All Letters to the editor articles – Page 91
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OpinionRIBA: keep out of social politics
On the question of the RIBA deciding to embroil itself in social engineering (“Campaign to help minorities” News April 27), I believe it should leave well alone.
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No foundation
Concrete Boots (April 6) suggested that Cabe’s funding for the Architecture Foundation has been cut as a result of alleged criticisms of our exhibition programme.
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Fair and square
The building of Gillett Square is a locally-based project some 15 years in the making, and good for another 100.
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Making changes
Architects for Change, the RIBA’s equality and diversity forum, has achieved a huge amount since its foundation in 2000, including the publication of an employment guide for architects, instigating returners’ courses for architects after career breaks (women and men), and curating the ongoing global DiverseCity exhibition celebrating the work of ...
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Beat class guilt
In a country where streets are used as an open rubbish bin, anything — be it the mayor’s 100 public spaces or the people’s 1,000 markets — is surely a step forward.
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OpinionSpace for all
Far from being gentrification of an existing area, Gillett Square was a grotty car park and through-road.
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Misread accolade
No author should complain about a review as generous as Tom Muirhead’s of my book Britain (April 27), and I am grateful for it.
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Victoria values
Surely Land Securities’ willingness to lop 4m of one of KPF’s proposed twin towers and 24m of the other (News April 20) is little more than a classic developer’s ploy of throwing an excessive scheme into the ring and then make a big “concession” by scaling it back to something ...
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OpinionGreat imposter
I was deeply offended by your back page reference last week to God “the Great Architect”.
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OpinionUse, not design, counts in spaces
The assertion (News April 20) that the public wants space not style is just nonsense. I have no doubt that a commissioned survey could back up his claim, but then I have no doubt such a survey could back up a claim that most people believe the earth is flat ...
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OpinionCold comfort
I thought we architects were supposed to be leading the industry forward in sustainable design. Yet Dow Jones’ refurbished house at Walberswick does not include a draught lobby.
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The living city
Thank you for your thoughtful leader on public life and public space — often two very different and conflicting issues. There is much truth in the Demos/Rowntree report but there is also a real danger that we polarise this issue.
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Beware ‘scoops’
A lot of us on this side of the architectural press have been biting our tongues at the deluge of nascent concepts by architectural “names” that increasingly adorn your pages. Last week’s front page was no exception.
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Be fair to the BBC
Some of the criticism of the BBC, Bovis Lend Lease, and the implied criticism of Sheppard Robson (Letters April 13), is not justified.
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Let the arch lie
Network Rail does deserve a Euston Arch (Letters April 20) to mark its burial spot. The destruction of the Euston Arch was utterly deplorable and an act of mindless philistinism by British Railways.
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Be specific, Arb
In the article about Arb’s “prescribed examination” (News April 13), you quote the registrar as indicating that Arb would not be in a position to outsource any of its other education roles because of the wording of the act, while “only on the prescribed exam is the wording more flexible”.
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Public interest
“Most people going to architectural events are architects” says Fred Manson of Open House (News April 13).
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Modern horrors
Can you explain why so many “modern” buildings look like household appliances or even the packaging they come in?
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Solid gold show
It was wonderful to see BD offering a platform for a review of Andy Goldsworthy’s magnificent show at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park (Culture April 13).
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Charter surprise
I confess to having been, like Tom Jestico (Debate April 13), publicly very critical of the RIBA chartered practice scheme.