All Letters to the editor articles – Page 90
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OpinionSpaced out
Another housing report, the Williams Report (BD May 18), comes from more very worthy practitioners hoping that good design will triumph in the mass housing market to put the sea of mediocrity firmly into the past.
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Valuable legacy
Your front page last week was the clearest reminder of the importance of Colin St John Wilson’s written and built legacy of a caring and reasoned architecture in a profession increasingly complicit in its own emasculation as a serious and humanising cultural force.
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OpinionThe route to quality housing
I read with interest your articles on the Williams Report (May 18). It is a shame that the views of council officers were not obtained, particularly design officers, because they are very much part of the process. It is a challenge to raise the bar of the housing industry and ...
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Peak practice
How quickly people forget! When I got my first job 35 years ago with Leonard Manasseh, a superb aerial perspective of his proposal for Snowdon’s summit (News May 4) sat in his foyer in Rathbone Street.
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It’s a mad world
Your headline (News May 4) regarding housing competitions could equally apply to the whole competition process. This is, generally, fairness gone bonkers.
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Hard times
It seems that Dickensian employment practices are alive and well in architects’ offices (Practice May 4).
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Get a grip, RIBA
You hit the nail fairly and squarely on the head (Leader May 11) in asserting that the RIBA has more pressing matters to beat itself up about than registering the political affiliations of council and board members.
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TechnicalSustainable Games are the new Klondike
The rush for a green Olympics is important, but requires teamwork
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OpinionHemp offers even more
The article on hemp insulation by Roderick Bunn (Solutions May 11) quoted a U-value of 0.9W/m2K from Buro Happold for 100mm.
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OpinionCoal not doled
The May issue of BD Magazine is packed with interest and really well presented, but Retrospect is wildly adrift concerning the “the health of toiling miners” in 1948.
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Agora exists
Gareth Gwynne suggests an “agora” to showcase and debate the major architectural/built environment projects proposed for London (Letters April 27). Has he been to New London Architecture in the Building Centre?
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OpinionViews: The Williams Report is only the beginning
Design for Homes chief executive David Birkbeck says that government of whatever hue has no choice but to start a massive housebuilding programme - both at Thames Gateway and across the country. It could even be a vote winner
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OpinionUse your sense
Having spent 31 years visiting Aalto’s buildings in Finland and the US, I was delighted to attend the Alvar Aalto exhibition and study day last week at the Barbican. Sadly, both were disappointing.
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Minority vote
If the rewards and working conditions of the architectural profession were to improve, perhaps more women and those from ethnic minorities would join.
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Smoke and ire
As our office has long had an absolute no-smoking policy, I had thought that the smoking ban being brought into law in England on July 1 would not affect us.
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Square despair
I would like to add to the debate on public spaces (Letters May 4). I walk through Gillett Square in Dalston nearly every day.
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OpinionThoughts are key to contests
It is entirely unnecessary for architects to be asked to produce extensive design as part of a competition process.
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FeaturesIn the name of sustainability, can architects learn to love the traditional?
People save and reuse old buildings for a host of reasons — romantic, aesthetic, historical.
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Skys the limit
Looking at page 5 (April 20), I wonder again why even the best architects think skyscraper design is either a matter of getting a wedge of cheese and cutting lumps off it, or making a vaguely rude shape out of plasticine.