All Letters to the editor articles – Page 78
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Opinion
Threat to Ealing
The criticisms made by Simon Jenkins last week at the RTPI (News February 22) are illustrated perfectly by the proposals to redevelop a major part of Ealing’s town centre.
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OpinionListing can fail
I wish I could share your optimism over the effectiveness of listing to protect post-war buildings (News February 22).
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My kind of town
I would be interested to know, according to Simon Jenkins, where in the UK the planning system is run by architects and the construction industry as I would consider relocating to this area.
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OpinionYou can’t simply wave a wand
It is clear Network Rail bosses know nothing about the procurement of architecture (Stars compete to bring ‘magic’ to New Street station, News February 15), while the RIBA should be ashamed of itself for supporting this competition.
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Pops at China
Daniel Libeskind’s call for architects to take an “ethical stance” places him firmly with the oh-so-ethical Hollywood set, where having a pop at China seems to have become highly fashionable.
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Universal ethics
Now that the debate on ethics has opened up (News February 15), we wish to commend those architects whose courageous stand on such an issue has been expressed in your paper.
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OpinionFit only for malls
Jonathan Glancey’s comments on the glut of recent figurative monuments (February 15) are timely. London, in particular, is being littered with third-rate “public art”.
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Flaws in strategy
The whole New Street project is fundamentally flawed because it only addresses passenger congestion at the station.
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Meet the Fokkers
Like Terry Farrell, I too have a Fokker DR1 model hanging over my desk in the office (Culture February 15).
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Scrub up nicely
Dobson’s Newcastle Central, Brunel’s Paddington, not to mention York, Darlington, Manchester Piccadilly, Liverpool Lime Street, London’s Waterloo, Liverpool Street & Victoria, Brighton, Bristol Temple Meads, Glasgow Queen Street, the threatened shed at London Bridge — I could go on — all capture the drama of arrival and power of the ...
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OpinionAltered’s fate
I enjoyed the review of Fred Scott’s book On Altering Architecture (Culture February 8).
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Cold comfort
The detailing around the windows on O’Donnell & Tuomey’s Killiney house (Works February 8) shows appalling attention to cold bridging.
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Corrections
In last week’s First Look project, we misspelt the name of the practice Inglis Badrashi Loddo Architects.
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OpinionEthics covers more than Israel
You publish two revealing letters (February 8) on the subject of ethics.
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Disengaged
With reference to Rick Mather’s quote (News February 8), the next time I admire the view from my window or take the dogs for a walk, I must remind myself that what I’m really doing is “engaging with the landscape”.
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Pound stretcher
So the expenses of Arb board members have reached £94,000 a year (News February 8) — so what?
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Squaring up
It is a pity that Richard Rogers found it necessary to intervene (News February 8) in the selection of the team to carry out the preliminary ideas for the part-pedestrianisation of Parliament Square.
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It’s a belly flop...
From the way the ODA organised the Aquatics Centre project, there was a terrible inevitability about the dire final design (News February 1).
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OpinionOnce bitten...
We note with interest your Archive story (February 1) relating to our design for a lion’s cage.
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OpinionEthics: what can you change?
Those of us who appealed to our fellow architects in Israel not to collude in constructing illegal settlements in the occupied territories were attacked — as you said — for not publicly taking an ethical stance in arguably more unjust situations (Leader January 25).