All Letters to the editor articles – Page 73
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Left speechless
I have spent much time trying to persuade Scottish architects that the RIBA has the ear of government. Your leader (May 30) suggests this is no longer the case.
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Parametric guilt
With reference to Peter Eisenman and Neil Spiller in Have computers damaged architects’ design quality? (Debate May 16) and the subsequent letters, it seems to me that the detractors of computer design are rather missing the point.
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Clarifications
In last week’s interview with Eric Parry, we mistakenly referred to the refusal of the second planning application. It was, as made clear elsewhere on the page, the first application that was refused.
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Cabe’s shame
Cabe’s response to the proposed Tesco scheme for the historic — and delightful — market town of Hadleigh is deeply depressing and casts doubt on the quango’s credibility.
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OpinionOxford: address education costs
The Oxford Conference meets again on July 22-23 (News analysis June 6). Its title is 50 Years On — Resetting the Agenda for Architectural Education, but it completely overlooks the major issue facing education today: that of affordability.
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Waste watcher
So Chiltern Management wants to develop the unloved Beckton Alp for a luxury hotel to open in time for the Olympics (News May 30)?
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Get out of town
Amanda Baillieu misses the point (Leader May 30). Ruth Reed’s comments on the regions reflect her time as RIBA vice president, membership, trudging around the UK listening to members.
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Correction
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands designed Harvey Nichols’ restaurants and food halls in Manchester and Edinburgh, not at its Leeds and Edinburgh branches as stated in “Dramatic overheads” (BD Magazine Retail May 2008).
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Blind spot
I was going to launch a staunch defence of Neil Spiller (Letters May 30) and the work of the Avatar group.
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Pathetic award
The South Bank Centre stuck a plinth of glass-fronted shops onto a very special grade I modernist London landmark, the Royal Festival Hall, and got a special RIBA public space award (News May 30).
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OpinionLondon agenda still dominates
Recent articles and viewpoints in BD on the centralisation of the RIBA raise a very important issue which has been disappointingly covered so far.
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OpinionStaying power
Perhaps the question raised in your news story should be not so much: “Why are the Australians going home and leaving us in the lurch?” but rather: “Why are we reliant on Australians in the first place, and what can we do to encourage them to stay?”
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Out of this world
I knew architectural education was bad but I didn’t really appreciate how far down the plughole it had gone until I read the barely intelligible cyberbabble nonsense by Neil Spiller (IT May 16).
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Local heroes
Of course Amanda Baillieu in her leader (May 23) is right to take apart the pitiful mess the planning system is in. However, she oversteps the mark when she pillories all local politicians.
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Kindest cuts
In his column on architects’ autobiographies (May 16), Jonathan Glancey suggests that George Gilbert Scott Jr “edited out what must have been all the really good bits” from Sir Gilbert’s Personal and Professional Recollections.
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Yo, cobber
Strewth, mates, the blinkin’ Poms have only gone and sprung Canberra’s plans to make their country even more crook!