All Letters to the editor articles – Page 67
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Make it clear
I was disturbed to read about another supposed eco-house (News October 3) which seems to disregard environmental considerations with a totally clear four-storey glazed facade.
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Standard bearer
I qualified in 1956 and ever since I can remember, architects have been in despair over the standards of design of our housing stock.
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Back to honesty
Now we all know that we’ve been living a dream as opposed to living the dream since the turn of the century, maybe it’s an opportune time for architecture to exorcise its own ghosts of the recent past?
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Victorian values
Your survey of the legacy of past periods of housing (Front page October 3) provides some important lessons.
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OpinionExpensive & dull
If a brief were given to design the most boring and expensive public square, the recent proposal for Parliament Square would surely have been the result.
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Critical eye
It was a pleasure to read that William Curtis (Letters September 26) regards Oscar Niemeyer as “a major figure of Latin American and world architecture”.
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Cracked record
I have been an architect for about 20 years (feels like more) and the debate about Arb, its purpose and its value for money remains unchanged.
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Correction
Last week’s Carbuncle Cup story wrongly named Tektus Architects as the designer of Walton Street car park.
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Class struggle
Yasmin Shariff should ask herself why the ratio of women in law and medicine is at 50% (Debate October 3).
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OpinionOur carbuncles are too common
Amanda Baillieu observes that the architecture most people still get in their towns is, to paraphrase her inelegantly, crap (Leader October 3).
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No style
With reference to your web video “Adam hails start of a classical revolution — traditional architecture prospers as New Palladians exhibition launches”, and several other recent articles in the architectural and national press, I would like to register my objection to the way the modern classical stylists have started appropriating ...
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Sensible savings
Jack Pringle and Amanda Baillieu are critical of Arb for having substantial reserves in the bank.
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Playing politics
I was horrified to read in BD last week of Arb’s plans to examine the replacement of elected architect members with those appointed by the government.
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On the job
Thanks for the half-term report (News Analysis September 19) and the headteacher’s note in the leader. I quite agree that it is among UK architects that perception of the RIBA is hard to shift.
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Waste free
It is right to raise the retention fee increase as a matter of concern but wrong to suggest that Arb is on a spending spree.
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Tie breaker
Both correspondents missed the point in their answers to the question of architecture and the old boys’ club (Debate September 26).
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OpinionArb inflation
The £8 rise in the Arb retention fee actually equates exactly to an inflation-indexed rise for each of the past three years, up from £76.50 in 2006 to £86 for 2009.
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Arb’s extra £8: worth it or not?
Can someone please tell me why it is worth my while remaining a member of Arb? With a 10% fee hike on the cards (News September 26), it reminds me of all the downsides to being a registered architect in this country.
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Stop philistines
I am disappointed that “leading architects” such as George Ferguson have minced words about people like John Callcutt and the housebuilding industry.
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Peril in Venice
Having just returned from the Venice biennale, I find it very difficult to summarise to colleagues any coherent thoughts or themes that became apparent during my walk around the Arsenale.