All Letters to the editor articles – Page 71
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Brutal truth
Lurking beneath Celia Clarke’s plea to reuse buildings (Letters July 18) was yet another cry for more respect for sixties buildings by exponents such as Gillespie Kidd & Coia, Owen Luder, Chalk Herron and others whose raw concrete aesthetic set up a public distaste for we architects.
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Broken greens
While it is encouraging to see the industry delivering more sustainable buildings, confusion exists over how green building credentials are rated.
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Us and them
Abe Hayeem (Letters July 11) would have liked the UIA to “censure” the Israel Institute of Architects at Turin, drawing odious comparisons with Mugabe.
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PM’s questions
News that Boris Johnson is to reinstate Parker Morris housing space standards in London (News July 4) is welcome.
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OpinionUnfit objection
In 2004 English Heritage failed to list to list the much missed Tricorn Centre in Portsmouth, designed in 1962 by the Owen Luder Partnership, using the same “not fit for purpose” argument as it employed on Robin Hood Gardens (News July 4).
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OpinionBlame it on the Arts Council
Ellis Woodman’s review of The Public in West Bromwich (Works July 4) fails to appreciate the main aspiration of the project: digital art and art in general as a catalyst for economic, urban and cultural regeneration.
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In the swing
Your report (News July 4) on the RIBA Trust/Intelligence2 Debate event which proposed “modern architecture is still all glass stumps are carbuncles” did not record the real point in the voting.
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Tell your story
Since St Christopher’s Hospice opened in Sydenham in 1967, more than 250 others have been established. Some claim the modern hospice is a new building type.
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Out of touch
RIBA president Sunand Prasad and the architectural elite, including BD, have again shown themselves to be out of touch with a significant proportion of the RIBA and Arb membership, as well as an overwhelming majority of the British public, in their continuing campaign to have Robin Hood Gardens listed (News ...
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Slow motion
The failure of International Union of Architects’ (UIA) representatives to propose a motion to censure Israel for breaches of its professional and ethical charter, and the country’s well documented flouting of international law is like Africa’s reluctance to criticise Mugabe.
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OpinionParker Morris needs updating
Three cheers for “Boris pledges to reinstate Parker Morris standards” (News June 27).
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Poor defence
BD’s increasingly frantic campaign to halt the demolition of Robin Hood Gardens does a disservice to the reputation of architects in the eyes of the public, which sees it as the archetypal 1960s ugly concrete monstrosity.
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Social contract
In a 1974 article in Architectural Design entitled The violent consumer, Alison Smithson queried the wisdom of basing socialist ideals on the values of the English middle class. Do we have a choice?
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Value added
I see this year’s crop of AA students have designed “Swoosh” to grace Bedford Square.
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Shorty shrift
I just don’t get you lot. You bang on about carbon-neutral this, and carbon footprint that, but when it comes to a sexy, decadent, wilful piece of unusable space, you can’t resist.
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Penalty point
As a student, I used to be admonished that a building’s purpose should be capable of interpretation from its appearance.
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On the level
Your BRE story last week, illustrated with an image of Sheppard Robson’s Lighthouse, mentions that “it emerged that two of the prototype houses at the BRE’s Watford base, hailed as the future for zero-carbon development, had failed to meet the required construction standards”.
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Mistaken identity
BD is publishing letters from readers who are unhappy at the RIBA reportedly “picking fights” with Arb and the ACA. They do not like to see their institute appear quarrelsome or aggressive.
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Happy partner
BD’s story on the BRE innovation park (News June 27) could be incorrectly read to imply that English Partnerships is a critic of BRE.