All Letters to the editor articles – Page 55
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OpinionA deficiency of democracy
I disagree strongly with your Leader (June 19). Surely the Qataris bought the Chelsea Barracks site first, with a view to obtaining a planning permission, and then second making a lot of money selling off their prestigious apartments.
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It’s an imposition
The first two objections to the Rogers Stirk Harbour scheme put forward by the Chelsea Barracks Action Group are that the scheme is too high and too dense
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Shape shifter
Jonathan Glancey (June 19) seems to be perpetuating an urban myth. Does he really believe the plan of the NatWest Tower was based on the NatWest logo?
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Help us fight fees
In response to the mass email issued by Sunand Prasad (News page 6), if the RIBA wishes to help smaller firms of architects and sole practitioners deal with the perpetual expectancy to carry out work on spec and partake in fee bidding, it should do something a bit more robust ...
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Unfair advantage
Richard Rogers’ call for a national inquiry into the prince’s constitutional role should be welcomed
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Bonny prince
I work with communities where the planners, architects and corporations they represent are riding roughshod over livelihoods and treasured environments
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OpinionRally to Rogers
It’s with no surprise that we read the people’s architect Prince Charles is single-handedly able to alter the course of one of the most important projects in London this decade
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OpinionWe can’t all run back to daddy
Recently your magazine, to my despair, has highlighted the snobbery of the architectural world (News June 12)
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Waking the dead
Owen Hatherley (Opinion June 22) notes that sobriety and abstraction are fashionable virtues for memorials but architects often seem to have problems distinguishing between the zeitgeist and a rather more holistic and historical attitude towards sculpture and memorials
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Stuck on style
The discussion about a suitable architectural form for the expansion of Oxford University (Leader June 5) steps once again into the modernism versus traditionalism debate, which springs up in all historic and conservation environments
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Correction: 12.06.2009
Last week’s news story “RIBA plans summit with shadow cabinet” incorrectly said that the RIBA’s European Election manifesto called for a reduction of the minimum duration of architectural studies from five years to four.
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Bad rap for Wrap
I was surprised to read your article about Wrap (News June 5) which said that no architects had yet signed up to its call to reduce waste levels at design stage
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OpinionBaffled by Bury
Emily Greeves’ review of Studio MGM’s housing scheme in Bury St Edmunds (Works May 29) says the “module of the frame describes the measure of the rooms inside” but it clearly does not if the floor plan is correct
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OpinionBeware theme park pastiche
Oxford University has a great opportunity to make a significant addition to contemporary architectural culture (News June 5)
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Cul-de-sac cure
In her thought-stimulating article, Carolyn Steel (Opinion June 5) does not mention the basic general objection to massive development in the Thames Gateway
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Trust is robust
I would like to make it clear that your leader on the unfortunate collapse of the Civic Trust (May 29) was referring to the “Southern English” Civic Trust
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Arb and illusion
An odd choice for the “no” corner (Debate May 29): Frank Duffy, who, it is believed, was implicated in the disastrous sacrifice of dear Arcuk on the altar of just another New Labour quango: Arb