All Letters to the editor articles – Page 71
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Cunning plan
In the light of the RIBA report on planning, is it time to run a regular feature on planning nightmares — nominate your worst local planning authority and so on.
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Unkind words
Further to your leader (July 18) on RMJM’s £1 million support package to encourage more youngsters from black and ethnic minorities into architecture, the statistic that only 2% of practising architects in Britain are non-white is a shocking indictment of our industry and possibly makes it the last bastion of ...
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OpinionBlame it on the Arts Council
Ellis Woodman’s review of The Public in West Bromwich (Works July 4) fails to appreciate the main aspiration of the project: digital art and art in general as a catalyst for economic, urban and cultural regeneration.
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OpinionUnfit objection
In 2004 English Heritage failed to list to list the much missed Tricorn Centre in Portsmouth, designed in 1962 by the Owen Luder Partnership, using the same “not fit for purpose” argument as it employed on Robin Hood Gardens (News July 4).
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PM’s questions
News that Boris Johnson is to reinstate Parker Morris housing space standards in London (News July 4) is welcome.
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Us and them
Abe Hayeem (Letters July 11) would have liked the UIA to “censure” the Israel Institute of Architects at Turin, drawing odious comparisons with Mugabe.
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Value added
I see this year’s crop of AA students have designed “Swoosh” to grace Bedford Square.
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Social contract
In a 1974 article in Architectural Design entitled The violent consumer, Alison Smithson queried the wisdom of basing socialist ideals on the values of the English middle class. Do we have a choice?
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Poor defence
BD’s increasingly frantic campaign to halt the demolition of Robin Hood Gardens does a disservice to the reputation of architects in the eyes of the public, which sees it as the archetypal 1960s ugly concrete monstrosity.
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OpinionParker Morris needs updating
Three cheers for “Boris pledges to reinstate Parker Morris standards” (News June 27).
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Slow motion
The failure of International Union of Architects’ (UIA) representatives to propose a motion to censure Israel for breaches of its professional and ethical charter, and the country’s well documented flouting of international law is like Africa’s reluctance to criticise Mugabe.
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Out of touch
RIBA president Sunand Prasad and the architectural elite, including BD, have again shown themselves to be out of touch with a significant proportion of the RIBA and Arb membership, as well as an overwhelming majority of the British public, in their continuing campaign to have Robin Hood Gardens listed (News ...
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Tell your story
Since St Christopher’s Hospice opened in Sydenham in 1967, more than 250 others have been established. Some claim the modern hospice is a new building type.
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In the swing
Your report (News July 4) on the RIBA Trust/Intelligence2 Debate event which proposed “modern architecture is still all glass stumps are carbuncles” did not record the real point in the voting.
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Blistering attack
Robin Hood Gardens (Competition June 27) — 10 reasons to demolish it, more like. What a load of ludicrous “architecting”.
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OpinionBrum libraries: a tale of neglect
I find Clive Dutton’s comments (News June 27) about the Birmingham Central Library building being “defective” rather rich.
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Missing the bus
We agree with many of Deyan Sudjic and Lorraine Gamman’s points on the difficulty of designing a bus shelter (Debate June 20) — it is a surprisingly tough brief.
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Letters of credit
I was pleased to see BD publish Richard MacCormac’s correspondence with the BBC (News June 20), but disappointed that your editorial was so negative about the principled line MacCormac took.
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Happy partner
BD’s story on the BRE innovation park (News June 27) could be incorrectly read to imply that English Partnerships is a critic of BRE.