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Goodbye to Berlin
“Welcome to Germany”... “Berlin Boost” (Letters October 23) — the navel-gazers put one in mind of the incomparable Mort Sahl, when contemplating the build quality of the VW Beetle: “How did they lose?”
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Still badly paid
The RIBA needs to be doing more to get a standard fee level agreed between architectural practices. This process should not involve clients at all
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OpinionGraphs belong to another era
I must admit I was surprised to learn that some practices still use the fee survey graph to calculate fees. Removing this from the RIBA A Client’s Guide to Engaging an Architect will surely be beneficial to architects and clients alike
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OpinionAD addendum
For the record, Monica Pidgeon (News: obituary September 25) didn’t publish Rem Koolhaas: that was Haig Beck in 1977, after she had left Architectural Design
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OpinionWelcome to Germany
I recently attended a splendid dinner in Berlin to celebrate the completion of David Chipperfield’s renovation of the Neues Museum.
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Food for thought
Having just returned from the Rotterdam Biennale, I can’t help but feel Oliver Wainwright’s write-up was a little harsh (Culture October 9)
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FO credentials
Your piece “Foreign Office U-turn over embassy costs” (News October 16) does not ring true in our experience
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Cockerell & bull
In the final episode of Kevin McCloud’s Grand Tour, earlier this month on Channel 4, I was distressed to hear McCloud attribute the design of St George’s Hall, in Liverpool, to Charles R Cockerell
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Berlin boost
I was passing through Berlin last week with three hours to spare and walked over to see the Neues Museum.
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Biting back
In Andrew Mead’s rather sour review of my new book, The Freedoms of Suburbia (Culture October 2), he seems to be still brooding — 40 years on — about the anarcho-libertarian Non-Plan special issue of New Society magazine, which I wrote with Reyner Banham, Peter Hall and Cedric Price in ...
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Alive and well
Please apprise Jonathan Glancey (October 16) of the fact that Civic Trust Awards are still going ahead and that there are a lot more this year
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OpinionBetter training, better decisions
It may well be that many councillors who sit on planning committees have no prior knowledge or training in any aspect of the built environment and are ill equipped to pass judgment on schemes that come before them
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OpinionVictim of success
It was sobering that the only attractive illustration in your article on the West Riding (Urban Trawl October 2) was Frank Matcham’s restored County Arcade in Leeds
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Failing to foster
For institutional and regulatory reasons, and with some important exceptions, the huge creative opportunity presented by the games has not been adequately used to harness and promote young and emerging design talent.
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CPD rules Europe
Paula Mendez (Letters October 2) is wrong to state that qualifying in Spain takes less time than in England.
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OpinionArched feat
Your coverage of the plan to rebuild the Euston Arch omits a key fact: the new arch is proposed in the wrong place (it was never in Euston Square but a couple of blocks to the north)
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Alsop sadness
You know you’ve hit rock bottom when your best option is to become part of the “world domination” team of RMJM (News October 2)
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Correction: 02 October 2009
Our review of Land Architecture People (Culture September 25) described co-curator Clare Melhuish as a critic
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OpinionDon't catch the British disease
Amanda Baillieu (Leader September 25) condemns Crossrail as a project “destined to go down as the bargain basement version of the hugely admired Jubilee Line extension”