All Letters to the editor articles – Page 70
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Opinion
Bad education
As Noel Farrer says, landscape quality is not embedded in the employer’s requirements before the contract is let (News August 1).
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OpinionLukewarm Bath
The Bath eco-home by ZedFactory (First Look August 1) comes with all the low-energy bells and whistles one should be seen with, but can a 700sq m family home really be called sustainable?
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Planning blight
As chair of the Association of Consultant Architects’ planning group, ACA president Brian Waters has asked me to clarify his Debate piece (August 1).
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Waking the dead
Sue Roaf makes reference to the Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists and comments made at the Oxford Conference (Letters August 1).
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Opinion
Planning to fail
In response to Phil Kirby’s defence of planning services (Debate August 1), most applications are not dealt with by elected representatives but farmed out to the “private sector” in the form of paid planning officers making decisions under delegated powers.
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Opinion
Power of prayer
The apparent difficulty in finding a viable use for Battersea Power Station might be solved by resurrecting my 1990 scheme for a Metropolitan Mosque.
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Tackle turnout
Congratulations to Ruth Reed for becoming the first woman president of the RIBA.
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Battersea failure
Leaving aside the complete inappropriateness of the Viñoly proposals for Battersea Power Station (News July 18), the predominate failure, as with all predecessors, is that none have actually addressed a solution for the use of the power station itself.
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OpinionA new climate for schools?
Sunand Prasad is right (News July 25). The lack of any real examination, as he states, of “normal life” from our schools of architecture is I agree “intellectual dereliction”.
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Opinion
Square dance
I disagree with the comments from the members of the House of Lords about Parliament Square (News July 18).
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Think differently
It is disappointing that your headline does not reflect the real substance of Sunand Prasad’s address.
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Positive focus
I was a little surprised at your selective reporting on English Heritage’s formal response to RMJM’s planning application for the new headquarters for City of York Council (News July 18).
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Town and gown
A disappointing statement from the RIBA president at the Oxford Conference echoed an age-old argument between practice and education.
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Opinion
Overexposed
Intriguing that Gillespie, Kidd & Coia was included as a culprit in Tony Leitch’s rather excitable critique of the “raw concrete aesthetic” of sixties buildings (Letters July 25).
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Opinion
Broken greens
While it is encouraging to see the industry delivering more sustainable buildings, confusion exists over how green building credentials are rated.
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Brutal truth
Lurking beneath Celia Clarke’s plea to reuse buildings (Letters July 18) was yet another cry for more respect for sixties buildings by exponents such as Gillespie Kidd & Coia, Owen Luder, Chalk Herron and others whose raw concrete aesthetic set up a public distaste for we architects.
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OpinionSkills for BSF schools are here
“Architects blamed for unsustainable schools” shouts your headline (News July 18)
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Opinion
Concrete division
Anne Power (Opinion July 4) gives a clear, intelligent summary of the issues surrounding post-war public housing — thought-provoking and so relevant!