All Letters to the editor articles – Page 60
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Opinion
Tense sense
I wonder whether you could exert some grammatical influence over your columnist Owen Hatherley? His otherwise thoughtful article on Milton Keynes (Urban trawl March 6) uses that creeping colloquialism: “we find two men and a dog sat outside”.
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Access denied?
I wonder if the Quarterhouse arts venue (Works February 27) has had an access audit undertaken?
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All in the name
I do not support protection of function. Even in Europe, this does not apply to small projects
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OpinionStop PFI cash going to banks
Given that Labour’s craven worship of bankers has dropped us so completely in the poo, it is extraordinary that we continue with the PPP/PFI “supertanker” that puts the provision of our public buildings in bankers’ hands (News March 6)
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Bridge of sighs
I read with extreme sadness about the setback for Thomas Heatherwick’s brilliant bridge design for King’s Cross (News March 6). What is £7.5 million to pay for excellence in the present climate, when a banker is rewarded for his mistakes with £20 million in public money to play golf in ...
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Time to educate
Over the past 15 years, I have delivered many seminars to the public, which often does not understand that being an “architectural designer” is not the same thing.
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Raise your game
In response to Andrew Black (Letters February 27) and his apparent concern for the work being done by architectural consultants/ designers, are we to believe that only part III RIBA architects are qualified to design buildings?
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OpinionHorse sense
Further to Jonathan’s Glancey’s article (February 20) regarding the expense of Mark Wallinger’s White Horse at Ebbsfleet, there is a simple solution.
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BSF is working
Your report “Cabe says half school designs aren’t good enough” (February 20) claimed MPs are concerned that plans for a new minimum design standard to ensure only the best designs get off the drawing board and into construction will slow delivery of this unprecedented programme.
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Royal dissent
Although, thank goodness, not a disaster of the magnitude of the Diana Memorial Fountain in Hyde Park, illustrations of the opening ceremony of the Queen Mother memorial leave me disappointed.
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OpinionHair today...
I was startled to see my photograph in your Archive last week, sitting with Robin Spence and Richard Holden, dated 1982.
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Hidden powers
Three architectural practices are in both the “good” and “not yet good enough” columns of Cabe’s school league table.
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OpinionStandards, not title, matter
The debate over protection of title (Debate February 27) re-ignites every time the industry goes into recession and we architects start to feel the pinch of competition from each other and those we like to call “unqualified”.
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What’s in a name
Amanda Baillieu is absolutely right, the title “architect” can never be protected, nor should it be.
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Protection, please
Small and medium-sized local practices are inevitably in competition with unqualified and often uninsured “architectural consultants” because of the size and nature of much of their work.
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Self-defence
Arb and the RIBA should lobby for legislation that would require an architect to validate and endorse every planning application before it is submitted to the local authority. This would be in line with other EU countries.
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Good for Arb
Sorry, I don’t agree with your otherwise excellent editor on protection of title
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OpinionArchitects must protect title
Members of the public have little concept of what an architect actually is and generally refer to non-architects as architects, often believing they have employed an architect
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Why we belong
Protection of title was discussed at length many years ago and the issue upheld as important for the general public as well as architects