All Letters to the editor articles – Page 18
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OpinionWill Sainsbury's duck the issue?
In their book Learning from Las Vegas, Venturi, Scott Brown and Izenour set up a simple building classification system: the “duck” (the building’s useable space is secondary to its symbolic form) and the “decorated shed” (the building’s form responds to its requirements and decoration is independently applied to it).
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Olympic record in question
David Bonnett claims the London Olympic Village is the “inclusive first” with regard to access for disabled users (Letters February 17).
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OpinionOlympic Village is inclusive first
Without exception, the 2,500-plus flats in the development are all designed to Lifetime Home standards, which allow flexibility for change, and around 10% of units are designed to meet the needs of wheelchair users.This means a wheelchair user can live in a range of flat types on more or less ...
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Vote for Assael for Arb’s board
We have endorsed John Assael for election to the board of Arb as an independent and tenacious candidate with a successful track record in getting things done, and a stated agenda for change.
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False reports of death in Venice
In your curiously anonymous profile of Jeremy Till (“Manning the Barricades” February 10), his 2006 Venice Biennale was yet again carelessly “savaged”.
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OpinionExhibition Road needs more trees
If ever there was an opportunity missed to plant proper trees in a London street, Exhibition Road was it (Buildings February 3). It will not, I hope, be taken by future designers of streetscapes as a good example of urban landscape architecture.
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Breeam holds us all to ransom
The biggest challenge to the design of energy-efficient buildings in the UK is the monopoly that created and guards the criteria for their assessment (Leader February 3).
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OpinionExhibition Road: a different view
Ellis Woodman’s extraordinarily uncritical piece about the £25 million “shared-space” makeover of Exhibition Road (“Streets ahead” February 3) seems to accept without question the functional principles that underpin the scheme and the aesthetic outcome.
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Rogers could learn from us
In light of his calls for educational reform (News February 3), Richard Rogers should know that since 2000 UWE Bristol has offered a joint RIBA/RTPI-validated architecture and planning BA.
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OpinionThe real picture in Rome
Your piece on the Olympic Village Rome (Inspiration February 3) must be a spoof unless those of us who have been trying to make better places for the last decades have been completely misguided.
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Bad managers are a danger
Architecture is, to its discredit, plagued by poor business managers.
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OpinionPawson’s Design Museum interior strikes right note
John Pawson’s design for the new Design Museum (News January 27) looks just fine to me.
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Fewer students means elitism
A drop in architectural student numbers cannot ever be “a good thing” (Debate January 13).
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Venice Takeaway is a collaborative project
We’d like to clarify a few points about our proposal for the British Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale
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Taylor's castles in the air
When I was a student we talked about setting up practices like the one Taylor is proposing (“Piers Taylor quits Mitchell Taylor Workshop” bdonline January 19).
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Keep the space statistics coming
It was good to see in your coverage of Haworth Tompkins admirably restrained housing for Peabody (Buildings January 20) that you included both legible plan types and that you quoted floor areas for individual dwelling types (even though you credited some with an extra bedroom!).
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The social costs of Robin Hood
This is not simply about a philistine council wanting to bulldoze an icon out of anti-brutalist sentiment.
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Fewer jobs for the girls
Amanda Baillieu says women prefer to design schools (Leader January 20) and that’s one reason they are losing their jobs faster than men.
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OpinionDon’t miss out on the fun of being an architect
Regarding last week’s Debate about the drop in applications to study architecture, my position would be a combination of the two.