All Letters to the editor articles – Page 84
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Opinion
Social security
What is most horrific about this new architectural trend of artificial islands is the line of thinking it advocates.
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OpinionRubbish is good for Tutti Frutti
Matching the spirit of the Tutti Frutti competition (September 28), Chance de Silva’s submission was both playful and serious in that it intends to build the house from reused materials sourced locally.
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Flushed out
In its unwavering support for Plastik Architects’ first public building (Works September 28), Gravesham Borough Council pursued an ambitious design and played a significant part in promoting strong architectural ideas, realised within tight fiscal constraints.
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Off colour
Sunand Prasad (“Architecture schools too white in focus” News September 21) is correct, and your readers need look no further than your front cover rendering of Grimshaw’s Leningrad airport.
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Too buttoned up
I was interested to read your editorial comment on Sunand Prasad’s view that “ethnic minority students feel shut out”.
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TechnicalThe rules that stop us going for the burn
The London Plan’s drive for on-site renewables is laudable, but limiting
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Justice served
As the Bovis Lend Lease design manager for Manchester Civil Justice Centre from October 2002 to August 2004, I find it very disappointing that for such a spectacular building you do not give adequate credit to the primary structure and make no mention at all of the primary facade works.
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Hitting the roof
It was intriguing to compare the measured elegance of the roof at St Pancras (Solutions, September 7) with, on the following pages, the contrived “architecture” of the Riverside Museum in Glasgow.
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Opinion
HIPs out of joint
Richard Brindley (Practice September 21) gives an accurate account of how the HIPs are now fractured!
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Opinion
Trees are green
I am concerned by the letter from Jun Huang (September 7) on timber as a construction material being less than “green”.
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OpinionOriginality rests on strong design
Ellis Woodman was, in my view, completely accurate in suggesting that Manchester’s new Civil Justice Centre “has all the makings of an icon” (September 14).
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OpinionBlue-sky thinking
I am puzzled by the reported championing by the mayor of London of the troubled Shard skyscraper (News September 21).
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Opinion
Agenda bender
I am responding to your editorial (Tories seize the green agenda, September 14).
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OpinionRussian revolt
I was one of those who took part in the march against the Gazprom tower design (News September 14).
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Public outcry
Is your front page story “Public feels powerless over design” (News September 14) really so shocking?
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Title needs
Your correspondent (Practice September 7) asks if protection of title rather than function makes sense. The plain answer is no, despite Richard Brindley’s half-hearted attempt to defend the status quo.
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Hard lessons
If Dan Kantorowich (Letters September 7) is right and the schools of architecture no longer teach construction, our profession is far deeper in the proverbial than most of us would think. I always thought construction detailing was integral to the design process!
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Opinion
It’s cool
In your article on the reinstatement of St Pancras Station’s splendid glass roof (Solutions September 7), you quoted Alison Peterson Smith of Pascall & Watson as saying, “this amount of glazing far exceeds that allowed in new structures by modern regulations governing heat loss and energy efficiency”.
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OpinionBSF: smart PFI is a distraction
Your piece on the Building Schools for the Future programme following the opening of the Bristol Brunel Academy (News analysis September 7) raises important issues about PFI and procurement.
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Opinion
Spaced out
Will Hurst suggests the RIBA should focus its attention on housing and climate change as the key issues of the day (Leader August 31), but there is little point in doing so if it continues to ignore the fundamental cause of the housing crisis, namely mass immigration.