All Letters to the editor articles – Page 62
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Strike a light
I wholeheartedly support Jonathan Glancey’s excellent piece on the tungsten light (January 16).
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Regulate title and function
Jonathan Braddick (Letters January 23) puts a strong case for the architect function to be bound into UK legislation.
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Water force
The response to your article (Letters January 23) on the fountains at Centre Point is encouraging. It would be wonderful if they could be incorporated into the new forecourt design, or at least a good home found for them.
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Blind on bland
Steve Cooper says PFI projects might be rubbish or bland (Debate January 30), but that they are finished on time and within budget! Something of an own goal, I think.
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Don’t bank on it
At a time when we are all suffering from the effects of too little regulation, the public will wonder where the Arb Reform Group (Letters January 30) is coming from in wishing to follow the banking profession.
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Talking rubbish
How encouraging it was for us at the bottom of the architectural food chain to hear Richard Harrington, chairman of Nightingale Associates, describe ward refurbishments as “rubbish like that” (News January 16)
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Kudos is reward
Your headline “Stirling to drop prize money” (January 23) is misleading. The question of whether and how to fund a prize is being discussed — no decision has been made.
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Title fight
It’s bad enough that there are so few jobs advertised for architects in the national, or any, press.
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Reform’s cool
Elections for the Arb board and executive are here again. In 2006, five of the 22 candidates seeking election to Arb’s seven architect places collected 70% of the profession’s votes
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OpinionWe won’t waste Stirling cash
We’re not blowing our Stirling cash on parties (News January 23)! We’re using the money to publish a detailed account of the evolution of the Accordia project and the experience of living there.
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Corrections: 30.01.09
Make me a Home finalist Spine Architects is located in Hamburg, Germany, not Myanmar and New York, as reported last week.
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Legal function
Architects are seen by many to be an expensive luxury, as well as uncommercially and untechnically minded.
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Improve the flow
Removing the Centre Point fountains — which have always appeared a bit out of scale and out of place, forcing pedestrians to negotiate their way around them on a narrow strip of pavement — is a good idea (News January 16)
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At first hand
Last July six London-based women architects spent 10 days on an exchange visit with women architects, engineers and planners in East Jerusalem and the West Bank
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OpinionLet’s rethink US embassy plans
Even with the enormity of the economic struggles that lie before him, I hope President Obama and his team can find time to address one small yet important issue: how does America project its ideals in the capital cities of the world?
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Correction
An editing error to Gordon Murray’s letter last week suggested that James Stirling’s Andrew Melville Hall was geographically near a trio of redbrick buildings.
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Cold war relic
I was intrigued by the line in your review of the Tony Fretton British Embassy in Poland (Solutions January 16) suggesting the original ambassador’s residence, planned for demolition, had been saved
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OpinionCentre points
I was involved in the design of the new entrance hall and plaza for Centre Point (News January 16) while working with Gaunt Francis back in 2000-02.