All Letters to the editor articles – Page 74
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OpinionStaying power
Perhaps the question raised in your news story should be not so much: “Why are the Australians going home and leaving us in the lurch?” but rather: “Why are we reliant on Australians in the first place, and what can we do to encourage them to stay?”
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Contracts cost
Your coverage of the RIBA and ACA row over forms of contract (News May 9), makes some excellent points but fails to note the issue of cost.
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OpinionCreativity is part of sustainability
Pooran Desai’s excellent contribution to your debate on sustainability (May 9) was concise and clear. Designing a building that requires minimum energy, water, and damage to the environment while giving maximum comfort and a more “natural” ambience is obviously creative. If journo-miserablist Austin Williams wants to attack the factors ...
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Reference points
Three points in Ellis Woodman’s review of Corpus Christi’s new Taylor Library (Works May 16) need clarification.
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Glancey’s blow
Jonathan Glancey’s comment (April 25) that “no amount of special pleading will make supermarkets physically attractive” is so apt for us in St Albans.
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Chinese check
I read your leader on the Chinatown revolution (May 2) with dismay. There seem to be conflicting messages these days about how a multiethnic country should move ahead.
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First choice
Following the RIBA/ACA failure to agree on forms of contract (News May 9), small and young practices would benefit from professional institutions giving them free and accessible education on standardised services agreements.
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Not for Cotton
Crikey, I seem to have really wound up Mark Cotton with what I thought were fairly innocuous responses to Irena Bauman’s book (Letters May 9).
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OpinionSchool design does matter
You probably can’t make a good school out of wonderful buildings and poor teachers (Opinion May 9). You probably can make a good school out of wonderful teachers and poor buildings. But the link between building design and educational performance is real, and teachers as well as architects make this ...
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Light fantastic
I agree that rebuilding a school will not necessarily make any difference to its performance. However, having worked on school design for 17 years, I can say that in certain situations, a better design can have an effect.
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Backwards step
Gareth Hoskins’ pavilion for Scotland’s Venice Biennale (News May 2) doesn’t need to comply with any regulations but could have entered into the spirit of inclusive access.
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OpinionHappiness is not being patronised
I have just settled down following a busy week with a glass of white wine and this week’s copy of BD (News May 2).
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It's a bit rich
It has long been my belief that neither I nor any other director of this practice should hold any financial equity in the business.
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Crying shame
As ever, Alan Powers captures the moment perfectly — the Hayward was openly and almost universally reviled (Culture May 2).
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Power struggle
I was surprised to read that a CHP plant is to be installed at Transport for London’s Palestra building in Blackfriars Road (News May 2).
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Press revelation
Some of the architects previously employed by RMJM to work on the Scottish Parliament project appear to be sensitive flowers if the recent correspondence from John Kinsley and Gordon McGregor (Letters passim) is anything to go by.
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OpinionAfter Robin Hood Gardens: help Bishopsfield too
A letter to BD from Bishopsfield residents group highlights the threat to Neylan and Ungless's 1960's estate
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Liverpool cares
In your front page story “EH acts to save historic buildings in Liverpool” (News March 20), you write that English Heritage has “toughened its stance in recent months”, and that Liverpool has been “shamed into action”.