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Do the sums
We must have great sympathy with Paul Dinsdale (Letters February 12) about the lack of work but when are fellow architects going to realise that in a career of 50 years there will be four or five recessions and there is nothing the RIBA can do about it
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Starting point
There has been a great deal of coverage recently on the schemes funded under the first round of Kickstart
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OpinionChipping in on the debate
How arrogant of me to be frustrated that the architecture correspondent of our most respected newspaper refused to comment on a project that took 11 years and was the subject of intense debate and criticism in every other European newspaper
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Icing on the cake
I was pleasantly surprised to be contacted for cake orders when my photograph appeared in BD last Friday (Letters February 12)
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FeaturesDot to dot results: February 12 2010
Last week’s winner was Alistair Fair of Cambridge University architecture department, who identified Peter Moro’s Nottingham Playhouse
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Swede and sour
I was left rather puzzled and bemused by Carolyn Steel’s article (Opinion February 5)
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OpinionPositively wrong
Your front page (February 5) asks: “Where have all the architects gone?” and reports that the RIBA “doesn’t know where the 2,500 architects who haven’t signed up for Jobseekers Allowance have gone”
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OpinionFame and misfortune
Clarity, I often think, is overrated. As Burke knew, a clear idea is another name for a little idea. But I’d nonetheless like to clarify a small item in last week’s Boots
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Power failure
If the London mayor is “confident about Viñoly Battersea plan” (News February 5) then he has not understood it, like so many who are taken in by the highly sophisticated illustrations, he believes the pretty pictures
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Quality at a cost
Carolyn Steel’s article on Swedish architectural quality (Opinion February 5) brought to mind my visit to Stockholm about 16 years ago, from which I have two vivid memories
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OpinionMaking the best of what there is
As those who don’t get past the headlines (News January 29) could be forgiven for believing that I’m about to recommend a town centre scrappage scheme, perhaps I could make clear that my view is virtually the opposite
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OpinionSitting pretty
Just in case anyone is struggling to make sense of my image (Zumtobel photo competition January 29), as I was, if page 21 is turned through 90 degrees...
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Post-war journey
Jonathan Glancey’s comment “it would be fascinating to know just how many architects have made their way up from two-up, two- down terraces, council estates, overspill towns and secondary modern schools” (January 22) caused me to reflect on my own experience and those of many of my friends and colleagues
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Equitable society
Jonathan Glancey asks to hear from architects who made it from the bottom rung. Before the war my father was a milkman. After it he was a bus conductor. We lived in Tottenham
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London calling
Paul Nicholson (Letters January 22) levels criticism at the entrant criteria of our competition Forgotten Spaces with Design for London and Qatari Diar
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Up and around
At the age of 12, I first became aware of buildings. I took to looking at their outward appearance, wondered how they came to be built and how they were used
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Correction: January 29 2010
The practice set up by former directors of John Clark Associates — which designed Huddersfield’s HD One scheme (News January 29) — is WBG Design, not WCB Design as reported.
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OpinionRude welcome
Judging only from the photographs of Christ’s College secondary school (Works January 22) it does seem, to my eye, and maybe to the eye of a child, to be oppressively unwelcoming and cheerless from the outside. Pity