All Letters to the editor articles – Page 53
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Opinion
Barracks battle
While I sympathise with RSHP’s difficulties over the Chelsea Barracks scheme, aren’t we fighting the wrong battle with the wrong person in calling for a boycott?
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OpinionCapturing the end of an era
Only a small part of Bill Mitchell’s article is correct (Opinion July 24). The Kodachrome process was largely unknown in England until the late 1940s — most of the first colour images of England were taken by American servicemen or by expensive fashion magazines
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Clarification
In our story “Adjaye brought to brink of insolvency” (News July 24) we quoted RIBA Director of Professional Services Richard Brindley as saying that “Ojeu rules for all public contracts say that bidders can’t be in any form of insolvency”
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Opinion
Doublethink
The proposition at the epicentre of modernist architecture is that, to be worthy, a design should reflect its time, its zeitgeist
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Oakus pocus
So what exactly is so transformatory about Kevin McCloud’s new development (News July 24)?
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Tipping point
The contrast between BD articles “Adjaye brought to brink of insolvency” and “Gimme shelter” (News & Works July 24) could hardly have illustrated better the tipping point between the old world and the new order at which architecture finds itself
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OpinionTrue vision
David Nixon’s article (News Analysis July 17) is not only well informed and relevant, but inserts a recent and precious vision of the future by Jan Kaplicky
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OpinionRIBA active on climate change
I am happy to tell David Nixon (News Analysis July 17) that the RIBA has been anything but waiting for the government to tell it what to do on climate change: the opposite in fact, with some impact
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Opinion
Brent not broken
Barnet Council has neither “stopped” not “halted” the application to regenerate Brent Cross and Cricklewood; we have decided to consider it in the autumn rather than the summer
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Opinion
Tower fire safety
Last week’s letters in BD concerning the tragic fire at Lakanal House, Camberwell, raised some points about the need to be vigilant about the maintenance of standards throughout the lives of tower blocks
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Opinion
Kicked in the ribs
I am left dumbfounded, no, actually I’m speechless and downright bloody angry, at our professional body’s decision to invite the Chinese-based visualisation company Crystal to sponsor the Stirling Prize, and that with our government’s help it has won the commission to produce the visuals for London 2012
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Opinion
Pencil pusher
Given a total outlay of £1 billion regenerating Ipswich, one might have expected a more exciting and, frankly, competent “first image” of the £8.9 million Jerwood DanceHouse, filling almost half of page 3 in last week’s BD
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Opinion
Space is the place
The introduction by the London Mayor of minimum space standards for housing (News July 9) will please some and dismay others
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OpinionRight, said Saïd
The fact that one of our most generous benefactors is working with us to get value for money is hardly a “blow” for Oxford University (News July 17)
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Opinion
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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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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Opinion
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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OpinionFountain of truth
Who can say they are not surprised to see architects vying for the Chelsea Barracks scheme?
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Opinion
Visual impact
RE: Your story “RIBA’s choice of Stirling sponsor ‘undermines UK firms’”, News July 10
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Opinion
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 ...