All Letters to the editor articles – Page 70
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Opinion
Power of prayer
The apparent difficulty in finding a viable use for Battersea Power Station might be solved by resurrecting my 1990 scheme for a Metropolitan Mosque.
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Planning to fail
In response to Phil Kirby’s defence of planning services (Debate August 1), most applications are not dealt with by elected representatives but farmed out to the “private sector” in the form of paid planning officers making decisions under delegated powers.
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Waking the dead
Sue Roaf makes reference to the Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists and comments made at the Oxford Conference (Letters August 1).
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Planning blight
As chair of the Association of Consultant Architects’ planning group, ACA president Brian Waters has asked me to clarify his Debate piece (August 1).
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OpinionLukewarm Bath
The Bath eco-home by ZedFactory (First Look August 1) comes with all the low-energy bells and whistles one should be seen with, but can a 700sq m family home really be called sustainable?
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Bad education
As Noel Farrer says, landscape quality is not embedded in the employer’s requirements before the contract is let (News August 1).
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So unfair it’s all based on flair
I graduated about seven years ago, and from day one we had been taught the basics of important areas of construction and theoretical design.
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Overexposed
Intriguing that Gillespie, Kidd & Coia was included as a culprit in Tony Leitch’s rather excitable critique of the “raw concrete aesthetic” of sixties buildings (Letters July 25).
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Town and gown
A disappointing statement from the RIBA president at the Oxford Conference echoed an age-old argument between practice and education.
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Positive focus
I was a little surprised at your selective reporting on English Heritage’s formal response to RMJM’s planning application for the new headquarters for City of York Council (News July 18).
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Think differently
It is disappointing that your headline does not reflect the real substance of Sunand Prasad’s address.
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Square dance
I disagree with the comments from the members of the House of Lords about Parliament Square (News July 18).
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OpinionA new climate for schools?
Sunand Prasad is right (News July 25). The lack of any real examination, as he states, of “normal life” from our schools of architecture is I agree “intellectual dereliction”.
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Battersea failure
Leaving aside the complete inappropriateness of the Viñoly proposals for Battersea Power Station (News July 18), the predominate failure, as with all predecessors, is that none have actually addressed a solution for the use of the power station itself.
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Unkind words
Further to your leader (July 18) on RMJM’s £1 million support package to encourage more youngsters from black and ethnic minorities into architecture, the statistic that only 2% of practising architects in Britain are non-white is a shocking indictment of our industry and possibly makes it the last bastion of ...
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Cunning plan
In the light of the RIBA report on planning, is it time to run a regular feature on planning nightmares — nominate your worst local planning authority and so on.
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Concrete division
Anne Power (Opinion July 4) gives a clear, intelligent summary of the issues surrounding post-war public housing — thought-provoking and so relevant!
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OpinionSkills for BSF schools are here
“Architects blamed for unsustainable schools” shouts your headline (News July 18)