All Letters to the editor articles – Page 75
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Opinion
Great teamwork
Peter Wilson (Letters April 25) quotes Lord Fraser in support of your claim that the Scottish Parliament Team was dysfunctional and that this added to costs and delays.
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Opinion
Partners, please
Your report “Gateway needs single delivery body, say experts” (News April 25), completely misrepresents my views about the delivery of the Thames Gateway project.
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Poor plot
Last month’s Housing issue of BD Magazine includes features on The Bridge (multi-material, multicoloured housing for people and birds, insufficient space for essential means of transport), Silvertown (greeny, gardeny, dusty, debris-ridden cladding needs replacement in 25 years), and Evelyn Road (lack of ventilation, exterior design badly affects internal function).
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Tesco's threat
Tesco may not yet match Wal-Mart in the US for trampling on community life in the cause of “retail rationalisation” but Jonathan Glancey (April 25) rightly highlights its persistent determination to ruin Hadleigh in Suffolk.
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OpinionWayne's a winner
Judging by April’s BD Magazine on housing, Wayne Hemingway’s mission to revitalise the design quality of new UK housing goes from strength to strength.
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Opinion
Drawing a line
Richard Brindley’s response to the question “Plan drawers are undermining us” (Practice April 3) just shows how out of touch the RIBA has become.
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OpinionParis sees RHG as a star exhibit
BD readers backing the Robin Hood Gardens campaign may be interested — but not surprised — to learn that while the minister for culture (sic) and Tower Hamlets’ Council are conspiring to demolish the Smithsons’ estate, in Paris it is now the star exhibit of a large retrospective show on ...
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OpinionOut of the loop
“Good” can also come out of the dodgy wording of the General Permitted Developments Order (“Mockery of the planning system” Letters April 18).
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Opinion
Word perfect
The rewriting of history is always interesting, but John Kinsley protests too much (Letters April 18) when seeking to chastise BD for describing the EMBT/RMJM joint venture on the Scottish Parliament building as dysfunctional.
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OpinionSweat and tears
I was startled to see the photo used to illustrate the Debate on April 18. Captioned “Team working at Bennetts Associates”, it looked more like a call centre or dealing room.
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Opinion
Be transparent
Further to Renzo Piano’s comments on the RIBA/Home Office workshops (News April 18), it has been erroneously reported that these and guidance encourage the creation of no-go urban fortresses.
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Opinion
Windsor abuses
Marcus Fairs’ experience (Opinion April 11) is nothing! The problem with unapproved developments being built is becoming endemic and the failure to enforce unpalatable conditions is rife.
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Not a-peeling
More silly iconic architecture promoted on the front page of your paper (April 11), this time from Foster & Partners.
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Opinion
Chief concerns
I was a little disturbed by the proposal for a “chief architect” as reported in BD (News April 11) and in particular by the comparison with other sectors — those with a chief medical officer or chief scientist, for example.
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Opinion
Correction
Marks Barfield’s Michael Tippett School in south London (News April 11) cost £7.6 million, not £25 million as stated.
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Opinion
Question of cost
I wish to clear up any confusion derived from the selective references you make to my letter of reply to Lord Rogers of Riverside about the costing of the Robin Hood Gardens refurbishment (bdonline April 11).
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Opinion
We do declare
In your story about RIBA declarations (News April 11) you chose not to include a key point about the RIBA, so here it is:
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Opinion
Good relations
As project architect of the RMJM half of the EMBT/RMJM joint venture partnership on the Scottish Parliament building, I cannot concur with your statement that our relationship with EMBT was “dysfunctional” (News March 28).
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OpinionMockery of the planning system
I was interested in Marcus Fairs’ comments (Opinion, April 4) and in the letters in response. Hackney is not alone in falling victim to the “tricky developer” and the apparent failings of the planning and building control systems to control “unauthorised development”.
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OpinionA concrete proposal
After attending Rick Mather’s Concrete Elegance talk on his work at Eastbourne at the Building Centre in London, I couldn’t help but feel that the Concrete Centre may be barking up the wrong tree, because events like this are pitched to architects, not contractors — who are arguably the main ...