All Letters to the editor articles – Page 96
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An apology please
On the subject of apologies (News January 12), when is Simon Jenkins going to apologise for his commanding role in initiating and implementing the Millennium Dome scandal?
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Sink or swim
As an architect and a resident of Hove I am strongly in favour of the King Alfred development and find “spoiler” campaigns such as the one mentioned in last week’s BD not only very annoying, but believe that this diversion has the potential to waste a huge amount time and ...
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Salutary tale
The big stick: Once upon a time there was a hardworking Cinderella organisation that had a big stick which helped specify, control and lead the building industry in producing good works. It was the local authority.
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OpinionPulling power
I was most interested to read in your “Top 50 most powerful” list, that the most influential woman in architecture, Yvette Cooper, is married to someone who might possibly at some future point become chancellor.
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OpinionStar Rem’s whine misses the point
Knowing of Rem Koolhaas’ provocatively radical pronouncements, I assumed your headline (News January 5) referred to some appeal for a boycott by super-starchitects of rapacious multi-national clients and their demands for gas-guzzling symbols of power across the globe. Or perhaps of architects’ willing co-operation with nasty regimes in places ...
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Making a stand
Your impressive list of the top 50 most powerful figures in British architecture (BD January 5) was selected by your expert panel on the basis of quite a broad criteria of social, political and economic responsibilities, among other duties.
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Competitions stifle the vital relationship
It’s hard to tell who suffers most from architectural competitions — the clients or the architects.
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Comforting point
BD purely in electronic format (Letters January 5)? I spend far too much time in front of a computer screen as it is.
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All embracing
Tim Brittain-Catlin (Letters January 5) should be applauded for bringing to our attention that due to the now almost total dominance of Jewish, Irish, Asian, African, and architects of northern or working class origin in the upper echelons of the profession, the “new minority” can no longer bang about how ...
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On the waterfront
Your report (News December 15) implies that responsibility for the budget increase on the arena and conference centre scheme at Kings Waterfront, Liverpool, belongs to Wilkinson Eyre Architects. This is not the case.
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OpinionPremature point
Your round-up of the year (December 15) although calling it a bad year for Frank Gehry, claims he got planning permission for his King Alfred development in November. Not true.
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Unmask the megalomaniacs
Your article “Barker planning advice offers work windfall” (News December 8) perpetuates two myths.
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OpinionMake a resolution to listen, learn and win
The best New Year’s resolution architects can make for 2007 is to learn to communicate. This may not be the first time — and it surely won’t be the last — where a case is made for more and better communication at all levels.
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Minority issue
Why the gratuitous reference to the fact that Sunand Prasad was elected “the first RIBA president from an ethnic minority” (2006 Review December 15)? And anyway, surely Eric Lyons, president 1975-7, was also from from “an ethnic minority”?
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Shaky ground
Your front page headline “The cost of going global” is a lame attempt by your publication to take the green moral high ground, which I would suggest is too poorly defined to allow you to take such a sanctimonious position on this particular topic.
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OpinionFlying the flag
Thank you for your article “The cost of going global” (News December 15). I am delighted that BD is publicly championing sustainable architectural practice; a concern that Aedas Architects shares.
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All for debate
In response to Steve Wolstenholme (Letters December 15), following the case of Peter White (who was in fact registered by Arb’s predecessor Arcuk) and his clients Jean and Christopher Shaw, I have indeed said that the architecture profession may wish to debate ways of improving consumer redress in 2007.
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Grasp the nettle
BD comes to my office each week and is well enjoyed by my American colleagues.
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Responsibility gap
Surely the saddest aspect of BD’s story of “rogue architect” Peter White and his let-down clients Jean and Christopher Shaw (News analysis November 24), was the absolute failure of Arb and the RIAS to properly police a registered architect who was also a convicted fraudster.
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OpinionGames need design, delivery and legacy
Commentators have written recently that it has been “a good couple of weeks” for design and the Olympics. Amid some of the negative headlines on this same issue this is good to hear, but I do fear that the debate over the design approach for Olympic venues is in danger ...