All Letters to the editor articles – Page 22
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OpinionMissing the point of parks
Giles Dolphin, assistant director of planning for the Greater London Authority, writing in defence of One Hyde Park (Letters September 16) stated that the building: “if visible above the trees would have improved views from Hyde Park on account of its architectural excellence”.
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OpinionRykwert needs no more gilding
Joseph Rykwert’s Chelsea housing is well saved, but using it to prove that he can design as well as think (“Top names back Rykwert for medal”, News September 23) does not enhance his claim for the RIBA Gold Medal.
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OpinionStirling decision stuck in the past
How disappointing it was to see Zaha Hadid’s Evelyn Grace Academy win this year’s Stirling Prize.
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OpinionIt's time to stop sizing up the competition
I joined my first firm in 1969 when it had five people.
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The birth of the Memphis Group?
May I claim, a little shamefacedly — like Spike Milligan on his part in Hitler’s downfall — my place at the origins of postmodernism?
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True meaning of sustainability
Richard Rogers’ objection to the planning bill (“Rogers ready to fight planning bill in Lords” News September 23) is absolutely right.
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Trusts can solve listings threat
One interesting solution to the reported threat to thousands of listed buildings (“New risk to listed buildings” News September 23) might be to start handing over ownership to community trusts.
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Planning reform must lift housebuilding standards
The RIBA’s discussion over housing space standards will not improve the standard of housebuilding (“Architects pan RIBA’s home space campaign” News September 23).
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OpinionStratford inherits dystopian vision
Oliver Wainwright is rightly critical of the appalling developments in Stratford’s High Street (Buildings September 23).
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Rhowbotham's view is academic
Kevin Rhowbotham (Debate, September 23) is subject to a long standing trend where insecurity in academies makes professors position themselves as righteous moralists fighting for higher ideals against the dark outside world. Read Hermann Hesse’s The Glass Bead Game.
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OpinionRed tape strangles creativity in house design
The construction industry is burdened with an array of regulation and red tape.
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Planning reform threatens quality
I fear that Anne Power is absolutely right (“Planning policy risks creating city ghettos” News September 16): the only reason most developers seek real architectural talent is when they need to get a tricky scheme through the planning system.
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RIBA is right to raise space issue
It’s good that the RIBA has raised the issue of space standards - such an important subject in housing and yet almost completely neglected by the mainstream press (which I think must be fearful of losing the advertising custom of the volume housebuilders who flood their property pages).
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OpinionGive Aberdeen's gardens a chance
It was really disappointing to read, at the end of Owen Hatherley’s otherwise perceptive article on Aberdeen (Urban Trawl September 16), the uninformed judgment on Union Terrace Gardens.
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Time for RIBA to name and shame
The Case for Space campaign (“RIBA launches housing space standards campaign”, bdonline September 14) is a welcome move.
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OpinionStirling etched on the memory
Pilgrims round Stirling & Gowan’s Leicester gem did not only include architects (Letters September 9).
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OpinionCut paperwork not the policy
Current planning policy is certainly over-verbose but appropriate in many ways (“Osborne and Pickles pledge to press on with planning changes” bdonline September 5).
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OpinionRSHP’s One Hyde Park is a credit not a carbuncle
You’ve got it wrong again. In your report on One Hyde Park’s candidacy for the 2011 Carbuncle Cup, you write that “The mayor’s planners, headed by Giles Dolphin, must carry particular blame.”
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Photographers have no agenda
Perhaps the comfort that comes with success has distanced Tim Soar from the reality of the amateur (“Photographers need perspective”, Letters September 2).