All Opinion articles – Page 85
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Stand by RSHP
Two months ago, Sunand Prasad wrote to every RIBA member imploring them not to succumb to the pressure of recession by undercutting the fees and interests of fellow professionals
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Time for a review
The fire at Lakanal House in Camberwell is shocking. As someone involved in work to 1960s housing over 20 years, I would point out that while there have been numerous fires in tower blocks since the 1960s, most have been confined to a single flat, with perhaps minor damage to ...
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Visual impact
RE: Your story “RIBA’s choice of Stirling sponsor ‘undermines UK firms’”, News July 10
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OpinionFountain of truth
Who can say they are not surprised to see architects vying for the Chelsea Barracks scheme?
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Tower failures
The Camberwell fire (News July 10) raises two main points: first, the omission of the 900mm-high vertical and 600mm-wide fire breaks outlined in the London Building bylaws seems a major contribution
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OpinionTelling the truth about Chelsea
There has been a steady flow of misinformation about Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners’ approach to the design of the Chelsea Barracks proposal, particularly with regard to height and materials as well as local and statutory consultation
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Correction: July 17 2009
Last week’s front page story named Squint Opera among the British visualisation firms that had failed to win Olympic work
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Mersey unbeaten
In his paean of praise for Liverpool (Letters July 3), Robert MacDonald forgot to mention Everton Football Club (1878); and that Liverpool possesses, in St George’s Hall, arguably the finest 19th century building in the world
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It's a frame-up...
Is there really so little going on that you had to resort to a non-story about the LSC framework (News July 3)?
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OpinionFailing time test
DRMM’s Clapham primary school (Works July 3) “replacing unfortunate 1960s extensions” with an even more unfortunate 2000s extension, demonstrates how many architects have dismally failed to learn the lessons of recent history
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Correction
Flacq was accidentally left out of the list of architects involved in the winning bid to regenerate Canning Town (News July 3).
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OpinionNot so thrilled by car park
It is unfortunate that the undoubted aesthetic value of the “Get Carter” car park expounded by Owen Hatherley (Urban Trawl June 26) is not balanced by the also undoubted irrelevance to modern retail and the community who live and shop beneath its “dismally thrilling” concrete
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Recession aid
In response to your story on the RIBA’s services for members (News July 3) James Cooke and I provide the Managing in Recession service for RIBA
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OpinionLove Liverpool
Barbara Follett must have had her mind on something else when she opined that “Liverpool was something of a culture-free zone before the European Capital of Culture 2008” (Boots June 19)
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Hang on in there
I graduated with my part II in 1991 during the last recession and after a desperate couple of years of unemployment found work as a cleaner in order to support my family and regain some dignity
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Outside edge
I was delighted to read about excluded student Aaron Collins going on to win a place on Kingston’s architecture degree course and then a major national award (News June 26)
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Democracy myth
At the risk of prolonging the saga, I feel I have to respond to Stuart Heaton (Letters June 26)
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OpinionEngineering is the real cost
If good architects are appointed early enough and can develop new station concepts with clever engineers, then there is always additional “value” in the design and very often significant cost savings
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Bury disinterred
Martin O’Shea’s reassurance (Letters June 26) that plants will grow all over the new Studio MGM building in Bury St Edmunds brings to mind that old dictum of Frank Lloyd Wright: “Doctors can bury their mistakes. Architects can only plant vines”