All Letters to the editor articles – Page 94
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Opinion
Horror of towers
You devoted much of your leader last week to support the proposed tower for 20 Fenchurch Street.
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OpinionViñoly tower is in fine tradition
On March 6, Cabe and English Heritage will appear on opposite sides at the public inquiry into Rafael Viñoly’s tower at 20 Fenchurch Street. The issue here is about how great cities change to meet new challenges. It is about the extent to which they can break with tradition when ...
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Energetic riposte
A different slant on energy use. I have received a copy of a trade magazine printed in Singapore and AIRMAILED to the UK.
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No to second city
I agree with Glenn Howells that Birmingham is a wonderful place (Debate February 23) but it is badly served by harping on about it being the “second city”. And Manchester will do itself no favours by joining the debate. What seems light-hearted banter is easily seen as a synonym for ...
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A snapshot
I am of the few survivors of your photograph (Practice February 16) although just off frame — it must be at least 50 years old.
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It’s a gamble
How dare the Department of Culture Media & Sport claim it is capable of writing the rules for the Supercasino competition (News February 9) when it failed to abide by its own rules over the small but high-profile Diana Fountain Memorial competition.
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Fraser is right
Malcolm Fraser is absolutely right (News February 9). PFI is producing poor buildings for Scotland, and Architecture & Design Scotland is failing to do its job if it will not point this out and why it is happening. Good architecture cannot result when architects are cut off from the user ...
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No pay, no cover
Cabe’s recent notice advertising that it is looking for architects to join its design panel but expecting them to work for free has attracted much criticism.
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Wrath of a two-headed beast
How odd to be admonished in BD for resigning from Architecture & Design Scotland by the Murray part of Gordon Murray & Alan Dunlop Architects (Letters February 16), while in your rival the Dunlop bit admonishes me for not having left sooner.
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Lost opportunity
I am bemused that a deputy-chairman of any nascent NGO should resign because he doesn’t like the shape of his own organisation.
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OpinionSave our greens
Landscape Architecture South East (LASE) welcomes the Greater London Authority inquiry into the loss of street trees in London (News February 2) and anticipates real outcomes from it.
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Good practice
Archaos would like to thank the 450 practices and architects who have joined our Good Practice Campaign.
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TechnicalAn ecological footprint to fit our planet
Real ‘sustainability’ goes far beyond where we source our energy
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Competitions raise standards
From Berlin, I have followed the debate on competitions in BD with interest. Having established our office on the success of a single competition win in Germany in 1991, and with 90% of our subsequent commissions coming from competitions, I am mystified why they are treated with such suspicion in ...
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Design and build
Richard Simmons’ suggestion that the link between design and housing needs to be prioritised in the profession’s affairs is right.
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Pulling together
I would like to emphasise how worldwide the support is for the Architects Benevolent Society’s Big Auction on June 7 (News February 2).
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Responsible idea
We have just received a letter from Hackney planning authority pointing out that a scheme we designed has not been built or occupied in accordance with the planning approval. The letter states that unless we comply with the planning permission we will receive an enforcement notice.
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OpinionGoolish interest
Being an amateur thespian, I always wanted to be involved in theatre design during that part of my career when I was actually designing. How I longed to correct the provision for dressing room space, which was so often relegated to a couple of dingy, airless cubby holes or the ...
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Fashion victims
OK, I’ve had enough! So most 1960s and 1970s public housing was a disaster, architects are largely to blame, and we must beat our breasts and plead guilty to the destruction of the city. Let us look at the facts.