All Letters to the editor articles – Page 67
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Opinion
Doom street
“Pot calling the kettle black” is the phrase that springs to mind when Iain Tuckett, group director of Coin Street Community Builders, levels criticism at the willingness of English Heritage to consider legal action over Doon Street (News October 3) and the expense this necessarily involves.
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OpinionHousing needs a total rethink
With the recession and a construction slowdown, we have the opportunity to pause and reflect on our ability to build homes to meet future needs (Debate October 10).
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Street wise
The £18 million Parliament Square scheme (Letters October 10) is dwarfed by the £30 million to be squandered at Kensington & Chelsea on pedestrianising Exhibition Road.
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OpinionOur carbuncles are too common
Amanda Baillieu observes that the architecture most people still get in their towns is, to paraphrase her inelegantly, crap (Leader October 3).
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Class struggle
Yasmin Shariff should ask herself why the ratio of women in law and medicine is at 50% (Debate October 3).
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Correction
Last week’s Carbuncle Cup story wrongly named Tektus Architects as the designer of Walton Street car park.
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Cracked record
I have been an architect for about 20 years (feels like more) and the debate about Arb, its purpose and its value for money remains unchanged.
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Critical eye
It was a pleasure to read that William Curtis (Letters September 26) regards Oscar Niemeyer as “a major figure of Latin American and world architecture”.
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OpinionExpensive & dull
If a brief were given to design the most boring and expensive public square, the recent proposal for Parliament Square would surely have been the result.
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Victorian values
Your survey of the legacy of past periods of housing (Front page October 3) provides some important lessons.
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Arb’s extra £8: worth it or not?
Can someone please tell me why it is worth my while remaining a member of Arb? With a 10% fee hike on the cards (News September 26), it reminds me of all the downsides to being a registered architect in this country.
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OpinionArb inflation
The £8 rise in the Arb retention fee actually equates exactly to an inflation-indexed rise for each of the past three years, up from £76.50 in 2006 to £86 for 2009.
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Tie breaker
Both correspondents missed the point in their answers to the question of architecture and the old boys’ club (Debate September 26).
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Waste free
It is right to raise the retention fee increase as a matter of concern but wrong to suggest that Arb is on a spending spree.
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On the job
Thanks for the half-term report (News Analysis September 19) and the headteacher’s note in the leader. I quite agree that it is among UK architects that perception of the RIBA is hard to shift.
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Playing politics
I was horrified to read in BD last week of Arb’s plans to examine the replacement of elected architect members with those appointed by the government.
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Sensible savings
Jack Pringle and Amanda Baillieu are critical of Arb for having substantial reserves in the bank.
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No style
With reference to your web video “Adam hails start of a classical revolution — traditional architecture prospers as New Palladians exhibition launches”, and several other recent articles in the architectural and national press, I would like to register my objection to the way the modern classical stylists have started appropriating ...
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OpinionBook misquoted?
In his review of Styliane Philippou’s Oscar Niemeyer: Curves of Irreverence (Culture September 12), Richard Weston apparently follows Philippou’s lead in lumping me together with “detractors” of the Brasilian architect.
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OpinionCabe criteria need quality too
Following my letter (September 12) about Cabe criteria, I should like to point out two puzzling contradictions in last week’s Opinion piece by Cabe deputy chairman Paul Morrell.