part III RIBA architects are qualified to design buildings?
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Time to educate
Over the past 15 years, I have delivered many seminars to the public, which often does not understand that being an “architectural designer” is not the same thing.
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Bridge of sighs
I read with extreme sadness about the setback for Thomas Heatherwick’s brilliant bridge design for King’s Cross (News March 6). What is £7.5 million to pay for excellence in the present climate, when a banker is rewarded for his mistakes with £20 million in public money to play golf in ...
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OpinionStop PFI cash going to banks
Given that Labour’s craven worship of bankers has dropped us so completely in the poo, it is extraordinary that we continue with the PPP/PFI “supertanker” that puts the provision of our public buildings in bankers’ hands (News March 6)
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All in the name
I do not support protection of function. Even in Europe, this does not apply to small projects
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Access denied?
I wonder if the Quarterhouse arts venue (Works February 27) has had an access audit undertaken?
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Self-defence
Arb and the RIBA should lobby for legislation that would require an architect to validate and endorse every planning application before it is submitted to the local authority. This would be in line with other EU countries.
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Protection, please
Small and medium-sized local practices are inevitably in competition with unqualified and often uninsured “architectural consultants” because of the size and nature of much of their work.
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What’s in a name
Amanda Baillieu is absolutely right, the title “architect” can never be protected, nor should it be.
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OpinionStandards, not title, matter
The debate over protection of title (Debate February 27) re-ignites every time the industry goes into recession and we architects start to feel the pinch of competition from each other and those we like to call “unqualified”.
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Hidden powers
Three architectural practices are in both the “good” and “not yet good enough” columns of Cabe’s school league table.
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OpinionHair today...
I was startled to see my photograph in your Archive last week, sitting with Robin Spence and Richard Holden, dated 1982.
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Royal dissent
Although, thank goodness, not a disaster of the magnitude of the Diana Memorial Fountain in Hyde Park, illustrations of the opening ceremony of the Queen Mother memorial leave me disappointed.
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BSF is working
Your report “Cabe says half school designs aren’t good enough” (February 20) claimed MPs are concerned that plans for a new minimum design standard to ensure only the best designs get off the drawing board and into construction will slow delivery of this unprecedented programme.
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Qualified success
Protection of the title of architect is ineffective without protection of the role. Individuals cannot use the title without being registered with Arb, but can carry out any services they like without qualifications. It is futile to protect the title without protecting the role.
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Follow the money
At last someone has dared to question protected title (Leader February 20). It is not that title cannot be protected. It is just that, as you say, it is a waste of time and money
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Charter fight
BD’s leader showing that Arb is unable to protect the public from pseudo-architects in the internet age was going along fine until suddenly it said: “Protect function by all means”