All Letters to the editor articles – Page 74
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OpinionThis building has world value
I have written to Leicester University’s senior building surveyor Jim Whait to add my voice to those of my colleagues around the world who are deeply concerned about the threat to the Leicester Engineering Building designed by James Stirling and James Gowan.
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Reference points
Three points in Ellis Woodman’s review of Corpus Christi’s new Taylor Library (Works May 16) need clarification.
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OpinionCreativity is part of sustainability
Pooran Desai’s excellent contribution to your debate on sustainability (May 9) was concise and clear. Designing a building that requires minimum energy, water, and damage to the environment while giving maximum comfort and a more “natural” ambience is obviously creative. If journo-miserablist Austin Williams wants to attack the factors ...
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Contracts cost
Your coverage of the RIBA and ACA row over forms of contract (News May 9), makes some excellent points but fails to note the issue of cost.
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Light fantastic
I agree that rebuilding a school will not necessarily make any difference to its performance. However, having worked on school design for 17 years, I can say that in certain situations, a better design can have an effect.
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OpinionSchool design does matter
You probably can’t make a good school out of wonderful buildings and poor teachers (Opinion May 9). You probably can make a good school out of wonderful teachers and poor buildings. But the link between building design and educational performance is real, and teachers as well as architects make this ...
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Not for Cotton
Crikey, I seem to have really wound up Mark Cotton with what I thought were fairly innocuous responses to Irena Bauman’s book (Letters May 9).
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First choice
Following the RIBA/ACA failure to agree on forms of contract (News May 9), small and young practices would benefit from professional institutions giving them free and accessible education on standardised services agreements.
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Chinese check
I read your leader on the Chinatown revolution (May 2) with dismay. There seem to be conflicting messages these days about how a multiethnic country should move ahead.
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Glancey’s blow
Jonathan Glancey’s comment (April 25) that “no amount of special pleading will make supermarkets physically attractive” is so apt for us in St Albans.
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Press revelation
Some of the architects previously employed by RMJM to work on the Scottish Parliament project appear to be sensitive flowers if the recent correspondence from John Kinsley and Gordon McGregor (Letters passim) is anything to go by.
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Power struggle
I was surprised to read that a CHP plant is to be installed at Transport for London’s Palestra building in Blackfriars Road (News May 2).
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Crying shame
As ever, Alan Powers captures the moment perfectly — the Hayward was openly and almost universally reviled (Culture May 2).
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It's a bit rich
It has long been my belief that neither I nor any other director of this practice should hold any financial equity in the business.
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OpinionHappiness is not being patronised
I have just settled down following a busy week with a glass of white wine and this week’s copy of BD (News May 2).
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Backwards step
Gareth Hoskins’ pavilion for Scotland’s Venice Biennale (News May 2) doesn’t need to comply with any regulations but could have entered into the spirit of inclusive access.
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OpinionWayne's a winner
Judging by April’s BD Magazine on housing, Wayne Hemingway’s mission to revitalise the design quality of new UK housing goes from strength to strength.
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Tesco's threat
Tesco may not yet match Wal-Mart in the US for trampling on community life in the cause of “retail rationalisation” but Jonathan Glancey (April 25) rightly highlights its persistent determination to ruin Hadleigh in Suffolk.